Early one morning,more than a hundred years ago,an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep.He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.
Though he was tired,Howe slept badly.He turned and turned.Then he had a dream.He dreamt that he had been caught by terrible savages whose king wanted to kill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine.When he tried to do so,Howe ran into the same problem as before.The thread kept getting caught around the needle.The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe.They came up towards him with their spears raised.But suddenly the inventor noticed something.There was a hole in the tip of each spear.The inventor awoke from the dream,realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem.Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle,he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle.This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practical sewing machine.
Elias Howe was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way.Thomas Edison,the inventor of the electric light,said his best ideas came into him in dreams.So did the great physicist Albert Einstein.Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing ?Jane Eyre.?
To know the value of dreams,you have to understand what happens when you are asleep.Even then,a part of your mind is still working.This unconscious(無意識的),but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day.It stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed.It is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake.However,the unconscious part acts in a special way.It uses strange images which the conscious part may not understand at first.This is why dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves ”.
小題1:According to the passage,Elias Howe was_________.
A．the first person we know of who solved problems in his sleep
B．much more hard-working than other inventors
C．the first person to design a sewing machine that really worked
D．the only person at the time who knew the value of dreams
小題2:The problem Howe was trying to solve was_________.
A．what kind of thread to use
B．how to design a needle which would not break
C．where to put the needle
D．how to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle
小題3:Thomas Edison is spoken of because_________.
A．he also tried to invent a sewing machine
B．he got some of his ideas from dreams
C．he was one of Howe's best friends
D．he also had difficulty in falling asleep
小題4:Dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves” because _________.
A．strange images are used to communicate ideas
B．images which have no meaning are used
C．we can never understand the real meaning
D．only specially trained people can understand them

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:A

小題1:從第二段最后一句話可得知正確答案為C。A、D與原文不符，B項沒提及。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題。從第一段最后一句可知D為正確答案。
小題3:A、C、D三項與原文不符，故可用排除法排除。用愛迪生的例子來說明Howe不是惟一一個做夢突發(fā)靈感的人。
小題4:B、C兩項本身不正確，D與原文不符，故都可排除，選A項。
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