The sheets are damp with sweat. You’re cold, but your heart is racing as if a killer just chased you down a dark street. It was

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问题     The sheets are damp with sweat. You’re cold, but your heart is racing as if a killer just chased you down a dark street. It was just a nightmare, you tell yourself; there’s nothing to be afraid of. But you’re still filled with【C1】________.
    Given how unsettling and haunting nightmares can be, is there a way for dreamers to【C2】________, or even turn off, these bad dreams as they happen?
    Research is【C3】________, but some studies suggest that people who can master lucid dreaming—that is, the ability to be【C4】________that a nightmare is happening and possibly even control it without waking up—may hold the【C5】________.
    Nightmares are part of the human experience, especially for kids. Doctors【C6】________don’t consider occasional nightmares a problem. They can just be symptoms of a sleep disorder that can【C7】________from an unpleasant experience, stress, or certain drugs.
    To treat the disorder, there are a number of medicines and therapies that are backed by【C8】________research, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, which analyzed the available research on the treatment of nightmare disorder in a recent【C9】________published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
    However, nightmares are complicated, and researchers are still struggling to understand them, said Dr. Rachel Salas, an expert on sleep disorders and an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. What we do know is that people【C10】________to have different kinds of nightmares at different points during the sleep cycle.
A)  amount
B)  answer
C)  avoid
D)  aware
E)  depart
F)  drastically
G)  fear
H)  limited
I)  mechanical
J)  result
K)  review
L)  rigorous
M)  tend
N)  timidity
O)  typically
【C2】

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答案C

解析 空格前的结构是a way to…,结合下文与空格处构成选择关系的turn off,空格处应填入动词原形。本句意为:考虑到噩梦是多么令人不安和挥之不去,做梦的人有没有办法_________,甚至在这些糟糕的梦发生时关掉它们?空格后的or表示选择关系,even表示程度加深,因此空格处应填入与turn off意义相近的动词原形,由此确定答案为C)avoid。备选的其他动词原形的词义与turn off无关,因此排除。
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