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EXERCISE


 

PART 1. BLANK FILLING

Listen and complete the sentences with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

  1. The research center is currently studying a phenomenon called __________. 
  2. Directed dreamers can control their dreams because they know what they are __________. 
  3. The center has __________ reliable people who can experience directed dreams regularly. 
  4. The researchers asked the participants to meet at a __________ by the river. 
  5. The next morning, the researchers interviewed the dreamers __________. 

Answer Key

  1. directed dreaming 
  2. dreaming 
  3. three 
  4. pub 
  5. separately

PART 2. MULTIPLE CHOICE (10 QUESTIONS)

Choose the best answer.

  1. What is the interviewer asking about?
    A. Sleep problems
    B. The department's research
    C. Brain diseases
    D. Hospitals 
  2. What are the researchers studying?
    A. Dreams
    B. Memory
    C. Music
    D. Stress 
  3. What is directed dreaming?
    A. Dreaming during the day
    B. Writing dreams down
    C. Knowing and controlling dreams
    D. Forgetting dreams 
  4. Can people sometimes return to a dream after waking up?
    A. No
    B. Sometimes
    C. Never
    D. Always 
  5. How many reliable directed dreamers does the centre have?
    A. One
    B. Two
    C. Three
    D. Four 
  6. How many women took part in the experiment?
    A. One
    B. Two
    C. Three
    D. None 
  7. Where were the dreamers asked to go?
    A. A park
    B. A school
    C. A pub
    D. A hotel 
  8. Where was the pub?
    A. Near the sea
    B. By the river
    C. In the mountains
    D. Near a station 
  9. When were the dreamers interviewed?
    A. That evening
    B. At midnight
    C. The next morning
    D. One week later 
  10. What did the woman say?
    A. She met the men.
    B. She visited the pub.
    C. She had a bad dream.
    D. She could not remember a dream. 

Answer Key

PART 3. TRUE OR FALSE (10 QUESTIONS)

Write T (True) or F (False).

  1. The researchers are studying dreams. 
  2. Directed dreamers have no control over their dreams. 
  3. The centre wants to know whether anyone can develop this ability. 
  4. There are three reliable directed dreamers at the centre. 
  5. The experiment took place during the day. 
  6. The three dreamers stayed at the centre. 
  7. The participants knew the pub well. 
  8. The two men said they saw each other. 
  9. The two men said they saw the woman. 
  10. The researcher thinks the result may have been a coincidence. 

Answer Key

PART 4. SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (10 QUESTIONS)

  1. What are the researchers trying to find out more about? 
  2. What do they call the special type of dreaming they study? 
  3. What can directed dreamers control? 
  4. How many reliable directed dreamers does the centre have? 
  5. How many men were in the experiment? 
  6. How many women were in the experiment? 
  7. Where were the dreamers asked to meet? 
  8. When were they interviewed? 
  9. What did the two men report seeing? 
  10. Why did the woman not appear in the men's dreams according to the discussion? 

Answers

  1. Dreams. 
  2. Directed dreaming. 
  3. Their dreams. 
  4. Three. 
  5. Two. 
  6. One. 
  7. At a pub by the river. 
  8. The next morning. 
  9. Each other. 
  10. Because she did not have or could not remember a dream.