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Passage 41 Apology Helps It is never easy to admit you are in the wrong. Being human, we all n eed to know the art of apologizing. Look back with honesty and think how often you have judged roughly, you said unkind things, and pushed yourself ahead at the expense of a friend. Then count the occasions when you indicated clearly and truly that you were so sorry. A bit fr ightening, isn t it? It is frightening, isn t it? It is frightening because some deep wisdom in us knows that when even a small wrong has been committed, some mysterious moral feeling is disturbed; and it s tays out of balance until fault is acknowledged and regret expressed. A heartfelt apology can not only heal a damaged relationship but also make it stronger. If you can think of someone who deserves an apolog y from you, someone you have wronged, or judged too roughly, or just neglected, do something about it right now. Useful Words and Expressions: push ahead 捉紧进行 at the expense of 在损害 ,, 的情况下 mysterious 神秘的 moral 道德的 disturbed 扰乱的 stay out of 不参与,, ，置身于 ,, 之外 heartfelt 衷心的，真心真意的 roughly 粗糙地，概略地 Passage 42 Sleep Why is it so difficult to fall asleep when you are overtired? There i s no one answer that applies to every individual. It is possible to f eel “ tired ” physically and still be unable to fall asleep, because while your body may be exhausted, you do not feel sleepy. It is not s o easy to simply “ turn off ”. Lack of sleep complicates matters even more. Experts say adults need at least seven to eight hours of sleep a night to function properly. When you get less sleep than that on consecutive three nights, you be gin to accrue four “sleep debt ”. As sleep debt increases your body experiences a stress response. Now a vicious cycle has been created: You experience the feeling of being more and more tired, but your bod y is increasingly stimulated. “ Power sleeping ” for more hours on we ekends is only a temporary solution. There is no substitute for getti ng a good night s sleep on a regular