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Marriage may improve your sleep, and better sleep may improve your marriage, two new studies suggest. Women who are married

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问题     Marriage may improve your sleep, and better sleep may improve your marriage, two new studies suggest.
    Women who are married or who have stable partners(1)_____ to sleep better than women who have never married or(2)_____ a partner, according to research from an eight-year study(3)_____ at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies annual meeting. They also found that marital(婚姻的)happiness lowers the risk of sleep problems,(4)_____ marital disharmony heightens the risk and women who were single(5)_____ the start of the study but gained a partner had more(6)_____ sleep than women who were(7)_____ married.
    The study included 360 middle-aged women. Researchers used in-home sleep studies, activity monitors to(8)_____ sleep-wake patterns and relationship histories to look at the(9)_____ stable marriages, unstable marriages and marital changes, such as a(10)_____ had on sleep.
    Another small study of 29 couples found that on a(11)_____ basis, the quality of a couple’s relationship and the quality of their sleep are closely linked.
    In that study, from the University of Arizona, 29 couples who(12)_____ a bed and did not have children(13)_____ sleep and relationship diaries for fifteen days. The results showed that(14)_____ men get better sleep, they are more likely to feel (15)_____ about their relationship the next day. (16)_____ for women, problems in the relationship were strongly(17)_____ with poor sleep for both themselves and their partner.
    The(18)_____ from both studies suggest that sleep and relationship happiness are closely linked. The lesson for couples,(19)_____ those who are struggling with problems, is that paying attention to sleep habits may help(20)_____ other issues in the relationship.
(17)
选项 A、complied
B、associated
C、bound
D、contacted
答案B
解析 结合选项，推断此处要表达“紧密联系”，根据空格前的were，故选associated。complywith“遵守”：bound可用于搭配be bound upwith，表示“与……有密切的关系”；而contacted强调人与人之间的联系。
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