'Hotel 'snore patrol' to help guests sleep more soundly.'
Guests at an international hotel chain may sleep more soundly after the (1)_______ of "snore patrols" and "snore absorption rooms" at a number of sites worldwide.
Crowne Plaza is trialing the first "snore absorption" rooms at 10 hotels (2) _____ Europe and the Middle East, whilst six branches in Britain have implemented "snore patrols" (3) ____ month in a bid to combat noisy sleepers.
"Snore monitors" patrol corridors in the designated quiet zones of Crowne Plaza hotels in the cities of London, Leeds and Manchester. (4) ____ job is to listen out for offensive noises and knock on the door of guests who snore (5) ____ loudly.
"We have quiet zones on two floors of the hotel. As Snore Monitor, I conduct floor walks to check (6) ____ noise disruptions, paying particular attention to the quiet zone rooms," (7) _____ Laura Simpson, Snore Monitor at Leeds Crowne Plaza hotel in northern England.
"Guests can (8) _____ to stay in our quiet zone rooms if they are particularly light sleepers."
However, repeat offenders will be offered an alternative room away from the "quiet zone" for their (9) ______ stay.
"If guests do continue to make noise we will suggest that the quiet zone is not really an area for them, and that they would probably be better off in one of our normal rooms," Simpson said.
Snore-proof rooms (10) ________ an additional measure being tested by the hotel brand, owned by the InterContinental Hotels Group.
Guests in a "snore absorption room" can expect the latest snore control technology to reduce the repetitive noise. Sound proofing (11)_____ the walls and headboards, anti-snoring pillows and white noise machines are among the features designed to ease snoring.
"We've all been there -- lying wide awake at three o'clock in the morning burying our head (12)____ a pillow to drown out our partner's snoring," said Tom Rowntree, spokesman for Crowne Plaza.
"There's nothing worse than being kept up all night, that's why we've designed this specific snore absorption room to help give our guests a great night's sleep."
Snoring is caused by a partial blockage of the upper airway and affects four in 10 people in the United Kingdom, according to the British Snoring and Sleep Apnoea Association.
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Dreams
'We Spend Half Of Our Lives Daydreaming'
New research from America’s Harvard University shows people (1) ____ nearly half of their waking hours daydreaming, and not thinking about what they are actually doing. Moreover, they say this mind wandering is a sign (2) ____ unhappiness. The study, to (3) ____ published in the journal ‘Science,’ surveyed the thoughts and moods of over 2,200 volunteers. The (4) ____ downloaded an iPhone app and sent more than 250,000 messages during the day and night. Researchers Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert conclude (5) ____ most of us are in another world for more than 46 per cent of our waking hours, and that means we are unhappy: "A human mind is a wandering mind, and a (6) ____ mind is an unhappy mind,” they said.
Dr Killingsworth said “mind-wandering” was “ubiquitous across (7) ____ activities” in our daily lives. His study found that we are happiest (8) ____ exercising, chatting with friends or making love and least happy when working or using our computer at home. He added: "Mind-wandering is an excellent predictor of people's happiness,” and that “our mental (9) ____ are [filled], to a remarkable degree, by the non-present”. Professor Gilbert believes daydreaming is one of the (10) ____ that make us human. He said: “(11) ____ other animals, human beings spend a lot of time thinking about what is not going on around them, (12) ____ events that happened in the past, might happen in the future or will never happen at all.”
Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
| 1. | (a) | spends | (b) | spent | (c) | spending | (d) | spend |
| 2. | (a) | in | (b) | at | (c) | of | (d) | by |
| 3. | (a) | have | (b) | be | (c) | do | (d) | write |
| 4. | (a) | participants | (b) | participates | (c) | particulars | (d) | participles |
| 5. | (a) | what | (b) | then | (c) | that | (d) | this |
| 6. | (a) | withering | (b) | watching | (c) | wondering | (d) | wandering |
| 7. | (a) | every | (b) | all | (c) | each | (d) | whole |
| 8. | (a) | when | (b) | where | (c) | which | (d) | what |
| 9. | (a) | living | (b) | lives | (c) | livelihood | (d) | lifelike |
| 10. | (a) | happening | (b) | thing | (c) | things | (d) | something |
| 11. | (a) | Unlike | (b) | Likely | (c) | Disliked | (d) | Unlikely |
| 12. | (a) | contemplated | (b) | contemplates | (c) | contemplate | (d) | contemplating |
