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2017届汕头潮实高三下月考英语试卷 第二部分??阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)? 第一节??(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分)? A?? Are?you?an?early?riser?or?a?night?owl??Researchers?from?Aachen?University?in?Germany?believe?that?about?10?percent?of?people?can?be?classified?as?morning?people,?who?feel?more?active?and?function?best?in?the?morning．Around?20?percent?are?night?owlspeople?who?naturally?tend?to?stay?up?late?and?are?more?tired?during?the?day．And?the?rest?of?us?fall?somewhere?in?between,?according?to?New?Scientist.? Previous?studies?have?suggested?that?early?risers?are?more?likely?to?be?happy?and?healthy?while?night?owls?experience?worse?sleep?as?well?as?more?depression?and?anxiety?during?the?day.? For?a?long?time,?scientists?have?been?trying?to?find?out?what?causes?the?differences?between?the?two.A?new?study?suggests?that?it?isn’t?just?people’s?habitsearly?risers?and?night?owls?actually?have?different?brain?structures.? Led?by?Jessica?Rosenberg?at?Aachen?University,?researchers?scanned?the?brains?of?16?early?risers,?23?night?owls?and?20?people?with?intermediate?sleeping?hours．They?found?that?the?brains?of?night?owls?had?less?white?matterwhich?speeds?up?the?transmission(of?nerve?signals?–?in?brain?areas?associated?with?depression．? As?you?know,?after?people?fly?in?an?airplane?from?one?time?zone?to?another,?they?often?suffer?from?a?confused?and?tired?feeling?called?jet?lag‖?because?their?body?clocks?are?out?of?sync?with?the?new?time?zone．It?usually?takes?about?a?week?for?their?bodies?to?adjust?to?the?new?time．But?night?owls?always?have?difficulty?syncing?their?bodies?to?the?right?time?due?to?their?brain?structure．―It’s?like?they?suffer?from?permanent?jet?lag,‖?said?Rosenberg.? The?good?news?is?that?it?is?possible?for?night?owls?to?turn?themselves?into?morning?people．According?to?the?researchers,?night?owls?should?try?to?spend?as?much?time?in?the?sunlight?as?possible?and?reduce?their?exposure?to?artificial?light?at?night?to?force?their?body?clocks?to?shift?to?a?more?normal?rhythm. 17．What?does?the?article?mainly?discu