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The popular notion that older people need less sleep than younger adults is a myth, scientists said yesterday. While elderl

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问题     The popular notion that older people need less sleep than younger adults is a myth, scientists said yesterday.
    While elderly people【B1】______to sleep for fewer hours than they did when they were younger, this has a(n) 【B2】______effect on their brains performance and they would benefit from getting more, according to research.
    Sean Drummond, a psychiatrist(心理医生)at the University of California, San Diego, said that older people are more likely to suffer from broken sleep, while younger people are better at sleeping【B3】______straight through the night.
    More sleep in old age, however, is【B4】______with better health, and most older people would feel better and more【B5】______if they slept for longer periods, he said.
    "The ability to sleep in one chunk(整块时间)overnight goes down as we age but the amount of sleep we need to【B6】______well does not change, " Dr. Drummond(old the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Diego.
    "It’s【B7】______a myth that older people need less sleep. The more healthy an older adult is, the more they sleep like they did when they were【B8】______. Our data suggests that older adults would benefit from【B9】______to get as much sleep as they did in their 30s. That’s【B10】______from person to person, but the amount of sleep we have at 35 is probably the same amount as we need at 75. "
A. alert
B. associated
C. attracting
D. continuing
E. definitely
F. different
G. efficiently
H. function
I. mixed
J. negative
K. tend
L. younger
【B2】
选项
答案J
解析 空格前面为冠词a(n)，后面为名词effect，所以空格处需要填入形容词，修饰其后的名词。根据句意，and连接的两个并列，句在句意上存在对比关系，and后的句子指出，老年人也许能够通过增加睡眠时间让他们的身体受益，而and前的句子的状语从句中指出，老年人的睡眠时间往往比年轻时少，所以推测结果是对身体有不利影响。由此确定negative“负面的，不利的”为本题答案。
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