Read the text and for each gap choose the best option A, B, C or D.

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1) Everybody dreams every night. The reason (1)_____ people dont believe this is that dreams are very quickly forgotten so that it often seems we have spent a night without dreaming. 2) It takes about 90 minutes after you fall asleep for you to experience your first dream, and there is more than an hours delay (2)_____ your first dream of the night and your second. But this period grows shorter and shorter as the night wears on so that you do most of your dreaming before you wake up in the morning. 3) When BBC cameraman Graham Tidman visited Hole House, near Branscombe, England in May 1964, to do a documentary (3)_____ water divining, he was astonished to discover he knew the place (4)_____, even though he had never been there before and had no friends or relatives in the area. Tidman had, in fact, dreamed about the house on no fewer than five occasions prior to visiting it in reality. But in his dreams he never saw the place as it was in 1964, but rather as it had been when it was built in 1896 many years before he was born. Architects plans (5)_____ Tidmans dreams had been absolutely accurate. 4) One of the most famous poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the epic Kuba Khan, was composed (6)_____ a dream. The poet woke and was in the process of getting it down on paper when he was disturbed (7)_____ a visitor. By the time the man left, the rest of the dream had been forgotten, leaving the poem forever unfinished. The novelist Robert Louis Stevenson had better luck. He dreamed-and remembered- the plot of the (8)_____that made him famous, Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde.

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C Many C Among C On C Really C said C for

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2) A Between B In 3) A In 4) A Good B Above B Well

D Since D For D Deeply D Confirmed D Meanwhile

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Seriously Weird True Stories by Herbie Brennan

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WEIRD DREAMS FACT FILE

1) Everybody dreams every night. The reason many people dont believe this is that dreams are very quickly forgotten so that it often seems we have spent a night without dreaming. 2) It takes about 90 minutes after you fall asleep for you to experience your first dream, and there is more than an hours delay between your first dream of the night and your second. But this period grows shorter and shorter as the night wears on so that you do most of your dreaming before you wake up in the morning. 3) When BBC cameraman Graham Tidman visited Hole House, near Branscombe, England in May 1964, to do a documentary on water divining, he was astonished to discover he knew the place well, even though he had never been there before and had no friends or relatives in the area. Tidman had, in fact, dreamed about the house on no fewer than five occasions prior to visiting it in reality. But in his dreams he never saw the place as it was in 1964, but rather as it had been when it was built in 1896 many years before he was born. Architects plans confirmed Tidmans dreams had been absolutely accurate. 4) One of the most famous poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the epic Kuba Khan, was composed during a dream. The poet woke and was in the process of getting it down on paper when he was disturbed by a visitor. By the time the man left, the rest of the dream had been forgotten, leaving the poem forever unfinished. The novelist Robert Louis Stevenson had better luck. He dreamed-and remembered- the plot of the work that made him famous, Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde.