Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices, Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

The sheets are damp with sweat. You're cold, but your heart is racing as if a killer just chased you down a dark street. It was just a nightmare,you tell yourself; there's nothing to be afraid of. But you're still filled with    26    .
Given how unsettling and haunting nightmares can be, is there a way for dreamers to    27    , or even turn off,these bad dreams as they happen?
Research is    28    ,but some studies suggest that people who can master lucid dreaming-that is, the ability to be    29    that a nightmare is happening and possibly even control it without waking up-may hold the    30    .
Nightmares are part of the human experience, especially for kids.Doctors    31    don't consider occasional nightmares a problem. They can just be symptoms of a sleep disorder that can    32    from an unpleasant experience, stress, or certain drugs.
To treat the disorder, there are a number of medicines and therapies that are backed by    33    research, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, which analyzed the available research on the treatment of nightmare disorder in a recent    34    published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
However, nightmares are complicated, and researchers are still struggling to understand them, said Dr. Rachel Salas, an expert on sleep disorders and an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. What we do know is that people    35    to have different kinds of nightmares at different points during the sleep cycle.

A) amount   B) answer   C) avoid   D) aware   E) depart   F) drastically   G) fear   H) limited   I) mechanical   J) result   K) review   L) rigorous   M) tend   N) timidity   O) typically