41[H] How students ultimately handle stress may depend on their personal test-taking abilities. There are people who always wait until the last minute, and make it much harder than it needs to be. And then there those who, not knowing what questions are coming at them, and having no resources to refer to, can freeze. And then there are we rare [re?(r)] folks [\'f??ks] （人们; 家属） who fit both those descriptions.学生最终如何处理压力可能取决于他们的个人应试能力。有些人总是等到最后一刻，使事情变得比实际需要困难得多。然后 在那里，那些不知道有什么问题在向他们提出，而且没有资源可供参考的人，可以冻结。然后，我们也有罕见的人，他们符合这两种描述。
36[I] Yes, my advanced age must factor（vt. 把…因素包括进去） into the equation [??kwe??n] (等式), in part because of my inability toaccess the information as quickly. As another returning student at Columbia, Kate Marber, toldme, ―We are learning not only all this information, but essentially how to learn again. Ourfellow（ 同伴; 男子adj. 同伴的; 同事的） students have just come out of high school. A lot has changed since we were last inschool.‖是的，我的高龄必须考虑到方程式(等式)，部分原因是我无法快速地获取这些信息。作为哥伦比亚大学的另一名返校学生，凯特·马伯告诉我：―我们是利亚。 不仅是这些信息，而且本质上是如何重新学习。我们的同学刚从高中毕业。自从我们上一次上一所学校以来，已经发生了很多变化。
45[J] If nothing else, the situation has given my college son and me something to share, When Iasked his opinion on this matter, he responded, ―I like in-class exams because the time isalready reserved, as opposed to using my free time at home to work on a test,‖ he responded.It seems to me that a compromise would be receiving the exam questions a day or two inadvance, and then doing the actual test in class the ticking [?t?k??]（发出滴答声;） clock overhead.如果没有其他的事，情况已经给我上大学的儿子和我分享的东西，当我问他对这件事的，看来他回答说：―我喜欢在课堂考试，因为已经预留了时间，为 他回答道：―我反对利用我在家的空闲时间去做一个测试。‖在我看来，妥协的办法是提前一两天收到考题，然后再做实际的测试。 把倒计时的钟记在头顶上。
[K] Better yet, how about what one Hunter College professor reportedly did recently for her finalexam: She encouraged the class not to stress or even study, promising that, ―It is going to be apiece of cake.‖ When the students came in, sharpened pencils in hand, there was not a bluebook in sight. Rather, they saw a large chocolate cake and they each were given a slice.更好的是，据报道一位亨特学院教授最近为期末考试做了什么：她鼓励全班学生不要有压力，甚至不要学习，并承诺说：―这将是每一个c级的学生。 阿克―。学生们进来时，手里拿着铅笔，眼前看不到一本蓝色的书。相反，他们看到了一个巨大的巧克力蛋糕，他们每人都得到了一片。
36. Elderly [?eld?li] 较老的 students find it hard to keep up with the rapid changes in education. 37. Some believe take-home exams may affect students\' performance in other courses.
38. Certain professors believe in-class exams are ultimately[??lt?m?tli]最后more helpful to students. 39. In-class exams are believed to discourage cheating in exams. 40. The author was happy to learn she could do some exams at home.
41. Students who put off their work until the last moment often find the exams more difficult thanthey actually are.
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42. Different students may prefer different types of exams.
43. Most professors agree whether to give an in-class or a take-home exam depends on type ofcourse being taught. 44. The author dropped out of退学 college some forty years ago.
45. Some students think take-home exams will eat up their free time. Section C
Passage One
Questions 46 and 50 are based on the following passage.
That people often experience trouble sleeping in a different bed in unfamiliar surroundings is a phenomenon known as the ―first-night‖ effect. If a person stays in the same room the following night they tend to sleep more soundly. Yuka Sasaki and her colleagues at Brown University set out to investigate the origins of this effect.
Dr. Sasaki knew the first-night effect probably has something to do with how humans evolved. The puzzle was what benefit would be gained from it when performance might be affected the following day. She also knew from previous work conducted on birds and dolphins that these animals put half of their brains to sleep at a time so that they can rest while remaining alert enough to avoid predators (捕食者). This led her to wonder if people might be doing the same thing. To take a closer look, her team studied 35 healthy people as they slept in the unfamiliar environment of the university’s Department of Psychological Sciences. The participants each slept in the department for two nights and were carefully monitored with techniques that looked at the activity of their brains. Dr. Sasaki found, as expected, the participants slept less well on their first night than they did on their second, taking more than twice as long to fall asleep and sleeping less overall. During deep sleep, the participants’ brains behaved in a similar manner seen in birds and dolphins. On the first night only, the left hemispheres (半球) of their brains did not sleep nearly as deeply as their right hemispheres did.