U. S. researchers suggest sleeping can help us remember things we have just learnt. A team from Northwestern University【C1】_____

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问题     U. S. researchers suggest sleeping can help us remember things we have just learnt. A team from Northwestern University【C1】______that a 90-minute nap(小睡)can help people learn a new skill. The【C2】______on their research is published in the June edition of the journal Nature. The scientists say: "Information acquired during waking can be reactivated(重新激活)during sleep,【C3】______memory stabilization. " Test volunteers practiced musical tunes before and after a short sleep.【C4】______the nap, the researchers played one of the tunes the volunteers had practiced. The team found that the participants made【C5】______errors when playing the tune that had been played while they slept.
    Study co-author Dr Pau J. Reuber points out the research might not work【C6】______learning a foreign language while you sleep. He said: "The critical【C7】______is that our research shows that memory is strengthened for something you’ve already learned. " He added: "Rather than learning something【C8】______in your sleep, we’re talking about enhancing an existing memory by reactivating information recently acquired. "【C9】______, Dr Reuber did say there were possibilities for language learners; "If you were learning【C10】______to speak in a foreign language during the day, for example, and then tried to reactivate those memories during sleep, perhaps you might enhance your learning," he said.
【C8】

选项 A、old
B、strange
C、unique
D、new

答案D

解析 由句中表示对比关系的连接短语Rather than(而不是)可知,Rather than之后的learning something——in your sleep与相应的并列成分enhancing an existingmemory(提高现存的记忆)意思相反。因此,空格中填入的词应与existing意思相反,D项new符合要求,是正确答案。
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