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第六讲 阅读理解真题练习及答案详解 一、2001年1月CET-6阅读理解真题 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Directions:There are 4 reading passages in this part.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:Birds that are literaly halfasleep-with one brain hemisphere alert and the other sleeping—control which side of the brain remains awake,according to a new study of sleeping ducks.Earlier studies have documented halfbrain sleep in a wide range of birds.The brain hemispheres take turns sinking into the sleep stage characterized by slow brain waves.The eye controlled by the sleeping hemisphere keeps shut,while the wakeful hemiphere’s eye stays open and alert.Birds also can sleep with both hemispheres resting at once.Decades of studies of bird flocks led researchers to predict extra alertness in the more vulnerable,endoftherow sleepers.Sure enough,the end birds tended to watch carefully on the side away from their companions.Ducks in the inner spots showed no preference for gaze directions.Also,birds dozing(打盹)at the end of the line resorted to singlehemisphere sleep,rather than total relaxation,more often than inner ducks did.Rotating 16 birds through the positions in a fourduck row,the researchers found outer birds half  asleep during some 32 percent of dozing time versus about 12 percent for birds in internal spots.“We believe this is the first evidence for an animal behaviorally controlling sleep and wakefulness simultaneously in different regions of the brain,”the researchers say.The results provide the best evidence for a longstanding supposition that singlehemisphere sleep evolved as creatures scanned for enemies.The preference for opening an eye on the lookout side could be widespread,he predict