The Sleepers
There are times when people are so 1______(tiredness) that they fall asleep almost anywhere. We can see there is a lot of sleeping on the bus or train on the way home from work in the evenings. A man will be reading the newspaper, and seconds later it appears as if he is trying to eat it. Or he will fall asleep on the shoulder of the 2______(strange) sitting next to him. Another place where 3______(planned) short sleep goes on is in the lecture hall where a student will start snoring (打鼾)so 4______(loud) that the professor has to ask another student to shake the sleeper 5______(wake). A more embarrassing (尴尬)situation occurs when a student starts falling into sleep and the 6______(weigh) of the head pushes the arm off the desk, and the 7______(move) carries the rest of the body along. The student wakes up on the floor with no 8______(memorize) of getting there. The 9______(bad) time to fall asleep is when driving. Police reports are full of accidents that occur when people fall into sleep and go off the road. If the drivers are lucky, they are not 10______(serious) hurt. One woman's car, for example, went into the river. She woke up in four feet of water and thought it was raining. When people are really tired, nothing will stop them from falling asleep—no matter where they are.
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