Best time to drink a cup of coffee: 10.30am

KEY

Question 1

            a) TRUE “ cortisol [...]promotes alertness”

            b) FALSE  “Cortisol levels are naturally high shortly after waking up”

            c) TRUE “drinking coffee in the afternoon can help to offset lapses in attention that occur after a large lunch”

            d) TRUE  “Early risers may find their ideal time is earlier than those who get to enjoy a lie in”

Question 2

a)       It is better to wait because when we wake up our levels of cortisol are high; it is after an hour when we need to drink a cup of coffee in order to produce more cortisol.

b)       You may become tolerant to caffeine and may need and extra dosis the reach the same levels of cortisol on your body.

Question 3

a)       due to

b)       peak

c)       promotes / to promote

d)       to offset

e)       to vary

Question 4

a)       Although he drinks coffee when he gets up, he doesn't concentrate in his work.

b)       Mr Miller said that although your cortisol levels peaked between 8 and 9am, there were a few other times where blood levels peaked again.

c)       Cortisol production is promoted by drinking coffee.