Összetett típusú feladat, mint majdnem mindig: odd one out, szókincs, és a már ismert felhasználási módok. Most az Ébrentartókkal ismerkedhetünk meg egy viszonylag veszélytelen formában.

KEEP-AWAKES

It is the Keep-awakes who cause you to drink too much coffee, tea, or alcohol before you go to bed or make sure that you have too much food in your stomach to be able to sleep (1) ________. They encourage overstimulation or bad conscience. And watching television for too long is (2) __________ the kind of thing they like, and they rub their hands in glee when someone is jerked awake by pain, worry, or grief.
I’ll tell you where they come from. Long, long ago, the evil spirit Nigbur (3) ___________ out of Chaos and from him sprang countless races of Keep-awakes. Once Nigbur had gained power (4) ________ humans and animals, he passed it on to his descendants and withdrew into a cave in the Caucasus Mountains, (5) ____________ he lay watching the world like a monster waiting to spring. (6) __________ his evil mind fed all the Keep-awakes in the world with nasty ideas.
When the Sandman came into being (7) ___________ one of the good spirits, he was given the task of bringing the comfort of sleep to all living beings. Nigbur pursued him bitterly and tried to destroy him. But the Sandman was always quicker and nimbler than Nigbur even though Nigbur tried every kind of ruse to get him. Nigbur himself (8) _________ see and hear the Sandman and move around at the speed of thought. Once he tried to fool the Sandman (9) __________ posing as a chick that had fallen out of its nest. When the chick suddenly turned into a huge monster, the Sandman, whose suspicions (10) ____________ already been aroused, threw a generous helping of sleeping sand in the monster's eyes to slow him down while he made his getaway.

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