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

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

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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【C1】______to sleep for fewer hours than they did when they were younger, this has a(n) 【C2】______ effect on their brain’ s 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 older people are more likely to suffer from broken sleep, while younger people are better at sleeping 【C3】______ straight through the night.
   More sleep in old age, however, is【C4】______with better health, and most older people would feel better and more 【C5】______ if they slept for longer periods, he said.
   "The ability to sleep in one chunk (整段时间) overnight goes down as we age but the amount of sleep we need to【C6】______well does not change," Dr. Drummond told the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Diego.
   "It’s【C7】______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【C8】______. Our data suggests that older adults would benefit from 【C9】______ to get as much sleep as they did in their 30s. That’ s【C10】______from person to person, but the amount of sleep we had at 35 is probably the same amount as we need at 75."
   A) alert B) associated C) attracting D) cling
   E) continuing F) definitely G) different H) efficiently
   I) formally J) function K) mixed L) negative
   M) sufficient N) tend O) younger
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答案O
解析 文章全篇都在讲，年轻人睡得时间长，随着年龄增长睡得时间会越来越少，这样会影响健康，根据like一词可以推测这里是在对比，逻辑上可以推断如果老人睡得越像年轻时一样多，就越健康，故选younger。
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