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18. WAKE UP!

Do you (1 )______ yourself going into work later and later every day just
to sleep a little longer? Do you (2 )______asleep in the cinema, wake up and
laugh at the wrong moment? Do you spend half the weekend asleep and love
it? (3 )______ you’re a sleepaholic.
Someone somexvhere (4 )______said that the average amount of sleep the
average person wants is ílve minutes longer than they (5) ______ . Being a
sleepaholic is about vvanting íĩve hours longer. But sleepaholics can find that
their habit gets them (6) ______ deep trouble with colleagues and íriends.
Being late for work because of oversleeping is a pretty poor story if you’re (7)
_ _ _ about a career. Priends can get (8) offended if you leave them
early to get some sleep.
Throughout history, ambitious people have often (9) ______ their
enormous energy with a lack of need for sleep. It’s easy to see how this can
(10) ______ people a competitive advantage. So if you want to (11) ______
advantage of career opportunities, or if you’ve just been criticized once too
often about sleeping (1 2 )______the best bít of a party, what’s the (13)_____
? A psychiatrist studied sleep needs and over time he claimeđ to (1 4 )______
his own daily sleep from a Standard eight hours to two, saying he
experienced no bad reactions.
But if you really can’t (15) ______without sleep and don’t want to lose
your job, become so irreplaceable in it that you can be openly lazy, like the
us President Calvin Coolidge, who slept for about 13 hours a day.

1. A. realize B. occur c. remark D. find
2. A. become B. go c. fall D. drop
3. A. Just as B. Then c. In case D. Such
4. A. once B. ago c. past D. prior
5. A. win B. keep c. last D. get
6. A. at B. for c.into D. down
7. A. keen B. serious c. fond D. eager
8. A. quite B. fully c. largely D. plenty
9. A. joined B. linked c. attached D. United
10. A. turn B. make c. let D. gi ve
11. A. take B. come c. hold D. have
12. A. across B. along c. through D. upon
13. A. resolution B. cure c. correction D. repair
14. A. subtract B. descend c.reduce D. sink
15. A. stand B. deal c. put D. do

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