TOEFL Reading Fill in the Missing Letters #004 — How Sleep Stores What You Learn

Free TOEFL 2026 Reading practice for the new Fill in the Missing Letters question type (Intermediate level): one short academic paragraph, 10 words with half their letters removed, instant checking.

How to practice: This is the new TOEFL 2026 Reading task Fill in the Missing Letters. One short academic paragraph has 10 incomplete words. The first half of each word is given; type the letters that are missing. Context, grammar, and word endings matter as much as spelling, so read the whole sentence before you type. Press CHECK when you are done.
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Fill in the missing letters in the paragraph.

Type the missing letters. Use Backspace to remove a letter and move back.

Sleep does more than rest the body; it helps the brain consol what it learned during the day. During deep sleep the hippocampus repl patterns of activity recorded while you were ale, sending them to the cortex for long-term stor. Researchers can observe this rehea in rats running a maze: the same neurons fire again in the same ord while the animal sleeps. Students who sleep after stud recall more the next morning than those who stay awa. The benefit disappears if the sleep is interr repeatedly, which suggests that uninterrupted cycles mat.

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