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According to the study in the journal Sleep, what disease will those people with snoring problems be more likely to suffer from？
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Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Directions: In this part you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1～7 , choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8～10, complete the sentences with the in formation given in the passage.
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Snorers(打鼾的人) have always been made jokes. In cartoons, their nasal(鼻子的)roar lifts the roof off houses. In situation comedies, there's the wife who rolls her eyes at her snoring bedmate. But in reality, it's not all that funny. In fact, snoring can be a nightmare for snorers and their troubled partners, who may wake up several times a night to poke, and maybe hoist loved ones onto their sides for a little relief.
Risks of Snoring Problems
But the nightly racket is more than a potential relationship strain. According to the latest research, an increasingly older and heavier population may make this condition an even greater a health risk than we previously thought. For Maggie Moss-Tucker, successful treatment for a longtime snoring problem came almost by accident. One fall morning in 2005, she saw a sign at her local gym seeking snorers as volunteers for a study at Boston's Brigham & Women's Hospital. Moss-Tucker, now 56, was intrigued. She had started snoring nearly a decade earlier. "I'd tried everything to stop," she says, from sleeping upright to using nose strips or a mouth guard. But to her and her husband's dismay, nothing worked. When she signed up for the study and spent a night at a suburban Boston sleep lab, she found out why.
After reviewing her sleep patterns and oxygen levels, researchers told her that her snoring was actually an indication of something worse. She suffered from a sleep apnea(呼吸暂停), a condition in which patients stop breathing repeatedly as they sleep and can wake up as many as 100 times a night often without remembering it. That kind of revelation has led to doctors re-evaluating a condition once treated as little more than a nuisance. "In the past, snoring has been treated like a joking matter; you never talked about it with your doctor, "says Dr. David Rapoport, medical director of the Sleep Disorders Center at New York University Medical Center. "But when it becomes very prominent or such that it wakes you up or interferes with breathing, it can be a problem."
Sleep apnea, in which the airway becomes blocked or, less often, the brain fails to properly control breathing during sleeping, can be viewed as one extreme of the snoring spectrum. Soft snoring, which is not generally considered a health hazard, would be at the other end. As the sound and persistence of a patient's snoring grows, so do the health concerns. A study published in the March 1 issue of the journal Sleep found that loud snorers had a 40 percent greater risk than non-snorers of suffering from high blood pressure, 34 percent greater odds of having a heart attack and a 67 percent greater chance of having a stroke.
That's a problem given the number of noisy sleepers out there. In a recent poll by the National Sleep Foundation, about one third of US working adults reported snoring at least a few nights in the previous month. Snoring generally worsens with age so the rate is even higher among the elderly. And, contrary to common perceptions, it's nearly as common in women as men. Menopause(更年期) appears to be a factor, as is weight. Being overweight can cause thickness in the airway tube, holding back the flow of oxygen.
Treatment of Snoring Problems
Yet many who regularly snore don't realize that it could be bad for their health. The research linking hypertension, cardiac problems and loud snoring is relatively new. And though awareness of s
听力原文：News Item Two
The CIA said the taped message attributed to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden appears to be authentic, following the agency's analysis of the recording.
"After conducting a technical analysis, the CIA assesses the voice on the audiotape aired today on Arab TV is likely bin Laden," a Central Intelligence Agency official said.
The tape, aired earlier Thursday by Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television, offered peace to European countries which refrain from aggression toward Muslims and which pull their troops out of the Muslim world.
It also vowed to avenge Israel's March 22 killing of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas.
The CIA official said the message "was probably recorded in the last several weeks, given the reference to the death of Yassin.
It was unclear whether the author of the ambiguously worded message was offering a truce or issuing an ultimatum with the appeal to European nations.
"We would assess it could be an attempt by bin Laden or al-Qaeda to drive a wedge between Europe and us,given the content of the message, and also probably a propaganda ploy to bolster al-Qaeda supporters," the CIA official said.
The audio-tape was shown on TV on_________.
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.
听力原文：News Item One
A confessed serial killer set to be released from a Texas prison in less than two years agreed Wednesday to be transported to Michigan to face a murder charge for a 1979 slaying.
State District Judge William McAdams said he would allow Coral Eugene Watts to first finish medical treatment he was scheduled to receive in Texas.
Walker County District Attorney David Weeks said Watts could complete the treatment and be returned to Michigan within days.
In 1982, Watts admitted he killed 13 women. But he received immunity for the slayings and went to prison for burglary with intent to commit murder. Prosecutors said they were short on hard evidence and intent on closing the open murder cases.
At the time, they and the judge also thought a 60-year prison term would keep Watts behind bars until he was in his 80s. But mandatory release laws require Watts' discharge on May 8, 2006, when he will be 52.
Michigan and Texas authorities have worked for months to keep Watts behind bars. In March, the Michigan attorney general announced a murder charge had been filed against Watts for the 1979 killing of Helen Dutcher in a Detroit suburb. The charge was prompted by a witness who surfaced more than two decades later.
Watts has been imprisoned for years on a charge of_________.
1 A folk culture is a small isolated, cohesive, conservative, nearly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race with a strong family or clan structure and highly developed rituals. Order is maintained through sanctions based in the religion or family and interpersonal relationships are strong. Tradition is paramount, and change comes infrequently and slowly. There is relatively little division of labor into specialized duties. Rather, each person is expected to perform. a great variety of tasks, though duties may differ between the sexes. Most goods are handmade and subsistence economy prevails. Individualism is weakly developed in folk cultures, as are social classes. Unaltered folk cultures no longer exist in industrialized countries such as the United States and Canada.
2 Perhaps the nearest modern equivalent in America is the Amish, a German American farming sect that largely renounces the products and labor saving devices of the industrial age. In Amish areas, horse drawn buggies still serve as a local transportation device and the faithful are not permitted to own automobiles. The Amish's central religious concept of Demut "humility" clearly reflects the weakness of individualism and social class so typical of folk cultures and there is a corresponding strength of Amish group identity. Rarely do the Amish marry outside their sect. The religion, a variety of the Mennonite faith, provides the principal mechanism for maintaining order.
3 By contrast a popular culture is a large heterogeneous group often highly individualistic and constantly changing. Relationships tend to be impersonal and a pronounced division of labor exists, leading to the establishment of many specialized professions. Secular institutions of control such as the police and army take the place of religion and family in maintaining order, and a money-based economy prevails. Because of these contrasts, "popular" may be viewed as clearly different, from "folk". The popular is replacing the folk in industrialized countries and in many developing nations. Folk-made objects give way to their popular equivalent, usually because the popular item is more quickly or cheaply produced, is easier or time saving to use or lends more prestige to the owner.
Which of the following statements is NOT true of a folk culture？
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