四川省梓潼中学校2018届高考模拟检测（二）英语试题Word版含答案

35 healthy people as they slept in the unfamiliar environment of the university’s Department of Psychological Sciences. The participants each slept in the department for two nights and were carefully monitored with techniques that looked at the activity of their brains. Dr. Sasaki found, as expected, the participants slept less well on their first night than they did on their second, taking more than twice as long to fall asleep and sleeping less overall. During deep sleep, the participants’ brains behaved in a similar manner seen in birds and dolphins. On the first night only, the left hemispheres (半球) of their brains did not sleep nearly as deeply as their right hemispheres did.

Curious if the left hemispheres were indeed remaining awake to process information detected in the surrounding environment, Dr. Sasaki re-ran the experiment while presenting the sleeping participants with a mix of regularly timed beeps (蜂鸣声) of the same tone and irregular beeps of a different tone during the night. She worked out that, if the left hemisphere was staying alert to keep guard in a strange environment, then it would react to the irregular beeps by stirring people from sleep and would ignore the regularly timed ones. This is precisely what she found.

32. What do we learn about Dr. Yuka Sasaki doing her research?

A. She found birds and dolphins remain alert while asleep. B. She found birds and dolphins sleep in much the same way. C. She got some idea from previous studies on birds and dolphins. D. She conducted studies on birds’ and dolphins’ sleeping patterns. 33. What did Dr. Sasaki do when she first did her experiment?

A. She monitored the brain activity of participants sleeping in a new environment.

B. She recruited (招募) 35 participants from her Department of Psychological

Sciences.

C. She studied the differences between the two sides of participants’ brains. D. She tested her findings about birds and dolphins on human subjects.

34. What did Dr. Sasaki do when re-running her experiment?

A. She analyzed the negative effect of irregular tones on brains. B. She recorded participants’ adaptation to changed environment. C. She exposed her participants to two different stimuli (刺激物). D. She compared the responses of different participants.

35. What did Dr. Sasaki find about the participants in her experiment?

A. They tended to enjoy certain tones more than others. B. They tended to recognize irregular beeps as a threat. C. They felt sleepy when exposed to regular beeps. D. They differed in their tolerance of irregular tones.

第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

We’ve all made the excuses. But the successful ones are those who can kill the excuses like they are miserable maggots (蛆虫). 36 See the positive.

Excuses are usually made because we don’t feel like doing something-we’re stressing the negative. 37 And maintain a positive attitude, or you’ll never beat the excuses. Take responsibility.

Excuses are ways to get out of owning up to something. If we don’t have the time, money, equipment, etc., then it’s not our fault, right? Wrong. Take action and own the solution. 38

Just about every problem has a solution. Don’t have time? Start with just 5-10 minutes. Make the time. Wake earlier. Do it during lunch. Don’t have the energy? Do it when you have higher levels of energy. You’re smart. Figure out the solution. See your goal.

This is your motivation — your reason for doing it. Sure, you could just lay