Question

I. Read the following passage carefully:
SLEEP
1) Nobody knows why we sleep, but we all need to. There are no rules about how much
sleep is necessary but the average adult sleeps for 7 hours 20 minutes. About 8% of
adults are happy with 5 hours or less and 4% want 10 hours or more. Babies need
between 14 to 18 hours whereas the elderly need less than they did when young but
often take a nap during the day.
2) If you miss a couple of hours of sleep, no harm is done. You may feel tired and
irritable the next day but the body soon makes up for the loss. If you try to stay
awake night after night however, you soon begin to behave strangely. You lose the
ability to concentrate and your judgement is impaired. You begin to imagine strange
things and your behavior becomes deranged.
3) There are a number of causes for sleeplessness. Worry and depression are the most
common. All kinds of things in the environment can affect sleep – noise, light, heat,
cold, new surroundings, etc. Pain in illness can also keep people awake. Many people
become addicted to their sleeping pills but sleeping pills do not deal with the causes of
insomnia and it is better to avoid them if you can. It is much better to identify the
problem and remove it.
Read the given questions and mark the option you consider the most appropriate:5 x 1 = 5M
a. Which of the following statement is ‘True’? [ ]
(i) On an average an adult sleeps for 8 hours and 20 minutes.
(ii) If not slept properly for few hours, one is unable to concentrate and starts behaving
peculiarly.
(iii) If one stays awake night after night, he soon begins to imagine strange things.
(iv) Worry and depression are not the causes of sleeplessness rather they are results of
sleeplessness.
b. If one does not sleep for sufficient number of hours, one may:
(i) feel tired and irritable the next day. (ii) not behave in a deranged manner.
(iii) not lose the ability to concentrate (iv) all the above
c. Which of the following is a solution to sleeplessness?
(i) Addiction to sleeping pills
(ii) Taking required sleep
(iii) Avoiding light, heat, noise, etc. for a sound sleep
(iv) Avoiding sleeping pills and find the problem and solving it.
d. If some days sleep is missed, no harm is done. What harm is being talked about?
(i) Physical harm (ii) Mental harm
(iii) Psychological harm. (iv) Both (ii) and (iii)
e. Which word in the passage stands for ‘sleeping disorder’?
(i) Deranged (ii) Insomnia (iii) Nap (iv) Depression

Answer 1

a.worry and depression are not the causes of sleeplessness rather they are the results of sleeplessness.
b.feel tired and irritable the next day.
c.Avoiding sleeping pills and find the problem and solving it.
d.Mental harm
e.Insomnia

Answer 2

Answers for the above questions are as follows:

a) The true statement is

4) Worry and depression are not the causes of sleeplessness rather they are the results of sleeplessness.

b) If one does not sleep for a sufficient number of hours one may feel tired and irritable the next day.

c) The solution for the sleeplessness is avoiding sleeping pills and find the problem and solving it.

d) If some days sleep is missed no mental harm is done.

e) The word in the above passage stands for sleeping disorder is Insomnia.