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2018年4月4日 中考频度：★★★★☆ 难易程度：★★★★☆ （2017﹒江苏南通）A We spend about one-third of our lives asleep. This may sound like a lot of time，but it is not wasted. Our bodies need sleep to stay healthy. Not getting enough sleep can make us sick. Sleep and our immune(免疫) system The immune system protects the body from diseases and infections(传染). Not getting enough sleep hurts this protective system. The Mayo Clinic is a research hospital in the United States. Its website explains that when we sleep our bodies produce proteins(蛋白质) that support sleep and help us fight infections. They add that infection-fighting antibodies(抗体) are reduced during periods when you don’t get enough sleep. A new study from the University of Washington in the U.S. seems to confirm this. Dr. Nathaniel Watson was the lead writer of the study. Watson says his study shows that the immune system works best when the body gets enough sleep. For the study，Watson and his team studied 11 pairs of twins. This is an important difference from other sleep studies. Other research did not study twins. Researchers found that the twin who slept less had a weaker immune system. Watson says his study showed for the first time that a long-term lack(缺乏) of sleep shuts down parts of the immune system. He says parts that move white blood cells around the body are influenced. White blood cells fight infections in the body. Watson’s study provides more evidence(证据) that sleep is important to ＂overall health＂. And sleep is especially important to immune health. The researchers published their findings in the magazine Sleep. How much sleep is enough? To stay in good health，experts at the Mayo Clinic say that adults should get 7 to 8 hours of sleep. Teenagers need 9 to 10 hours. And school-aged children may need more than 10 hours of sleep a night. Experts say our sleep becomes poor in our 30s. By the time we reach our 50s，the average person has lost 50 percent of their ability to have a restful sleep. These people also have