托福考试阅读练习题：take a nap.pdfVIP

智 课 网 托 福 备 考 资 料 托福考试阅读练习题：Take a Nap 在白天能小睡休息一段时间的人会有更好的记忆力，这是为什么呢 ?下面的托福考试阅读练习材料就要说说这个话题。 ? A brief nap could boost peoples memory, according to new research. ? Researchers at The City University of New York found that having a brief sleep improved peoples ability to remember things. ? Volunteers were told to memorise pairs of words. When they were tested straight afterwards and six hours later, those who had been allowed a nap of up to one hour before the retest achieved 15 percent higher scores than the volunteers who had not been allowed to go to sleep. ? The researchers told New Scientist magazine: Traditionally, time devoted to daytime napping has been considered counterproductive . ? But they added that it now seemed that sleep was an important mechanism for memory formation. ? The study was published in the journal Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, the magazine said. ? ? ? 一项必威体育精装版调查表明，小睡能增强记忆力。 ? 纽约城市大学的研究者们发现，小睡一觉能提高人的记忆力。 ? 研究人员让参加调查的志愿者记住几组单词，并在分别记完之后和 6小时后对他们进行测试。结果发现，那些在接受再次测试前小睡了1小 时的人比未小睡的人得分高出15个百分点。 ? 研究人员在接受《新科学家》杂志采访时说：人们一直认为白天 小睡起不到什么积极作用。 ? 但是，现在看来，睡眠是形成记忆的一个重要途径。 ? 据《新科学家》杂志介绍，此项研究结果发表在《学习和记忆神经 生物学》上。