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2023-2024学年高三上学期期末考试(一模)英语试题分类汇编
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2024届上海市崇明区高三上学期第一次模拟考试英语试卷
Section C
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
1. Here we show how this work translates to humans.
1. Many college students experience irregular and insufficient sleep.
1. The study evaluated more than 600 first-year students across five studies at three universities.
1. Most surprising to me was that no matter what we did to make the effect go away, it persisted.
1. The results are available in the Feb. 13 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
1. Total nightly sleep is a potentially important and underappreciated behavior supporting academic achievement.
Nightly Sleep Is Key to Student Success
For young adults, college is a time of transition. It may be the first time students have the freedom to determine how to spend their time, but this freedom comes with competing interests from academics, social events and even sleep.
A multi-institutional team of researchers conducted the first study to evaluate how the duration of nightly sleep early in the semester affects first year college students’ end-of-semester grade point average (GPA). Using sleep trackers, they found that students on average sleep 6.5 hours a night, but negative outcomes built up when students received less than six hours of sleep a night. 67
David Creswell, the William S. Dietrich II Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience at the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, led a team of researchers to evaluate the relationship between sleep and GPA.
“Animal studies have shown how critical sleep is for learning and memory,” said Creswell. “ 68 The less nightly sleep a first-year college student gets at the beginning of the school term predicts lower GPA at the end of the term. Lack of sleep may be hurting students’ ability