Section D In this section, you will hear two short passages.

The passages will be read only once.

After each passage, there will be a one-minute pause. During the pause, write the answers on the answer sheet.

Dictation Listen to the passage. For questions 21~25, fill in the blanks with the exact words and phrases you hear.

Experts now realize that sleep loss is dangerous and that night shift always results in sleep loss.

Most people need 8 hours of sleep a day to feel rested.

Parts of the night are spent in light sleep stages and the other parts of the night are spent in deep sleep stages.

If you work the night shift and sleep during the day, there're many things that can disturb your deep sleep and awaken you during your light sleep phase.

Noise is the biggest problem.

Daytime sleepers have to contend with noisy neighbours, children, traffic, lawn mowers and such.