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Ⅰ.阅读理解 A 词数 300 难度系数 ★★★ 建议用时 6′ Few of us make money by losing sleep.But three graduate students at Brown University in Providence built a company around sleep deprivation. Jason Donahue，Ben Rubin and Eric Shashoua were working late nights in Browns business and engineering schools—and began thinking about ways to sleep better.They discovered they werent alone in burning the midnight oil.Around 20% of Americans get less than six hours of rest a night. The friends imagined a smart alarm clock that could track how much time we spend in the most restorative(促使康复的) stages of the sleep cycle：REM(快速眼动) and deep sleep.What would it cost to design such a thing？Five years of research,20 employees，$ 14 million in funding and a whole lot of doubting from investors and scientists. The company，Zeo, based in Newton，Mass.，launched its product in June.The Zeo device uses a headband with tiny sensors(传感器) that scan your brain for signs of four sleep states：REM，light，deep and waking sleep.The smart alarm clock displays a graph of your sleep pattern and wakes you as youre transitioning out of REM sleep (which is when youre least sleepy). In the morning you can upload the data to the companys website，and so track your sleep over time.The cost，$ 399，includes six months access to one of Zeos online sleep coaches.Most of the feedback comes in the form of Zeos ZQ score showing how well youve slept. “Zeo allows people to unlock this black box of sleep，”says Dave Dickinson，a health-care CEO. Whether any of this actually improves sleep is up to the consumer，who will also need to make lifestyle changes like cutting out alcohol before bedtime or caffeine after 3 p．m.. For now the company is selling Zeo online only.Dickinson also plans to expand to countries such as Australia，where sleep deprivation approaches US levels. 一、新新单词 deprivation // n．　　丧失，剥夺；贫困 feedback // n. 反馈的意见(或信息) 二、常用短语 allow sb.to do sth. 允许某人做某事 cut out 停止；切断；删去 三、靓点句式 Whether any of this actually improves sleep is up to