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Book 4 Unit 3 A taste of English humour 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　.阅读理解 “I can’t find my sunglasses in broad daylight，but I can find the snooze button(止闹按钮) on my alarm，even if it is a meter away with both eyes closed，heavy with sleep.” This is the closing line of an article I read on sleep recently.The moment I read it，it reminded me almost everybody longs for those extra few moments of sleep everyday. However，the “I am very sleepy” phase reaches its peak during one’s teenage.Teens are often badly blamed for staying up late and falling asleep in class. The one thing that I will never forget about my school days is the lack of sleep.Because of assignments，we hardly used to get 5～6 hours every day so once or twice a month we used to take a day off just to sleep.Though I never fell asleep during class I used to feel tired all the time.Once a classmate fell asleep as she was sitting and drafting patterns.Another classmate once fell asleep while she stopped her car at a signal and woke up only when everybody was honking around her. It is a fact that teens and young adults require around 9.5 hours of sleep per night.During the teen years，the body’s internal biological clock is temporarily reset，telling a person to fall asleep later and wake up later. Though this seems like a valid(正当的) excuse，it is not at all useable.For teen years are usually our busiest years coinciding with board exams，cultural and sport activities，and college admissions.Even when we feel irritated，we have to get up and be out there. Recently，some researchers have suggested middle school classes begin later in the morning to meet teens’ need for more sleep.Of course that’s not going to happen soon，so we’d have to make our own adjustments to avoid sleep loss.If you can’t sleep at night，my advice would be to read a boring book or a subject book that you find less interesting so you would be asleep in no time. 1．The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to . A．tell us about teenagers’ loss of slee