choose the answer (A, B, Cor D) which Yo answers on your exam sheet, ‘ 13. Read the text below. For questions 1-10, think fits best according to the text. Write your ae rot thet they're lazy, it's just that parents ang Now they have been given top-grade acadenj, efore slamming the bedroom door and going bac, of their inborn cycle of sleep ang As teenagers have long complained, it! schoolteachers don’t understand them. ammunition to hurl at annoying adults b i to bed — lying in bed for hours at the weekend is part wakefulness. It's circadian rhythms innit. AUS study published today in the journal “Paediatrics” found that early see starts Were forcing students to perform academically at a time of day when they were a : eir Worst, The researchers, from Northwestern University in Illinois, go s0 far as to describe the schoo, day as causing an “epidemic of sleep deprivation among adolescents . They say the weekeng tie-in enjoyed by so many young people is simply part of their natural cycle and should not be dismissed as laziness. Sixty students at Evanston Township high school in Illinois kept sleep diaries during school holidays and term-time as part of the study. Bright light was “administered” in the Morning (presumably by flinging open the curtains?) in an attempt to normalise the timing of the circadian cycle. This made no difference at all. They showed that adolescents lost as muchas two hours of sleep per night during their first week back at school after the summer holiday and made up at weekends by sleeping longer. All the students performed better in class during the afternoon than in the morning, observed the researchers who gave them computer and paper and pencil tests. The young people reported being wearier, less alert and having to make a greater effort in early morning classes. The researchers said that potential solutions to the problem included changing school start times and having tests later in the day. They said that doctors, parents, teachers and teenagers all needed to be aware of adolescents’ lifestyle patterns and their different steeping habits. “Knowledge of adolescent circadian rhythms could promote better family relationships if parents understood that sleeping late on weekends is part of their children’s in-born cycle and not ‘lazy’ or antisocial behaviour,” the researchers said. Early-morning light treatments did not modify the amount of sleep each student got each night, their mood, or the results of computer-administered Vigilance tests. All students performed better in the afternoon than in the morning. Students in early morning classes reported being wearier, being less alert, and having to expend greater effort. The North Western researchers conclude sternly: “The results of this study demonstrated that wih lay ceaton slop pave stents sane Te arty morhin * Students performed better later in the day than in song alee le neces pe ee of sleep Se rove health and maximize school perform=” ian cou (wwwguardian ©? Scanned with CamScannernagers 1 eneeuch lazier than before. fl usually slam doors in the mornings. c.are annoyed by teachers and parents. p.need alien at the weekend, arly school starts A force students to study harder. g, boost students’ test performance. C. compel students to be more responsible. D. diminish students’ performance. 2 3, Researchers claim that the school day A. brings about eating disorders. B. leads to an unhealthy lifestyle. C. causes great anxiety among students. D. limits the amount of sleep students get. 4, Sixty high school students A. refused to wake up early in the morning. B. took part in a sleep related study. C. complained about their schedule. D. protested against sleep deprivation. 5. Early-morning light treatments A. didn’t change the students’ circadian cycle. B. triggered better results. C. normalised the students’ circadian cycle. D. modified the students’ circadian cycle. 6. All the students A. performed better in the morning. B. got the same marks at tests. C. had better results in the afternoon. D. made a greater effort in afternoon classes. 7. A solution to the problem is A. reducing the number of classes. 8. having more classes in the afternoon. C. changing teenagers’ lifestyle pattern. 0, starting school not so early in the morning. Scanned with CamScanner