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2011年考研英语冲刺班阅读电子讲义 概述 1 1 11、做题的顺序和做题的时间 完形填空 20分钟 阅读理解 70-75分钟 新题型 20分钟 翻译 20分钟 小作文 15-20分钟 大作文 30-35分钟 阅读和写作穿插进行 2005年真题 Text3 Text3 TTeexxtt33 Of all the components of a good night’s sleep, dreams seem to be least within our control. In dreams, a window opens into a world where logic is suspended and dead people speak.A century ago, Freud formulated his revolutionary theory that dreams were the disguised shadows of our unconscious desires and fears; by the late 1970s, neurologists had switched to thinking of them as just “mental noise” -- the random byproducts of the neural-repair work that goes on during sleep. Now researchers suspect that dreams are part of the mind’s emotional thermostat, regulating moods while the brain is “off-line.” And one leading authority says that these intensely powerful mental events can be not only harnessed but actually brought under conscious control, to help us sleep and feel better, “It’s your dream,” says Rosalind Cartwright, chair of psychology at Chicago’sMedicalCenter.“Ifyoudon’tlikeit,changeit.” Evidence from brain imaging supports this view. The brain is as active during REM rapid eye movement sleep -- when most vivid dreams occur -- as it is when fully awake, says Dr, Eric Nofzinger at the University of Pittsburgh. But not all parts of the brain are equally involved; the limbic system the “emotional brain” is especially active, while the prefrontal cortex the center of intellect and reasoning is relatively quiet. “We wake up from dreams happy or depressed, and thosefeelingscanstaywithusallday.”saysStanfordsleepresearcherDr.WilliamDement. The link between dreams and emotions shows up among the patients in Cartwright’s clinic. 1 Most people seem to have more bad dreams early in the