Is the film Inception（《盗梦空间》）a reality? Studies suggest “lucid dreams（清醒梦）”where we coutrol the action are on the rise. In the movie, a dream world can be controlled at will. But for more and more of us, it is becoming a reality, with the number of people experiencing lucid dreams rising quickly. In the film, Leonardo DiCapris AND Ellen Page walk through a dream world where they are able to bend streets into the sky, walk up on the wall and destroy a café by the force of will.

While the plot of a lucid dream may not be dramatic, the process is similar, people having a lucid dream realize they are dreaming and may fro then on “direct” the action. Or they may simply “watch” the dream unfold.

The sense of awareness makes it different from the a dream that is simply extremely vivid and true to life. And while the description may seem fantastic, the process is familiar to many of us.

Studies suggest that the number of people in the Western world experiencing the lucid dream sometimes has risen by between 10% and 40% since the 1980s. today, they are so common that about one in eight of us will have one in our lives. Despite this, little is known about what causes them – or what is behind the rise.

Research carried out at the respected Harvard University in the US showed the brain to be hard at work during lucid dreams. In fact, the level of mental activity in some parts of the brain was similar to that of a person awake.

Lucid dreamers seem to share certain individual character. For instance, they are creative and believe in personal responsibility rather than letting society solve the problem. Scientists of course, do not know the function of dreams in general, far less that of lucid ones.

Our nightmares may reflect or waking concerns. And previous research has found that women have more nightmares than men. Their dreams are also more intense (紧张的) and leave more of an impression when they wake up.

59．According to Paragraph 1, which of the following is TRUE?

       A．The film Inception is based on reality.

       B．One can be controlled at will during lucid dreams.

       C．One can almost do anything by will in the film Inception.

       D．One is completely awake while he is doing lucid dreams.

60．Lucid dream is different from a common dream for its       .

       A．dramatic process                                        B．sense of awareness

       C．unknown cause                                          D．clear impression

61．What’s the probable task in the future for the scientists?

       A．To study what on earth causes lucid dreams.

       B．To study what characteristics lucid dreams reflect.

       C．To prevent more and more people doing lucid dream.

       D．To study how often one can “direct” his action in “lucid dreams.”

62．What does the passage mainly want to tell us?

       A．The function of lucid dreams.

       B．The reason why people often do lucid dreams.

       C．The fact that more and more people do lucid dreams.

       D．The new research related to lucid dreams.

Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. restore    B. recall    C. processing    D. previously   E. necessary F. locating    G. instead     H. fascinating    I. elsewhere    J. composition

As infants, we can recognize our mothers within hours of birth. In fact, we can recognize the __41__ of our mother’s face well before we can recognize her body shape. It’s   42   how the brain can carry out such a function at such a young age, especially since we don’t learn to walk and talk until we are over a year old. By the time we are adults, we have the ability to distinguish around 100,000 faces. How can we remember so many faces when many of us find it difficult to    43   such a simple thing as a phone number? The exact process is not yet fully understood, but research around the world has begun to define the specific areas of the bland and processes   44   for facial recognition.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe that they have succeeded in    45   a specific area of the brain called the fusiform face area (FFA), which is used only for facial recognition. This means that recognition of familiar objects such our clothes or cars, is from   46   in the brain. Researchers also have found the brain needs to see the whole face for recognition to take place. It had been   47   thought that we only needed to see certain facial features. Meanwhile, research at University College London has found that facial recognition is not a single process, but   48   involves three steps. The first step appears to be an analysis of the physical features of a person’s face, which is similar to how we scan the bar codes of our groceries. In the next step, the brain decides whether the face we are looking at is already known or unknown to us. And finally, the brain furnishes the information we have collected about the person whose face we are looking at. This complex   49   is done in a split second so that we can behave quickly when reacting to certain situations.