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IELTS Academic Reading Sample 96 - Making Time for Science

Cùng tham IELTS Academic Reading Sample 96 - Making Time for Science để các bạn ôn tập lại các kiến thức đã học, đánh giá năng lực làm bài của mình cũng như làm quen với cấu trúc đề thi để chuẩn bị kì thi được tốt hơn với số điểm cao như mong muốn. Chúc các bạn thi tốt! | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 13 which are based on Reading Passage 96 below. MAKING TIME FOR SCIENCE Chronobiology might sound a little futuristic like something from a science fiction novel perhaps but it s actually a field of study that concerns one of the oldest processes life on this planet has ever known short-term rhythms of time and their effect on flora and fauna. This can take many forms. Marine life for example is influenced by tidal patterns. Animals tend to be active or inactive depending on the position of the sun or moon. Numerous creatures humans included are largely diurnal that is they like to come out during the hours of sunlight. Nocturnal animals such as bats and possums prefer to forage by night. A third group are known as crepuscular they thrive in the lowlight of dawn and dusk and remain inactive at other hours. When it comes to humans chronobiologists are interested in what is known as the circadian rhythm. This is the complete cycle our bodies are naturally geared to undergo within the passage of a twenty-four hour day. Aside from sleeping at night and waking during the day each cycle involves many other factors such as changes in blood pressure and body temperature. Not everyone has an identical circadian rhythm. Night people for example often describe how they find it very hard to operate during the morning but become alert and focused by evening. This is a benign variation within circadian rhythms known as a chronotype. 5 Scientists have limited abilities to create durable modifications of chronobiological demands. ZIM ACADEMY Room 2501 Ocean Group Building 19 Nguyen Trai Thanh Xuan Dist Hanoi Recent therapeutic developments for humans such as artificial light machines and melatonin administration can reset our circadian rhythms for example but our bodies can tell the difference and health suffers when we breach these natural rhythms for extended periods of time. Plants appear no more malleable in this respect .