B2 Use of English Test 21 – multiple choice gaps

Teenagers really do need more sleep

It has long been suspected that lack of sleep can actually (1)…………… to illness, particularly in young people. Research (2)…………… students aged 14–19 over a three-week period now appears to (3)…………… this.

The teenagers wore devices that recorded the movements they made, without being (4)…………… of them, that indicated they were asleep. The results were then (5)…………… to the number of illnesses that they had (6)…………… from during the three weeks, in addition to the number of occasions on which they had been (7)…………… from school.

What the study showed was that students who slept fewer than seven hours a night caught colds, flu and other relatively (8)…………… illnesses more often. The problem is that as children enter their teens their natural sleeping patterns change, (9)…………… in them going to sleep later and therefore wanting to wake up later – but they still have to get up in the morning to go to school.

1   A   cause            B   bring               C   lead                D   make

2   A   enclosing     B   combining     C   associating    D   involving

3   A   assure           B   confirm         C   defend            D   justify

4   A   awake           B   aware             C   familiar          D   sensitive

5   A   compared    B   measured      C   balanced       D   qualified

6   A   caught          B   affected         C   suffered         D   experienced

7   A   outside         B   remote           C   distant           D   absent

8   A   light               B   minor             C   smaller          D   slight

9   A   resulting       B   producing      C   finishing        D   forcing