填空题 | Inadequate rest means a weaker ______ system, laying the body open to a whole ______ of illnesses. On the average a man needs seven hours of sleep a day and a woman seven and a ______ hours. Six hours of ______ sleep is better than ten hours of ______ and turning, however. People who sleep less than six hours a night are______ for an early death. Some people______ that they can get by with little sleep when necessary. But experts think these people are______ themselves. Between sleep______ and fatal accidents there is an obvious______ . People who get ______ sleep or poor quality sleep have a higher risk of ______ on the road. They are more likely to fall asleep at the ______ and kill people or get killed. Professional drivers and______ workers are most likely to take the ______ . The performance at work also ______ because of sleep deprivation. The pressures of work deprive people of sleep. To make it up, they try to______ catnaps. But experts are a little______ about the benefits of catnapping. They tell us that the catnap can never be a______ for proper sleep. For victims of ______ , catnapping in the day is the worst thing they can possibly do. |
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填空题 | Last year French drivers killed______ than 5,000 people on the roads for the first time in decades. Credit goes largely ______ the 1,000 automated radar cameras planted on the nation’s highways since 2003, which experts reckon ______ 3,000 lives last year. Success, of course breeds success: the government plans to install 500 ______ radar devices this year. So it goes with surveillance these days. Europeans used to look at the security cameras posted in British cities, subways and buses ______ the seeds of an Orwellian world that was largely unacceptable in Continental Europe. But last year’s London bombing, in which video cameras ______ a key role in identifying the perpetrators, have helped spur a sea change. A month ______ the London attacks, half of Germans supported EU-wide plans to require Internet providers and telecoms to store all e-mail, Internet and phone data for “anti-terror” ______ . In a British poll, 73 percent of respondents said they were ______ to give up some civil liberty to improve ______ . |
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