PART C. READING (30 POINTS)

Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.

Wake up!

Do you find yourself going into work later and later every day just to sleep a little longer? Do you (56)…………….. asleep in the cinema, wake up and laugh at the wrong

moments? Do you spend half the weekend asleep and love it? Then you’re a sleepaholic.

Someone somewhere (57)……………..said that the average amount of sleep the average person wants is five minutes longer than they get. Being a sleepaholic is about wanting five hours longer. But sleepaholics can find that their habit gets them (58)……………..deep trouble with colleagues and friends. Being late for work because of oversleeping is a pretty poor story if you’re (59)……………..about a career. Friends can get (60)……………..offended if you leave them early to get some sleep.

Throughout history, ambitious people have often (61)……………..their enormous energy with a lack of need for sleep. It’s easy to see how this can give people a competitive advantage. So if you want to (62) ……………..advantage of career opportunities, or if you’ve just been criticized once too often about sleeping through the best bit of a party, what’s the (63) ……………..? A psychiatrist studied sleep needs and over time he claimed to (64)……………..his own daily sleep from a standard eight hours to two, saying he experienced no had reactions.

But if you really can’t (65)……………..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.

Do you find yourself going into work later and later every day just to sleep a little longer? Do you (56)…………….. asleep in the cinema,