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The North Cobb High School Band routinely takes the field every Friday night during football season. The band plays at North Cobb football games.
This week, the band had to get ready a little earlier in the week. That’s because they played before the Atlanta Braves baseball game at Turner Field.
North Cobb won wsbtv.com’s Best High School Band Tournament (锦标赛) last season. The prize for winning was a chance to play on the field at Turner Field before a Major League Baseball game. Tuesday night, the band collected the prize.
“We were excited,” North Cobb High School Band drum major Madison Hall said. “Growing up in Atlanta, the Braves have always been such a famous figure in Atlanta, so we were really exited to have the opportunity to perform in front of a lot of people and in front of our community.”
The tournament featured 64 high school bands from across Georgia. Wsbtv.com users determined the top four bands through voting with the Atlanta Braves entertainment staff selecting the winner from the final four. They selected North Cobb.
“We have a number of great students at North Cobb,” director Greg Williams said.
“We’ve got the best parents in the world,” he said. “The kids are so amazing, they are really bright, talented, and they work hard. They do anything we ask them to do and I really think that’s a lot of keys to our success.”
Under the leadership of Williams and assistant band director Scott Pannell, the band made its way onto the outfield grass just as Atlanta Braves catcher Brian McCann was warming up.
“It was amazing,” said Pannell. “Just going out in the tunnel and going into the stadium. And just looking at the Braves players on the left and seeing them over by our kids, it’s just unbelievable.”
The Atlanta Braves have once again partnered with wsbtv.com to reward this year’s winner of the Best High School Band Tournament a chance to play at Turner Field. 56. What did the band do on Tuesday night?
A. They performed at a football game. B. They won wsbtv.com’s tournament. C. They played before a baseball game. D. They got a sum of money as a reward. 57. The North High School Band turned out the best mainly due to ________. A. the support of the school B. the huge reward from wsbtv.com C. the hard work of its members D. the encouragement from McCann 58. We can infer from the passage that ________.
A. the North High School Band is the pride of the Braves B. the competition between the school bands is very fierce C. the Atlanta Braves have been admired all over the USA D. only bright kids can be admitted to the North High School
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Why can some people sleep through noises like a honking car or flushing toilet, while others are awakened by the lightest sound?
To find the answer, sleep researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital conducted an unusual study of 12 self-described deep sleepers. After tests confirmed that the healthy volunteers were solid sleepers, they took part in a three-night study in the university’s sleep laboratory. The participants spent the night in a big and comfortable room. But the room also included four speakers positioned near the top of the bed.
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During the night, the deep sleepers were subjected to 14 different recorded sounds, like street traffic, toilets flushing, an ice machine dispensing and an airplane flying overhead. Next door, the researchers monitored their sleep patterns and brain waves.
As expected, all of the participants slept relatively well, but there were differences in how they responded to the noisy interruptions. Some of the sleepers didn’t wake up even when a sound was blasted at 70 decibels (分贝); others were awakened by sounds at 40 or 50 decibels.
The researchers discovered that the difference in a sleeper’s reaction to noise could be predicted by the level of brain activity called “sleep spindles’’. A sleep spindle is a burst of high-frequency brain activity coming from deep inside the brain during sleep. The source of the spindles is the thalamus, a part of the brain that sends sensory information to the rest of the cortex (皮层).
Before the study, the Massachusetts researchers theorized (推理) that the spindles are the brain’s way of preventing sensory information from passing through the thalamus and waking the rest of the brain during sleep. They found that the sleepers who experienced the most sleep spindles during the night were also the soundest sleepers and were least likely to be awakened by noise.
Scientists already know that most people become lighter sleepers with age, most likely because older people experience less “slow wave sleep’’, which is the deepest stage of sleep. People also produce fewer sleep spindles as they age. But even when controlling for the stage of sleep a person was in, the number of sleep spindles still predicted their risk for awakening because of noise.
More research is needed, but the findings suggest that a better understanding of sleep spindles could lead to new behavioral or drug therapies for people with sleep disorders. For instance, future studies may try to determine whether diet, exercise or other behaviors may influence the number of sleep spindles a person produces during the night.
63. Some participants can sleep well through loud noises mainly because ________. A. their brains don’t respond to outside noises B. their brains react differently to noises C. they adapt to the environment quickly D. they don’t pay attention to the monitors
64. Scientists believe that the key to affecting deep sleep is ______.
A. sleep spindles B. stages of sleep C. sleep disorders D. sensory information 65. It can be learned from the passage that ________.
A. the older a deep sleeper becomes, the lighter his sleep must be
B. the more “slow wave sleep” one experiences, the deeper sleep one has C. the more frequently a sleeper’s brain works, the less information it sends
D. the deeper sleep people have, the more likely they will be awakened by noise 66. From the passage we can predict ________.
A. more factors in influencing sleep spindles may be discovered B. more solid sleepers will take part in relative experiments C. sleep spindles will be applied to changing one’s behaviors D. deep sleepers will probably enjoy a more healthy life
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60. Hotel Icaria Barcelona allows you easy access to the following EXCEPT ________. A. the stadiums where you can have sports B. the seaside where you can relax yourself C. the places where you can take trains or buses
D. the building where you can attend a religious service
61. The underlined word “encrypted” in the last section probably means “________”. A. analysed B. stored C. collected D. protected 62. It can be inferred from the advertisement that _______. A. smoking is completely forbidden in the hotel B. every room follows the same hotel policies
C. policies may be in your favor if you book 6 rooms D. an extra bed can be provided for you free of charge
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A study now lends support to the idea that meal-time distractions (分散注意) can mask the
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