It turns out that nodding off in class may not be such a bad idea after all, as a new study has shown that going to sleep shortly after learning new material is the best way to remember it.

According to the leader of the study, Jessica Payne, a psychologist at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, nodding off after learning something new is like “telling” the sleeping brain what to keep.

Along with her colleagues, she studied 207 students who habitually slept for at least six hours per night. Participants were assigned without any regular pattern to study declarative (陳述性的), semantically (語義上) related or unrelated word pairs at 9 a.m. or 9 p.m., and returned for testing 30 minutes, 12 hours or 24 hours later.

Declarative memory refers to the ability to consciously remember facts and events, and can be broken down into memory for events and memory for facts about the world. People use both types of memory every day --- recalling where we parked today or learning how a colleague prefers to be addressed.

At the 12-hour retest, memory overall was better following a night of sleep compared to a day of wakefulness.At the 24-hour retest, with all participants having received both a full night of sleep and a full day of wakefulness, participants’ memories were better when sleep occurred shortly after learning, rather than following a full day of wakefulness.

“Our study confirms that sleeping directly after learning something new is beneficial for memory. What's new about this study is that we tried to shine light on sleep's influence on both types of declarative memory by studying semantically unrelated and related word pairs,” Payne said.

“Since we found that sleeping soon after learning benefited both types of memory, this means that it would be a good thing to go over any information you need to remember just before going to bed. In some sense, you may be “telling” the sleeping brain what to consolidate (鞏固).”

68. What can we learn about the study from the text?

       A. It was lead by an Indian psychologist in the USA.

       B. It was done by Jessica Payne and her colleagues.

       C. More than three hundred students took part in it.

       D. Participants were divided into groups according to a special pattern.

69. According to the text, declarative memory ______.

       A. can be divided into two types         

       B. is rarely used in our daily life

       C. is unconscious but very useful

       D. may influence our sleep quality

70. What does the study want to show us?

       A. Why many students can’t stop themselves nodding off in class.

       B. How to remember information correctly.

       C. Sleeping directly after learning is good for our memory.

       D. We can still remember some information when we are sleeping.

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　　In people's minds, Beijing women are taller, bold, and uninhibited, while Shanghai women are smaller in figure, and always speak in a soft voice．The image(形象．)of Beijing women is usually bigger than Shanghai women's．However, it turns out to be just the other way round after I have worked in Beijing for some time．

　　Everybody goes Dutch in Shanghai; even at a grand party, but in Beijing it' s usually the men' s treat．And it is also impossible to invite a female friend who already has a boyfriend or a young married woman out, even if you promise to see her home that night,

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　　Many of my friend girls in Shanghai are office ladies with very high income．The tiredness of life cannot kill their pride in saying："I don't depend on any men．" Thus no men can command them, for example, to force them to come back home before 10 pm．Beijingers do not admire the Shanghai way of life, anyhow．How can a couple be addressed as "a couple" when they don't know where the other has been last night? They wondered．

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A．

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C．

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D．

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Beijing women are respected

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Beijing women lack independence

C．

Beijing men are generous

D．

Beijing men possess gentle manners

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[　　]

A．

often stay out late at night

B．

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are treated the same as Shanghai men

D．

enjoy no more freedom than the women

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Shanghai women could never understand why _________．

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Beijing women behave like that

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Beijing men behave like that

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Shanghai women don' t copy Beijing women

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At a reunion on Friday at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, Mia Diamond Funk Mia Hanying Ramirez shyly surveyed each other, then reached for each other’s hand.

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  C. the DNA of a biological parent is still missing

  D. one girl is born a week later than the other

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    1. A.
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    2. B.
      because of their physical similarities
    3. C.
      because their US parents suspected they were twins
    4. D.
      for no good reason
  2. 2.

    Why did the girls’ mothers meet on the Internet?

    1. A.
      To compare photographs of the two girls.
    2. B.
      To communicate with other people who had adopted children abroad.
    3. C.
      To test their suspicion.
    4. D.
      To exchange experiences on adopting children.
  3. 3.

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    1. A.
      DNA tests are still not accurate enough
    2. B.
      the two girls were born by different parents
    3. C.
      the DNA of a biological parent is still missing
    4. D.
      one girl is born a week later than the other
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    What would be the best title for the passage?

    1. A.
      Adopted Twins Reunited on Internet
    2. B.
      Adopted Twins Live happily in the US.
    3. C.
      Suspicion Turned into Reality
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      The Story of Adopted Twins and Their Parents

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