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黄浦区2021学年度第一学期高三年级期终调研测试 英语试卷 Ⅱ.Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions ：After reading the passage below,fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct.For the blanks with a given word,fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word;for the other blanks,use one word that best fits each blank. Do Animals Dream? You can’t see your sleeping pet’s bran waves,but its behavior can tell you when Fido or Fluffy might be dreaming.If you watch clock you’ll see that as your cat falls asleep,her breathing becomes slow and regular and her body still.She has entered the first stage of sleep.___21___ （call）slow-wave sleep.After about15minutes you’ll notice a change___22___her eyes move under her closed lids.Fluffy has entered the REM （Rapid Eye Movement），or dreaming,stage of sleep.Although she moves and makes little grunting noises,messages from her brain to the large muscles in her legs___23___ （block ），so she can’t run about. Back in1963,Michel Jouvet,French scientist who was studying steep in cats___24___ （interrupt）their Sleep paralysis,the state of being unable to act or function properly.___25_________they were completely asleep,the dreaming cats began to chase balls that Jouvet couldn’t see and bent their backs at invisible enemies. He figures he was watching them act out their dreams! What were they dreaming about?Mostly,the dreaming cats seemed___26___ （practise ）important cat skills: stalking,pouncing,and fighting. In___27___study,Mat Wilson,a neuroscientist,recorded rats’brain waves while they learned mazes （迷宫）. One day,he left the brain-wave-recording machine on while the rats fell asleep.The pattern of brain waves in the sleeping rats matched the pattern from the maze so closely that Wilson could locate exactly which part of the maze each rat was dreaming about! Many researchers now think that in both people and animals,one purpose of dreams is to practise important skills