Surrey Sleep Research Centre - Module 4

C1 Advanced · Word Formation · Advanced Expert Student's Resource Book, Pearson Education

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.

DISRUPT

EFFECT

AVAILABILITY

ABLE

EXPOSE

TREAT

SUFFICE

HIGH

Sleep disorders are very (0) ___ in today's world, with up to 20 percent of the European and US population reporting frequent sleep (1) ___ . Unfortunately, (2) ___ strategies to alleviate sleep complaints and disorders are often (3) ___ . That is why the Surrey Sleep Research Centre in the UK is so important. The Centre offers a range of state-of-the-art equipment, (4) ___ of recording and analysing both sleep patterns and sleep disorders. The centre is engaged in various types of sleep research, covering fascinating areas, including the regulation of human sleep by our internal body clock and the effects of (5) ___ to light on sleep patterns. It is also investigating the causes, consequences and (6) ___ of the sleep disorders experienced by shift workers, frequent long-distance air travellers and blind people, as well as the effects of (7) ___ sleep on cognition, mood and metabolism. The centre's groundbreaking sleep studies are published in (8) ___ respected academic journals and its academics frequently appear on television and feature in the international news media.

Surrey Sleep Research Centre

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