Scientists say they now have proof to support the old-fashioned advice that it’s best to sleep on a problem．They say sleep strengthens the memory and helps the brain organize the masses of information we receive each day．
The lead researcher Bob Stickgold at the Harvard Medical School said, “Sleep helps us draw rules from our experiences．It’s like knowing the difference between dogs and cats even if it’s hard to explain．”
The US research team studied how well students remembered connections between words and symbols, reports New Scientist．They compared how the students performed if they had had a sleep between seeing the words and having the test, and if they had not slept．They found that people were better able to remember lists of related words after a night’s sleep than after the same time spent awake during the day．They also found it easier to remember themes that the words had in common．But they forgot around one in four more themes if they had been awake．
Prof．John Groeger, of Survey University’s Sleep Research Centre, said, “People have been trying for years to find out what the purpose of sleep is, as we know that only certain parts of it have a restorative （促使康復(fù)的）value．”
“We form and store huge numbers of experiences in the head every day, and sleep seems to be the way the brain deals with them all．”
小題1:The phrase “to sleep on a problem” in Paragraph 1 most likely means “________”．
A．to pay full attention to a problem
B．to wait until the next day for a decision
C．to sleep to forget a problem
D．to have difficulty in sleeping
小題2:In the study by the US research team, students were asked to ________．
A．put together words of similar meanings
B．remember words and their meanings
C．show their knowledge of words
D．make up lists of related words
小題3:Which of the following may be easier to remember?
A．Themes learned right before the test．
B．Rules from personal experiences．
C．Words learned before a good sleep．
D．Ideas stored together in the brain．
小題4:What may be the importance of the research?
A．It shows that sleep may help us manage information．
B．It helps find out the common themes of words．
C．It tells us that more sleep can improve health．
D．It proves the value of old-fashioned advice．

小題1:B
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C．FCCD．federal regulators
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D．Parents should support their adult children when they are in trouble．
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Organizations like the Black Health Coalition and others have explained the safe way to co-sleep. While we understand those arguments, we also know that mistakes can happen and that it only takes one time for something to go terribly wrong. The risk outweighs the benefit.
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The Queen’s English is now sounding less upper-class, a scientific study of the Queen’s Christmas broadcasts has found. Researchers have studied each of her messages to the Commonwealth countries since 1952 to find out the change in her pronunciation from the noble Upper Received to the Standard Received.
Jonathan Harrington, a professor at Germany’s University of Munich, wanted to discover whether accent changes recorded over the past half century would take place within one person. “As far as I know, there just is nobody else for whom there is this sort of broadcast records,” he said.
He said the noble way of pronouncing vowels (元音) had gradually lost ground as the noble upper-class accent over the past years. “Her accent sounds slightly less noble than it did 50 years ago. But these are very, very small and slow changes that we don’t notice from year to year.”
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The results were published (發(fā)表) in the Journal of Phonetics.
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B．The Queen’s Christmas speeches on TV.
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D．The recent development of the English language.
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