英語長文 空所補充問題（9）
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How much sleep do we need? Different age groups need different amounts of sleep. Research suggests that most healthy adults need seven to nine hours of sleep each night. Children and ( 1 ) need more sleep than adults. However, our need for sleep is also an ( 2 ) characteristic. In other words, the amount of sleep you need to feel your best may be different for you than for someone who is the same age and ( 3 ). While you may feel good after sleeping just 7 hours a night, someone else may need 8 or 9 hours. How much sleep we need and when we sleep best are ( 4 ) by our own biological clock.
How are teenagers different from adults? Teachers have long ( 5 ) that many teens come to school too sleepy to pay attention to their early morning classes. According to sleep ( 6 ), teens need at least 8.5-9.25 hours of sleep each night, which is more than the average of 7 to 9 hours for most adults. In ( 7 ) to adults, the biological clock of teenagers keeps them awake later at night and keeps them sleeping later in the morning. Unfortunately, many schools begin classes early in the morning, when a teenager’s body wants to be asleep. As a result, many teens come to school too sleepy to ( 8 ) and study well.
If we miss a night’s sleep, can we catch up later? The amount of sleep we regularly need to feel and do our best is called our “basal sleep need.” When we sleep too little or have our sleep disturbed, we accumulate a “sleep debt.” Although we may ( 9 ) our basal sleep need on a single night or for a few nights in a ( 10 ), we will feel sleepy and less alert if we have not paid off our sleep debt. It seems that by sleeping more, we can pay off this debt. However, the interaction between basal sleep and sleep debt is not yet well understood by scientists so more research is needed.
(1)~(10)に適語を下から選べ。
gender row individual experts adolescents
meet contrast concentrate observed determined
解答
1 adolescents 若者
=teenagers
juvenile delinquency
少年犯罪
2 individual 個々の
generalが反対語.
3 gender 性
transgenderの権利を認めなければなりません。
4 determined
（体内時計によって）決められる
5 observed
（教師はずっと）観察してきた・・・
授業中眠る子は本当に多いです。
増えています。
ホルモンバランスが良くないせいだそうです。
午前11時の始業がよいという意見もあります。
6 experts
（睡眠の）専門家
7 contrast 対比
In contrast to(with) ~
～と比べて
8 concentrate 集中する
concentration 集中
9 meet
meet …need
必要性を満たす。
meet=satisfy
meet demands
需要を満たす
10 row
in a row 連続で
consecutivelyは固い表現
最近は、back-to-back home runs(homers)をよく聞きます。
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