2020译林版高考英语一轮复习：第一部分语言知识必修3能力提升题组训练(付,60).pdf

高考 -英语 必修 3 Unit 1 The world of our senses 能力提升题组训练 (A) Ⅰ. 阅读理解 (2018 北京海淀区高三二模 ) Why Do People Blink Their Eyes? People blink( 眨眼 )their eyes tens of thousands of times every day.Scientists have long believed blinking was an involuntary movement and served mainly to keep the eyeballs wet.But a new study suggests it has a more important purpose. An international team of scientists from the University of California at Berkeley studied the blinking of humaneyelids.The journal Current Biology published their findings.The team said they found that blinking “repositions our eyeballs so we can stay focused ” on what we are seeing.They said that when we blink our eyelids,the eyes roll back into their sockets — the bony area that surrounds and protects the eyes.However,the researchers found the eyes don ’t always return to the same position.They said this causes the brain to tell the eye muscles to reorganize our eyesight. Gerrit Maus is the lead writer of the report.He serves as an assistant professor of psychology at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.Maus said, “Our eye muscles are quite sluggish( 迟缓的 )and imprecise,so the brain needs to constantly adapt its motor signals to make sure our eyes are pointing where they ’re supposed to.Our findings suggested that the brain measures the difference in what we see before and after a blink,and commands the eye muscles to make the needed corrections. ” The researchers said that without such corrections our surroundings would appear unclear an