When lab rats sleep, their brains revisit the maze they navigated during the day, according to a new study (1)_____ yesterday, o

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问题     When lab rats sleep, their brains revisit the maze they navigated during the day, according to a new study (1)_____ yesterday, offering some of the strongest evidence (2)_____ that animals do indeed dream. Experiments with sleeping rats found that cells in the animals’ brains fire in a distinctive pattern (3)_____ the pattern that occurs when they are (4)_____ and trying to learn their way around a maze.
    Based on the results, the researchers concluded the rats were dreaming about the maze, (5)_____ reviewing what they had learned while awake to (6)_____ the memories.
    Researchers have long known that animals go (7)_____ the same types of sleep phases that people do, including rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, which is when people dream. But (8)_____ the occasional twitching, growling or barking that any dog owner has (9)_____ in his or her sleeping pet, there’s been (10)_____ direct evidence that animals (11)_____. If animals dream, it suggests they might have more (12)_____ mental functions than had been (13)_____.
    "We have as humans felt that this (14)_____ of memory—our ability to recall sequences of experiences—was something that was (15)_____ human", Wilson said. "The fact that we see this in rodents (16)_____ suggest they can evaluate their experience in a significant way. Animals may be (17)_____ about more than we had previously considered".
    The findings also provide new support for a leading theory for (18)_____ humans sleep—to solidify new learning. "People are now really nailing down the fact that the brain during sleep is (19)_____ its activity at least for the time immediately before sleep and almost undoubtedly using that review to (20)_____ or integrate those memories into more usable forms", said an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.


选项 A、why
B、when
C、how
D、where

答案A

解析 why。why引导的宾语从句,作介词for的宾语。句意:这些发现也为人类睡眠是因为要巩固新学到的东西这一主导理论提供了新的证明。破折号后的不定式短语进一步解释why humans sleep,可视为它的同位语,when,how,where各有其义,放在这里显然不合适。
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