专题10 2021年中考英语阅读精选真题模拟题精讲练

Passage 10 Sleeping in a New Place A Intensive Reading Have you ever had trouble sleeping in a new place? Lots of people do. And now researchers from Brown University in Rhode Island think they know why. They found that one-half of the brain "remains more awake" than the other half when people are trying to sleep in a new place. The sleep findings were reported in Current Biology by Brown University. In their report, the researchers said many people report they have a harder time sleeping the first night at a hotel or other places outside their home. They call it"first-night influence". "In Japan they say, "If you change your bed, you can't sleep, '"said Yuka Sasaki, one of the report's writers. "You don't sleep very well in a new place. We all know about it. " The researchers measured brain waves for 35 volunteers over two nights in a laboratory. The two nights were a week apart. They found during the first night the left half of the brain was more active than the