【正文】 ity set out to investigate the origins of this effect. Dr. Sasaki knew the firstnight effect probably has something to do with how humans evolved. The puzzle was what benefit would be gained from it when performance might be affected the following day. She also knew from previous work conducted on birds and dolphins that these animals put half of their brains to sleep at a time so that they can rest while remaining alert enough to avoid predators (捕食者 ). This led her to wonder if people might be doing the same thing. To take a closer look, her team studied 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 reran the experiment while presenting the sleeping participants with a mix of regularly timed beeps (蜂鳴聲 ) 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 rerunning 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 pared 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 第二節(jié) 七選五 （共 5 小題；每小題 2 分，滿分 10 分）根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。 How to Love Dear Parents Even if you think that your parents are meanspirited(小心眼的 ) at times, loving your parents is a normal and fulfilling part of life. You love them for the fact that they created you, raised you, and are in part, a source of who you are. 36 . Tell them you love them every morning. A gentle good morning and I love you will warm a coldest heart. Remember that they brought you into this world. Without your parents, we might still wander at an unknown corner in an unknown world. Respect them more and cherish these moments. You can use these moments to learn from them, preparing yourself for when you39。s OK to get angry but angry actions don39。t get what you want or you have to clean. However, you had better remember they keep a roof over your head when it39。 A few months ago, I left my job as a program director. Ever since I was a little girl, I have been ___41___ about the different ways life is experienced on our pla. I wanted to turn that curiosity into a ___42___ job. A journalist was eager to give me a ___43___, but there was nothing concrete at that moment and I still needed more ine. One night, I sat at my puter __44___ at job postings. My heart ___45___ with every one I read. I was ___46___ with work that involved sitting in front of a puter. Frustrated, I ___47___ up and decided to clean the fridge. As I ___48___ the fridge, I thought, “That’s it! People do this to ma