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We all know that the normal human daily cycle of activity is of some 7-8 hours’ sleep alternating with, some 16-17 hours’ wakefu
We all know that the normal human daily cycle of activity is of some 7-8 hours’ sleep alternating with, some 16-17 hours’ wakefu
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2010-03-19
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问题
We all know that the normal human daily cycle of activity is of some 7-8 hours’ sleep alternating with, some 16-17 hours’ wakefulness and that, broadly speaking, the sleep normally coincides with the hours of darkness. Our present concern is with how easily and to what extent this cycle can be modified.
The question is no mere academic one. The ease, for example, with which people earl change from working in the day to working at night is a question of growing importance in industry where automation calls for round-the-clock working of machines, It normally takes from five days to one week for a person to adapt to a reversed routine of sleep and wakefulness, sleeping during the day and working at night. Unfortunately, it is often the case in industry that shifts are changed every week; a person may work from 12 midnight to 8 a.m. one week, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. the next, and 4p.m. to 12 midnight the third and so on. This means that no sooner has he got used to one routine than he has to change to another, so that much of his time is spent neither working nor sleeping very efficiently.
The only real solution appears to be handed over the night shift to a number of permanent night workers. An interesting study of the domestic life and health of night-shift workers was carried out by Brown in 1957. She found a high incidence of disturbed sleep and other disorders among those on alternating day and night shifts, but no abnormal occurrence of these phenomena among those on permanent night work.
The latter system then appears to be the best long-term policy, but meanwhile something may be done to relieve the strains of alternate day and night work by selecting those people who can adapt most quickly to the changes of routine. One way of knowing when a person has adapted is by measuring his body temperature. People engaged in normal daytime work will have a high temperature during the hours of wakefulness and low one at night; when they change to night work the pattern will only gradually go back to match the new routine and the speed with which it does so parallels, broadly speaking, the adaptation of the body as a whole, particularly in terms of performance Therefore, by taking body temperature at intervals of two hours throughout the period of wakefulness it can be seen how quickly a person can adapt to a reversed routine, and this could be used as basis for selection. So far, however, such a form of selection does not seem to have been applied in practice.
Why is the question of "how easily people can get used to working at night" not a mere academic question?
选项
A、Because few people like to reverse the cycle of sleep and wakefulness.
B、Because sleep normally coincides with the hours of darkness.
C、Because people are required to work at night in some fields of industry.
D、Because shift work in industry requires people to change their sleeping habits.
答案
D
解析
推理题。文章第二段第一、二句说到,自动化生产要求机器24小时不停的工作,工人也要分三班昼夜轮流工作,因而人们设法适应这种情况是实际生活的需要。因此选项D是答案。C选项说“在某些行业要上夜班”,并未提及倒班,所以不正确;选项A、B与文章没有关系。
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