“We found a big effect - about a 40 percent reduction in pain  ____ and a 57 percent reduction in pain

unpleasantness.”

The meditators had their brains scanned before and after meditating.

The study said the pain-killer morphine reduced pain by 25%.

The technique focuses people’s attention on the source of the pain.

The study looked at a kind of meditation called “technique focused”.

The judge ________________ Smith to five years in

prison.

Police ________________ a number of people

following a demonstration in the central London.

Many shops _____________ at around nine in the

morning.

Smith _____________ to five years in prison.

Police ___________________ two men following a

robbery in the city centre this afternoon.