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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(二)模拟题70 Section Ⅰ Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.  Some good news for travelers. Everyone knows booking all your 1 with the same hotel chain earns loyalty points, which can be 2 for upgrades, or free stays. Now a new study shows there could be performance 3 too.  That people often 4 trouble sleeping in a different bed in 5 surroundings is a phenomenon known as the first night effect. This is because if a person stays in the same room the following night, he or she tends to sleep more 6 . Yuka Sasaki and her colleagues at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, set out to investigate the 7 of this effect.  Dr Sasaki knew this effect probably has something to do with how humans 8 . The puzzle was what benefit would be gained from it when performance might be 9 the next day. She also knew from previous work conducted on birds and dolphins that these animals 10 half of their brains to sleep 11 so that they can rest while remaining alert enough to avoid predators. This led her to 12 if humans might be doing the same thing and suffering from 13 the next day as a result.  To take a 14 look, the team studied 35 young and healthy people as they slept in the 15 environment of the universitys Department of Psychological Sciences. The participants each slept in the department for two nights and were carefully 16 each time with neuroimaging techniques that looked at the activity of their brains.  Dr Sasaki found that, 17 , the participants slept less well on their first night in the lab than they did on their second, 18 more than twice as long to fall asleep and sleeping less in 19 . During deep sleep, the participants brains behaved asymmetrically, in a manner like that seen in bi