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The beginning of this sentence focuses on how important sleep is to good health. You can therefore predict that taking a nap produces positive effects on health. (A) soporific means “to make sleepy,” which is not a logical effect of napping. (B) detrimental and (E) deleterious both mean “harmful,” which is the opposite of the predicted meaning “positive.” (D) perceptible, meaning “noticeable,” might make sense in the context, but the word charge is not positive enough to match the prediction, and there is no second choice that would give the sentence a similar meaning. (C) beneficial, meaning “favorable,” and (F) salubrious, meaning “health-giving,” both correctly convey the idea that the effects of napping are positive and healthy and are the right answers.