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If you dream in color, you’re not alone: the majority of people today claim to have colorful dreams. But it wasn’t always thus. Rearch conducted in the early part of the last century consistently found that people reported dreaming most often in black and white. According to Eva Murzyn at the University of Dundee, there are at least two possible explanations for this strange situation. The first is the methods ud in the rearches. The early studies tended to u questionnaires（问卷）, while more modern studies u dream diaries (filled in upon rising in the morning) or so-called “REM-awakening”, which involves interrupting people’s dream-filled periods of sleep to find out what they were dreaming about. People’s memories of their dreams are likely to be less accurate by using the questionnaire approach and they are more likely to reflect their beliefs about the form dreams generally take in an unclear way. The cond explanation has to do with black and white television and film. It's possible that the sudden increa in black and white film and television during the first half of the last century either affected the form of people’s dreams at that time, or affected their beliefs about the form dreams generally take. According to Murzyn’s findings, it’s the explanation bad on media exposure that carries more weight. She ud both questionnaire and diary methods to study the dreams of 30 older (average age 64) and 30 younger people (average age 21). The methodological technique made no difference to the type of dreams people reported. However, the extremely important thing was that, across both questionnaires and diaries, the older participants (who had had significant early life exposure to black and white media) reported experiencing significantly more black and white dreams over the last ten days than the younger participants (22 per cent vs. 4 per cent). Another finding was that older participants reported black and white dreams and colorful dreams to be of equal clearness. By contrast, the younger participants reported that the quality of black and white dreams was poorer. This rais the possibility that the younger participants didn’t really have any black and white dreams at all, but were simply regarding poorly remembered dreams as black and white. 小题1:We learn from the text that ______.A．people in the first half of the last century never had colorful dreamsB．older people are more likely to have black and white dreamsC．the dreams of younger people are always colorfulD．people today don’t have white and black dreams any more小题2:What did Murxyn do to find out the explanations for the colors in people’s dreams?A．She applied both questionnaire and diary methods to study people’s dreams.B．She ud diary methods to record people’s dreams.C．She cho 60 people to answer her questions about their dreams.D．She woke people up to record the colors of their dreams.小题3:What does the underlined expression “carry more weight” in paragraph 5 mean?A．be heavierB．be more powerfulC．be more importantD．be more uful小题4:From Murxyn’s findings we can infer that ______.A．both older people and younger people could report colorful dreams clearlyB．young people don’t have any black and white dreams in factC．the color of a person’s dream is decided by one’s ageD．it is probably the color of media that affects the color of one’s dream 题型：未知难度：其他题型

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小题1:B小题1:A小题1:C小题1:D

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人生感悟类阅读的概念：

生活感悟类的文章就是指能给人心灵以启迪，使人从中受到教育的文章。这类文章的体裁可以是记叙文，如生活中一些感人故事或情感故事，有点类似心灵鸡汤一样的短文。

生活感悟类阅读解题指导：

一、文章特点： 生活感悟类的文章就是指能给人心灵以启迪，使人从中受到教育的文章。这类文章的体裁可以是记叙文，如生活中一些感人故事或情感故事，有点类似心灵鸡汤一样的短文。有时故事的结尾会有一句“点睛之笔”，点出全文的中心思想，就像《伊索寓言》里的寓言一样。还可能是夹叙夹议的哲理散文或生活随笔。散文随笔通常会阐述一种朴素易懂，耳熟能详的人生道理或宝贵品质。文章的结构和议论文类似，一般是总分总或总分结构。每段首句或尾句为主题句（论点），其它句子围绕主题展开论述（论据），论证方法多种多样，或举例，或引用名言，或正反对照等。二、解题技巧：针对生活感悟类文章的特点，做这类文章的完形填空时，要特别注意以下几点：1、重点理解全文的首句。如果是记叙文，找出when，where，who，what等基本要素。如果是散文随笔，充分理解文章的中心句—全文的主题。2、阅读全文的结尾段或结尾句，有助于理解文章所阐述或蕴含的哲理、感悟或忠告等。3、调动自己的背景知识和情感。这类文章不会讲大道理也不会涉及到一些很专业的知识技术领域，而是谈一些小事和简单的道理，所以如果读者能和作者产生感情上的共鸣，读者会更好地把握作者的意图态度，从而提高做题的准确度。因此，考生在平时要做一个有心人，即用心去感悟生活中发生的小事，思考人生的一些基本道理，多阅读一些短小精悍的美文，多写写自己的心情故事和对生活学习的感悟。只有平时多用心，做题时才能调动自己的背景知识和情感。