Annual General
Meeting
With this letter you will find your (0) ... to attend the
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INVITE |
| Annual
General Meeting of the Society. Please note | |
| that it will take place on 10 September
(the last | |
| newsletter
(1) ... stated that the meeting would be | CORRECT
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| on 9 September). The
meeting will begin at 8pm but | |
| (2) ... will be available from 7pm.
You will therefore | REFRESH |
| have time to chat (3) ... with committee
members | FORMAL |
| and
(4) ... of the Society before the meeting | OFFICE |
| commences. | |
| At 8pm, the Chairman will make a
brief (5) ... | INTRODUCE |
| speech and then put forward some
proposals for | |
| your
(6) ... There will also be elections to fill the two | APPROVE |
| (7) ... on the committee. The enclosed
agenda | VACANT |
| gives
a full description of the business to be | |
| conducted at the meeting. | |
| Dreaming | |
The first study of what goes on in
our heads during
| |
dreaming has been completed, casting light
on an
| |
| activity
that humans have always found (1) ... . The | MYSTERY |
| research, reported in the journal
Nature, opens up a | |
| 2) ... new chapter in efforts to understand
what we | SIGNIFY |
| do
with a (3) ... of our lives. It supports the | THREE |
| (4) ... that dreams are formed by
calling up images | SUPPOSE |
| from a store of emotional memories. | |
| Scientists find dreaming an enormous
puzzle. | |
| The
reason for their (5) ... lies in the | IGNORE |
| (6) ... complicated design of the
brain which contains | ASTONISH |
| as many nerve cells as there are stars in the
universe. | |
| Each
of the nerve cells communicates with thousands | |
| of its neighbours, producing an (7)
... amount of | BELIEVE |
| chatter. Now, however, it seems scientists
are | |
| beginning
to make sense of the brain’s (8) ... activity. | NIGHT |