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All animals must rest, but do they really sleep as we know it? The answer to this question seems obvious. If an animal regularly
All animals must rest, but do they really sleep as we know it? The answer to this question seems obvious. If an animal regularly
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2011-05-29
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All animals must rest, but do they really sleep as we know it? The answer to this question seems obvious. If an animal regularly stops its activities and stays quiet and unmoving——if it looks as though it is sleeping——then why not simply assume that it is in fact sleeping? But how can observers be sure that an animal is sleeping?
They can watch the animal and notice whether its eyes are open or closed, whether it is active or lying quietly, and whether it responds to light or sound. These factors are important clues, but they often are not enough. Horses and cows, for example, rarely close their eyes, and fish and snakes cannot close them. Yet this does not necessarily mean that they do not sleep. Have you ever seen a cat dozing with an eye partly open? Even humans have occasionally been observed to sleep with one or both eyes partially open. Animals do not necessarily lie down to sleep either. Elephants, for example, often sleep standing up, with their tusks resting in the fork of a tree. Finally, while "sleeping" animals often seem unaware of changes in the sounds and light and other stimuli around them, that does not really prove they are sleeping either.
Observations of animal behavior alone cannot fully answer the question of whether or not animals sleep. The answers come from doing experiments in sleep laboratories, using a machine called the electroencephalograph (EEC). The machine is connected to animals and measures their brain signals, breathing, heartbeat, and muscle activity. The measurements are different when the animals appear to be sleeping than when they appear to be awake. Using the EEC, scientists have confirmed that all birds and mammals studied in laboratories do sleep. There is some evidence that reptiles, such as snakes and turtles, do not truly sleep, although they do have periods of rest each day, in which they are quiet and unmoving. They also have discovered that some animals, like chimpanzees, cats, and moles (who live underground), are good sleepers while others, like sheep, goats, and donkeys, are poor sleepers. Interestingly, the good sleepers are nearly all hunters with resting places that are safe from their enemies. Nearly all the poor sleepers are animals hunted by other animals: they must always be watching for enemies, even when they are resting.
Animals that are good sleepers ______.
选项
A、need to have a good sleep after they have exhausted themselves by getting rid of hunting animals
B、need to have a good sleep after they get tired from hunting other animals
C、are all mammals
D、almost always have a safe resting place
答案
D
解析
本题的依据句是第三段中的“Interestingly, the good... from their enemies”,从中可知,能睡觉的动物都是有安全休息地点的捕食者,所以D项正确。
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