POPULATION GROWTH RATES VARY AMONG REGIONS AND EVEN AMONG COUNTRIE...

22. Population growth rates vary among regions and even among countries within the

same region

A. Come up

B. Stay unchanged

C. Remain unstable

D. Go down

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to

indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks

It has long been suspected that lack of sleep can actually lead to illness, particularly in

young people. Research involving students aged 14-19 over a three-week period now

appears to confirm (23) ……...

The teenagers wore devices that recorded the movements they made, without being

(24)... of them, that indicated they were asleep. The results were then compared to the

number of illnesses that they had (25)... from during the three weeks, in addition to

the number of occasions on which they had been absent from school.

What the study showed was that students who slept (26)... than seven hours a night

caught colds, flu and other relatively minor illnesses more often The problem is that as

children enter their teens their natural sleeping patterns change, (27) ………. in them

going to sleep later and therefore wanting to wake up later - but they still have to get up

in the morning to go to school.