English Listening B2 Episode 01 - Track 06
Fill in the Blanks Exercise
TRACK 6
P: Matthew Walker researches how you spend of your life.
M: I'm a .
P: Actually, one of the world's . At the sleep science lies a puzzle. All these hours , eyes shut. Why? Why ? It's not just that it seems a waste of time.
M: Sleep actually seems to be the most idiotic of all things that human beings could do because when you're asleep, you're not finding a mate, you're not reproducing, you're not caring for your young, you're not finding food, and in fact, it's been suggested that if sleep doesn't , then it's the has ever made.
P: Managing eight hours' shut-eye is for me . And it turns out . There's evidence that in many parts of the developed world, we're . A poll in 1942 found Americans were a night.
M: Now, on a National Sleep Foundation survey, what they found was that the average adult in America was a night. In the United Kingdom it was . Japan perhaps the worst .
P: Only of Japanese adults, according to this survey, were getting or more.
TV P: Good morning, this is Diana Speed welcoming you to the network and reminding you that if you've forgotten that the clocks went forward last night so the time is now twenty past five on Sunday the of March.
P: Researchers have studied what happens in countries after clocks are in spring and autumn.
M: What they found was that in the spring, when we lose one hour of sleep, there was a relative increase in heart attacks the following day, whilst in the autumn, in the fall, when we gain an hour of sleep, there was actually a reduction in relative heart attack rates.
P: When the clocks go forward and we lose an hour's sleep, there are also more hospital admissions and .
It also turns out that during sleep, we're able to in the brain rather as though we were putting together the an IKEA furniture pack. Every language has a variation of the English phrase 'sleep on it', '.
'Dormici su, ... ,'
M: Yeah, I think there's probably a reason that no one has ever told you to .
