(B)    DC Hilton was one of the first Americans to find out that there was money to be made in the middle of the night .42 years ago he bought a small restaurant on US highway 69 , in Oklahoma . His main customers were truck drivers and _61_ salesmen who drank coffee and ate cheeseburgers when they stopped to _62_ their journey.    It was they who first tried to persuade Hilton to remain open all night .He thought about it for a while , and then suddenly made up his mind .He took the door key and threw it across the road .He hasn’t closed the door _63_.    Over the years his simple burger café has expanded into 24-hour roadside empire ,with a 100-seat restaurant , a petrol station , a mini shopping market , a car park _64_ mobile homes (活动住房)and all-night sellf-help laundry.    Hilton was a pioneer in a 24-hour _65_ which has now caught on around the world .Today not only restaurants but also banks , supermarkets, mail-order firms, travel agencies and many other busimesses are  _66_ to be open all nihgt . _67_ is this really a good thing、    A lot of research has been done in America on the effect of 24-hour working , and there is growing    _68_ About the long-term dangers of a society that doesn’t sleep . Americans are said to be sleeping 20% less than they did 100 years ago , and 55% claim to suffer at least occasionally from over-tiredness. _69_  of the worst man-made disasters happened in the last few hours before dawn ,when even the most experi-enced nihgt-worker has difficulty _70_ awake.

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