問題詳情
Birds do it. Cats do it. And Spaniards most especially do it—every day, in broad daylight. They nap. 47 Fromone or two o’clock to 4:30 or so every afternoon, Spain stops the world for a stroll home, a leisurely meal, and a few z’s.Common Market technocrats have informed the Spanish that this is not the way things will get done in a unified Europe.At a time when productivity is the world’s largest religion, the siesta tradition lives on. 48 No task is so criticalthat it cannot wait a couple of hours while you attend to more important matters like eating, relaxing, or catching up onsleep. When the midday break hits, offices empty and streets clear. Befuddled foreigners quickly learn that they haveentered a new circadian order.Taking a long break in the middle of the day is not only healthier than the conventional lunch; it is apparently morenatural. 49 Studies suggest that humans are “biphasic” creatures, requiring days broken up by two periods of sleepinstead of one “monophasic” shift. The drowsiness you feel after lunch comes not from the food but from the time of theday.“All animals, including humans, have a biological rhythm,” explains Claudio Stampi, director of the Chrono BiologyResearch Institute in Newton, Massachusetts. “One is a 24-hour rhythm—we get tired by the end of the day and go tosleep—and there is a second peak of sleepiness and a decrease in alertness in the early afternoon. 50 For others it isless difficult, but it is there. So there is a biological reason for siestas.”
【題組】47
(A)Some people have difficulty remaining awake, doing any sort of task between one and four in the afternoon.
(B)Grown adults—executives, teachers, and civil servants—wink off in the middle of the workday.
(C)In Spain, work operates under the command of life, instead of the other way around.
(D)The Spanish need a long sleep after a day of hard work.
參考答案
答案：B
難度：困難0.235294
統計：A(4),B(4),C(5),D(4),E(0)