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13.05.2021 04:09 •  Английский язык

For questions (1-6), read the following text and then choose from the list given below the best phrase to fill each of the numbered spaces. Each correct phrase may only be used once. Some of the suggested answers do not fit at all. There is an example for you (0).

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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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Выберите нужную позицию в левом поле, кликнув по ней, затем кликните в правом поле по выбранной Вами позиции (протянется линия). Если хотите изменить ответ, нажмите на точку в любом из полей (линия исчезнет).