A Good Night Sleeping less than six and a half hours a night is not good for you, warned the American National Sleep Foundation recently. With supreme irony, the warning came just as people in the US, in the interests of daylight saving, were about to put their clocks forward one hour, (0) . The Foundation’s latest research shows that eight hours’ sleep is optimal for good health. The problem is that these days, some people seem to regard sleep as slothful and unproductive, a view encouraged by innovations like the Internet, (1) long after other sources of information are inactive. Actually, one could go further back in time and blame the invention of the light bulb, (2) . People slept on average nine hours a night before the arrival of electricity, (3) . For sleep is not equivalent to switching off your computer. In sleep important things still happen, things (4) . Sleep reduces the body’s metabolic rate by up to 20 per cent, representing a great saving in energy, and the amount of oxygen (5) also falls dramatically, as does our body temperature to a lesser extent. And during sleep the body releases growth hormone, (6) .
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a.which can even lead to major disasters
b.which effectively eliminated darkness
c.which are thought to be restorative and conserving
d.which probably means they were a good deal happier
e.which allows users unlimited access
f.which is why children need plenty of sleep
g which is clearly not enough for the average person
h.which we need in order to fall a sleep
i.which we use in the first part of the night
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In the morning I usually have porridge. I often start my breakfast with a cereal which is not cooked, it is something dry, ready to be eaten or muesli – some grain or porridge which is not cooked with dried fruit, nuts and so on.
I also like eggs (cooked in different ways). I don’t practically eat butter, I prefer soft margarine – made of vegetable fat, which is not heavy and creamy. I don’t eat jam at breakfast, I eat marmalade which is not sweet, there is slight bitterness; it’s rather pleasant.
I usually don’t have substantial breakfast on weekdays, I do it on weekends when I get up late. Very often I have just tea or coffee with sandwiches. Tea is usually taken by me with milk. I like very strong tea without sugar.
Sometimes when I am in hurry I don’t have time to have proper breakfast and I go to the university being hungry. In such case I usually buy something like «Snickers» or «Mars» on my way to the Alma Mater.
2. First lesson begins at 8.30
3. Do you like my new T-shirt?
4. He lives in a block of flats.
5. She has breakfast every morning.
6. He plays the piano every day.
7. Do you go to school every day?
8. Does he have a favourite movie?
9. I like swimming.
10. He never sleeps at night.
11. She always does her homework.
12. Do you know her?
13. I always have dinner at 5pm.
14. Does she like this song?
15. This shop opens at 8am.
16. I like the blue colour.
17. Every day she comes home at 5.30pm.
18. He likes the way you look.
19. I want to go to London.
20. I hate waking up early in the morning.