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Thanks in part to technology and its constant sounding and ringing, roughly

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问题     Thanks in part to technology and its constant sounding and ringing, roughly 41 million people in the United States—nearly a third of all working adults—get six hours or fewer of sleep a night, according to a recent report.
    【C1】______, mention of our ever increasing sleeplessness is followed by calls for earlier bedtimes【C2】______a longer night’s sleep. But this directive may be【C3】______of the problem. 【C4】______ helping us to get more rest, the tyranny of the eight-hour block【C5】______ a narrow conception of sleep and how we should 【C6】______ it. Doctors who peddle sleep aid products and call for more sleep may【C7】______ reinforce the idea that there is something wrong about interrupted sleep【C8】______. Sleep anxiety is a common result. Some of the time we spend 【C9】______and turning may even result from 【C10】______about sleep and our bodily needs.
    Thomas A. Wehr, a psychiatrist【C11】______ at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md. , was conducting an experiment in which subjects were deprived of【C12】______ light. Without the illumination and【C13】______ from light bulbs, televisions or computers, the subjects slept【C14】______the night, at least at first. But, after a while, Dr. Wehr noticed that subjects began to wake up a little after midnight, lie awake for a couple of hours, and then【C15】______ back to sleep again.
    It seemed that,【C16】______a chance to be free of modem life, the body would naturally settle into a【C17】______sleep schedule.【C18】______ they broke their conception of what form sleep should【C19】______, they looked forward to the time in the middle of the night as a chance for deep thinking of all kinds,【C20】______in the form of self-reflection or getting a jump on the next day. [br] 【C18】
选项 A、While
B、Once
C、Since
D、Though
答案 B
解析 语篇衔接题。根据上下文判断，此处应填表示条件的连词，[B]Once“一旦……”符合句意，故为正确答案。[A]While“当……时；然而，虽然”、[C]Since“自……以来；因为；既然”和[D]Though“尽管，虽然”皆不符合文意，故排除。
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