Task 1. Read the article about sleep. Choose the best word (A/B/C) for each space. Everybody (1) that cats love sleeping. They spend half of their (2) asleep and enjoy every minute of it. Other animals (3) very different sleeping habits, how ever. For example, (4) horses may not look like they (5) asleep, but they are! Horses only spend three hours asleep (6) day and they do it standing up! Fish sleep for about seven hours but they too have strange habits - they don't close their eyes to sleep. So, what about people? Most (7) us sleep for about a third of our lives. But the (8) of hours we sleep depend on the age. Newborn babies sleep a lot - about seventeen hours in every twenty four. Children need about eleven hours and grown-ups sleep for about eight hours every night. But you're not just asleep - you're not really doing nothing. (9) happens during sleep. Dreams are one way that the mind rests after a busy day. 1. A know B knows C knew 2. A life B lifes C lives 3. A have B has C had 4. A any B some C much 5. A be B were C are 6. A the Ba C no article 7. A of B for C about 8. A many B most C number 9. A A lot B A lot of C Many