大学英语读写教程第二册.pptVIP

I’m Robert Province. I have been studying yawning for the past two years. But I still don’t know why people yawn. In fact, no one seems to know much about it. My students have helped me find out more about yawning. They agreed to be watched while sitting alone in small rooms. In the rooms, they watched TV programs, or pictures of people yawning. Or they just sat and thought about yawning. Students also kept records of whey they yawned throughout the day. From these experiments, yawning seems linked in some way to sleeping. My students yawned most just before sleeping or just after waking from