Have you ever experienced tossing and turning (辗转反侧) in bed late at night while counting sheep Do you often rely on sleeping pills About one third of your life is spent asleep, but do you really enjoy good and healthy sleep Unfortunately, about one third of adults suffer from insomnia (失眠症). According to a recent survey taken of 10 000 Shanghai people, more than 70% of locals have sleep disorders of one kind or another. The results show that about 36.5% of interviewees don’t have good sleep; 45.3% wake up very early in the morning and 54.3% feel sleepy during the day. Without drink or food, one can survive for 7 days; but without sleep, one can only last 4 days. Babies sleep for at least 16 hours a day because their brains and bodies develop faster during sleep. After that, the sleep period gets shorter. Beyond the age of 10, most people need fewer than 10 hours sleep a night. For the elderly, 6 or 7 hours is usually enough. High-quality and sufficient sleep ensures an e
A. the comparison between babies and the elderly
B. the result of the survey recently taken in Shanghai
C. the importance of high-quality and sufficient sleep
D. the positive and negative effect of sufficient sleep
Text 4 Britain’s bosses would have you believe that business in Britain is groaning under red tape and punitive tax levels, inhibiting enterprise and putting British firms at a disadvantage compared with overseas competitors. As usual, reality paints a far different picture from the tawdry image scrawled by the CBI and Tory frontbenchers. Not only do British businesses pay lower levels of corporation tax than their counterparts abroad but they benefit from the most savage legal hamstringing of trade unionism. But boardroom fat cats in Britain have one further advantage over their competitors, which is their total inability to feel any sense of shame. The relatively poor performance since the 1990s of pension investment funds, overseen by the top companies themselves, has brought about a wide-ranging cull of occupational pension schemes. Final salary schemes have been axed in favour of money purchase or have been barred to new employees and, in many companies, staff h
A. the bosses
B. the government
C. the CPAG
D. the employees
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