(练习)单元综合检测2 Unit 2 Out of this World -【提分教练】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第三册(译林版2020)

单元综合检测(二) 第一部分　阅读 第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Werewolves (狼人) aren't the only creatures affected by the moon's cycles(周期).A full moon also affects people's sleep more or less, reports a Swiss team of scientists.Even people who sleep in a lab without windows could reduce their sleeping time a little once a month. To test the moon's influence, 33 adults of both sexes and ages of many kinds spent several nights in a sleep lab.As they slept, researchers recorded their brain activity, eye movements and hormone levels (荷尔蒙水平).On nights closer to a full moon, the sleepers took an average of five minutes longer to fall asleep, and slept for 20 minutes less.In addition, brain activity fell by 30 percent during the sleep.And hormone levels that help control sleep cycles went down.On these nights, the sleepers complained they couldn't sleep well even though they didn't know the moon's cycle.On the bright side, no sleeper turned into a werewolf. The Swiss team doesn't know how the moon affects sleep.The gravity of the moon causes ocean tides(潮汐)to rise and fall.But that force is too weak to affect sleep, Gajochen says.He believed some body's biological clock may be affected by the moon cycles.There may be another reason, says David Dinges.This sleep researcher at the University Of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia says that the body clock is very sensitive(敏感的)to light at night.Those sleepers could have been affected by having too much moonlight before arriving at the lab. 【语篇解读】　本文是说明文。主要讲述了一个关于月亮影响人的睡眠的实验，实验得出月亮会影响人的睡眠，尤其是在满月的时候。 1．The writer mentioned “werewolves” in the first paragraph to ． A．show there are the moon's cycles B．attract people's attention to the report C．introduce a creature to readers D．ask people not to sleep alone in the lab B　[推理判断题。根据第一段的“Werewolves aren't the only creatures affected by the moon's cycles.A full moon also affects people's sleep more or less, reports a Swiss team of scientists.”(狼人并不是唯一受到月亮的周期影响的生物。瑞士一组科学家报告称，满月或多或少也会影响人们的