Section A Directions:In this
section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements.
Read the passage carefully. Then answer" the questions or complete the
statements in the fewest possible words. Please write your answers on
Answer Sheet 2.
Marriage may improve your sleep, and better sleep may improve
your marriage, two new studies suggest. Women who are married or
who have stable partners appear to sleep better than women who have never
married or lost a partner, according to research from an eight-year study
presented at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies annual meeting. They
also found that marital (婚姻的) happiness lowers the risk of sleep problems, while
marital conflict heightens the risk. Although married women
overall slept more soundly than unmarried women, the researchers, from the
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, did identify a "newly-wed" effect.
Women who were single at the start of the study but gained a partner had more
restless sleep than women who were already married. The researchers speculated
that newly married women were less adjusted to sleeping with their partner than
those who had been married longer. The study included 360
middle-aged African-American, Caucasian (高加索的) and Chinese-American women who
had taken part in the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation. Researchers
used in-home sleep studies, activity monitors to track sleep-wake patterns and
relationship histories to look at the effect stable marriages, unstable
marriages and marital transitions, such as a divorce, had on sleep.
Another small study of 29 couples found that on a daily basis, the quality
of a couple’s relationship and the quality of their sleep are closely
linked. In that study, from the University of Arizona, 29
heterosexual (异性的) couples who shared a bed and did not have children completed
sleep and relationship diaries for a week. The results showed that when men get
better sleep, they are more likely to feel positive about their relationship the
next day. And for women, problems in the relationship were strongly associated
with poor sleep for both themselves and their partner. "When we
look at the data on a day-by-day basis, there seems to be a vicious cycle in
which sleep affects next-day relationship functioning, and relationship
functioning affects the subsequent night’s sleep," said principal investigator
Brant Hasler, a clinical psychology doctoral candidate at the University of
Arizona, in a press release. "In this cycle, conflict with one’s partner during
the day leads to worse sleep that night, which leads to more conflict the
following day." The data from both studies suggest that sleep
and relationship happiness are closely linked. The lesson for couples,
especially those who are struggling with problems, is that paying attention to
sleep habits may help solve other issues in the relationship. To see how states of marriage influenced sleep, researchers installed some equipment in subjects’ home to monitor their ______ and record how their relationships went.