A special laboratory at the University of Chicago is busy only at night. It is a dream laboratory where researchers are at work studying dreamers. Their findings have discovered that everyone dreams from three to seven times a night, although in ordinary life a person may remember none or only one of his dreams.
　　While the subjects—usually students—sleep, special machines record their brain waves and eye movements as well as the body movements that signal the end of a dream. Surprisingly, all subjects sleep soundly.
Observers report that a person usually fidgets(煩躁不安) before a dream. Once the dream has started, his body relaxes and his eyes become more active, as if the curtain had gone up on a show. As soon as the machine shows that the dream is over, a buzzer wakens the sleeper. He sits up, records his dream, and goes back to sleep—perhaps to dream some more.
Researchers have found that if the dreamer is wakened immediately after his dream, he can usually recall the entire dream. If he is allowed to sleep even five more minutes, his memory of the dream will have disappeared.
小題1:According to the passage, researchers at the University of Chicago are studying ____.
A．contents of dreams　B．dreamers while they dream
C．the meaning of dreamsD．the progress of sleeping
小題2:Their finding has discovered that _____.
A．everyone dreams every night
B．dreams are easily remembered
C．dreams are likely to be frightening
D．One person dreams only one dream a night
小題3:The machines being used in the experiment record _____.
A．the depth of sleep
B．the subjects’ brain waves and eye movements
C．how many dreams a person has
D．what a sleeper dreams during his sleep
小題4:A person would be most likely to remember the dream that _____.
A．was of most interest to him
B．occurred immediately after he went to sleep
C．occurred just before he woke up
D．was the longest one to him

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:B
小題4:C

試題分析：本文介紹芝加哥大學(xué)的研究人員是用機(jī)器來(lái)記錄人的腦電波和眼球的運(yùn)動(dòng)，研究的做夢(mèng)的人，發(fā)現(xiàn)人每天晚上會(huì)做夢(mèng)，但大部分人都不記得做的夢(mèng)。但可以記住醒來(lái)之前做的夢(mèng)。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第一段的句子：It is a dream laboratory where researchers are at work studying dreamers.可知芝加哥大學(xué)的研究人員是研究的做夢(mèng)的人。選B
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第一段的句子：Their findings have discovered that everyone dreams from three to seven times a night, 可知人每天晚上會(huì)做夢(mèng)。選A
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第二段的句子：special machines record their brain waves and eye movements as well as the body movements that signal the end of a dream.可知機(jī)器是用來(lái)記錄人的腦電波和眼球的運(yùn)動(dòng)。選B
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)題：從最后一段的句子：Researchers have found that if the dreamer is wakened immediately after his dream, he can usually recall the entire dream.可知人們記住醒來(lái)之前做的夢(mèng)。選C
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