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问题     Sleep is divided into periods of so-called REM sleep, characterized by rapid eye movements and dreaming, and longer periods of non-REM sleep.【C1】______ kind of sleep is at all well-understood, but REM sleep is【C2】______ to serve some restorative function of the brain. The purpose of non-REM sleep is even more【C3】______ . The new experiments, such as those【C4】______ for the first time at a recent meeting of the Society for Sleep Research in Minneapolis, suggest fascinating explanations【C5】______ of non-REM sleep.
    For example, it has long been known that total sleep【C6】______ is 100 percent fatal to rats, yet,【C7】______ examination of the dead bodies, the animals look completely normal. A researcher has now【C8】______ the mystery of why the animals die. The rats【C9】______ bacterial infections of the blood,【C10】______ their immune systems—the self-protecting mechanism against disease—had crashed.
【C8】

选项 A、paid attention to
B、caught sight of
C、laid emphasis on
D、cast light on

答案D

解析 本题考查动词短语辨析。根据上下文,此句意为现在一个研究者揭示了动物死亡的秘密。各选项意为:pay attention to“注意”;catch sight of“瞥见”;lay emphasis on“强调”;cast/throw light on“解释,使……明白”。根据上下文,D项符合句意,故选D。
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