Everybody sleeps, but what people stay up late to catch—or wake up early in

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问题     Everybody sleeps, but what people stay up late to catch—or wake up early in order not to miss— varies by culture.
    From data collected, it seems the things that cause us to lose the most sleep, on average, are sporting events, time changes, and holidays.
    Around the world, people changed sleep patterns thanks to the start or end of daylight savings time. Russians, for example, began to wake up about a half-hour later each day after President Vladimir Putin shifted the country permanently to "winter time" starting on October 26.
    Russia’s other late nights and early mornings generally correspond to public holidays. On New Year’s Eve, Russians have the world’s latest bedtime, hitting the hay at around 3:30 a. m.
    Russians also get up an hour later on International Women’s Day, the day for treating and celebrating female relatives.
    Similarly, Americans’ late nights, late mornings, and longest sleeps fall on three-day weekends.
    Canada got the least sleep of the year the night it beat Sweden in the Olympic hockey(冰球)final.
    The World Cup is also chiefly responsible for sleep deprivation(剥夺). The worst night for sleep in the U. K. was the night of the England-Italy match on June 14. Brits stayed up a half-hour later to watch it, and then they woke up earlier than usual the next morning thanks to summer nights, the phenomenon in which the sun barely sets in northern countries in the summertime. That was nothing, though, compared to Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup.
    It should be made clear that not everyone has a device to record their sleep patterns: in some of these nations, it’s likely that only the richest people do. And people who elect to track their sleep may try to get more sleep than the average person. Even if that’s the case, though, the above findings are still striking. If the most health-conscious among us have such deep swings in our shut-eye levels throughout the year, how much sleep are the rest of us losing? [br] What is the most probable reason for some rich people to use a device to record their sleep patterns?

选项 A、They have trouble falling asleep.
B、They want to get sufficient sleep.
C、They are involved in a sleep research.
D、They want to go to bed on regular hours.

答案 B

解析 事实细节题。文章最后一段前两句指出,并不是每个人都有设备记录自己的睡眠模式,在以上一些国家中,可能只有最富有的人才这样做;那些选择追踪自己睡眠的人也许是想要获得比普通人更多的睡眠。即富人记录自己睡眠模式最可能的原因是他们想要充足的睡眠,故本题答案为B)。
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