IELTS reading inference Practice
The deficits from chronic sleep restriction are cumulative, meaning that subsequent nights of poor sleep...
Question type: sentence completion · Difficulty: advanced
- A. cause the person to feel increasingly sleepy.
- B. worsen the existing cognitive impairment.
- C. are less damaging than the first night of sleep loss.
- D. can be fully reversed by a single night of recovery sleep.
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Paragraph F describes the decline in cognitive performance under chronic sleep restriction as a 'progressive, cumulative decline.' This implies that each additional night of restricted sleep adds to the existing deficit, thereby worsening the impairment.