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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容 (1个单词) 或括号内单词的正确形式。

A company in the USA is paying its workers to sleep more. Staff at the insurance company Aetna will get $300 a year 1 (add) to their salary if they get at least seven hours of sleep a night. They will get just over a dollar for each night they sleep over seven hours. The idea behind this plan is employee 2 (perform). Human resources 3 (official) say workers will work more effectively if they have slept well. A workforce that is more rested means the company will perform 4 (well). Staff can either record their sleep automatically, 5 (use) a wrist monitor, or record by hand how long they have slept every night.

6 number of studies warn that not sleeping enough can affect our ability to do our job. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine said that the average worker in the USA loses 11.3 working days of productivity a year from a lack 7 sleep. This 8 (cost) companies about $2,280 for one worker. It estimates (估计) that the US economy loses $63.2 billion a year mainly 9 workers do not sleep more than seven hours a night. A 2015 study by the Rand Corporation showed that staff members sleeping less than seven hours per night 10 (find) far less productive than workers having eight or more hours of sleep.

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