No one knows for certain why people dream, but some dreams misht be connected to the mental processes that help us learn. In a recent study, scientists found a connection between nap-time (午睡時間) dreams and better memory in people who were learning a new skill.
“I was astonished by this finding,” Robert Stickgold told Science News. He is a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School who worked on the study of-how the brain and nervous system work, and cognitive studies look at how people learn and reason. So a cognitive neuroscientist may study the brain processes that help people learn.
In the study, 99 college students between the ages of 18 and 30 each spent an hour on a computer, trying to get through a virtual maze (虛擬迷宮). The maze was difficult, and the study participants had to start in a different place each time they tried - making it even more difficult. They were also told to find a particular picture of a tree and remember where it was.
For the first 90 minutes of a five-hour break, half of the particularity stayed awake and half were told to take a short nap. Participants who stayed awake were asked to describe their thoughts. Participants who took a nap were asked about their dreams before sleep and after steep - and they were awakened within a minute of sleep to describe their dreams.
About a dozen of the 50 people who slept said their dreams were connected to the maze. Some dreamed about the music that had been playing when they were working; others said they dreamed about seeing people in the maze. When these people tried the computer maze again, they were generally able to find the tree faster than before their naps. However, people who had other dreams, or people who didn’t take a nap, didn’t show the same improvement.
Stickgold suggests the dream itself doesn’t help a person learn - it’s the other way around.
小題1:It is a cognitive scientists job to study__     .
A．how people dream and learn
B．the structure of the nervous system
C．whether someone is reasonable
D．the process of understanding
小題2:The purpose of the study attended by 99 college students is to       .
A．find the hidden tree in the maze
B．test the design of a difficult virtual maze
C．train people’s memory
D．see how dreams and learning are connected
小題3:The better performance in working out the maze is connected with         .
A．how people dreamB．what people dream
C．when people dreamD．where people dream
小題4:The writer will probably continue to talk about            in the 6th paragraph.
A．how learning process caused the dream
B．how a dream helps a person learn
C．how dreams and learning influence each other
D．how to improve people’s memory

小題1:D
小題1:D
小題1:B
小題1:A 

小題1:D 第一題詢問認知學科學家的研究范圍，文中第二段有直接提到a cognitive neuroscientist may study the brain processes that help people learn，故選擇D
小題1:D 綜合推斷題。詢問文中的研究的目的是什么，由文章中對于參與者做夢和學習技能的能力分析可以得知研究的目的是分析做夢和學習的關(guān)系，故選擇D
小題1:B 細節(jié)題，詢問學習成果好壞與人們做夢的關(guān)系，文中倒數(shù)第二段提到However, people who had other dreams……didn’t show the same improvement，說明學習成果與人們做夢的內(nèi)容有關(guān)，故選擇B
小題1:A 由文章最后一段the dream itself doesn’t help a person learn - it’s the other way around得知作者的觀點是學習產(chǎn)生夢，所以可推測到他接下來將討論學習過程是如何導(dǎo)致夢的產(chǎn)生的，故選A
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