Dreams are expressions of thoughts, feelings and events that pass through our mind while we are sleeping.Everybody dreams.But only some people remember their dreams.Our dreams often include all the senses-smells, sounds, sights, tastes and things we touch.We dream in colour.Sometimes we dream the same dream over and over again.These repeated dreams are often unpleasant.They may even be nightmares-bad dreams that frighten us.
Early in the twentieth century, two famous scientists developed their personal ideas about dreams.Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud published a book called“The Interpretation(诠释)of Dreams”in 1900.Freud believed people often dream about things they want but can't have.These dreams often have something to do with sex and aggression(侵犯).Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung worked closely with Freud for several years, but he believed dreams could help people grow and understand themselves.He believed dreams provide solutions(解答)to problems we face when we are awake.He didn't believe dreams hide our feelings about sex or aggression.Today we know more about the science of dreaming because researchers can take pictures of people's brains while they are sleeping.
Other researchers are studying how dreaming helps our bodies work with problems and very sad emotions(感情).Robert Stickgold is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard University in Massachusetts.Doctor Stickgold says that when we dream, the brain is trying to make sense of the world.He does not agree with Sigmund Freud that dreaming is the way we express our hidden feelings and desires(愿望).
Scientists believe it is important to keep researching dreams.Doctor Stickgold says it has been more than one hundred years since Sigmund Freud published his important book about dreaming.Yet there is still no agreement on exactly how the brain works when we are dreaming or why we dream.
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Dreams ________.
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are remembered by everyone
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express all that we think in our mind
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include few senses and things we touch
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are sometimes nightmares that repeat and frighten us
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A book on dreaming was published by ________.
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Sigmund Freud
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Robert Stickgold
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Carl Jung
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the writer
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In the passage, all the psychiatrists ________.
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believe dreams can help people understand all the problems that they face
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think dreams always hide someone's feelings about sex or aggression
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study dream and dreaming and have their own ideas
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have the same idea that people often dream about the things they want
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Jung thought that dreams provide solutions to problems we face when we are sleeping
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Freud developed the idea that dreams are expressions of people's hidden feelings
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scientists have known quite well why we dream because they can take pictures of our brains
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other researchers have discovered how dreaming helps our bodies work with problems and very sad emotions
Nick is a 14-year-old school boy.His life is full of exams and studies on weekday.He has 1 free time.He thinks playing computer games 2 the best way to make him relax.When he has free time, he sits in front of the computer.Just 3 that way, he doesn't eat or drink for several hours.
Last weekend, he played games on the computer again.He was too 4 and didn't want to move.He didn't have 5 for six hours.When he had to go to the bathroom, he found he could not move.He 6 to the hospital.The doctor told him he should have a good rest and 7 exercise.
After coming back from the hospital.Nick follows the doctor's 8 .He often plays soccer with his friends. 9 sometimes he still plays computer games on weekends, he 10 does it for long.Now he lives a happy and healthy life.
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阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Once there was a poor little girl living near a forest.She had no family and no one to love her.So she often 1 sad and lonely.
One day, when she was walking in the forest, she found that a small 2 was trapped unluckily in a bush.The butterfly tried to fly away 3 failed.The kind little girl saved the butterfly with great care.Instead of flying away, the butterfly turned 4 a beautiful fairy(仙女).The little girl was very 5 .
“Thank you for 6 me.You are so kind.I will make any of your dreams come true.” said the fairy.
The little girl thought for a moment and then said, “I want to be 7 !”
The fairy said, “Very well.I will help you.” And she said something in the little girl's ear.Then the fairy disappeared.
As the kind little girl grew up, she was 8 ready to help people in need and was popular among the villagers.No one in the village was as happy as she was.Everyone asked her the 9 of ther happiness.She always smiled and 10 , “The secret of my happiness is that I listened to a kind 11 when I was a little girl.”
When the kind girl became a very old woman and was dying, the neighbours in the 12 all gathered(聚拢)around her bed because they were 13 that her secret of happiness would die with her.They asked, “Please tell us what the kind fairy said.”
The lovely old woman still 14 and said, “She told me that everyone needed me, no matter how safe they seemed, no matter how rich or poor, no matter how old or 15 .She said that helping others would make me happy all my life.”
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In 1867, an engineer named John Roebling was given the job of building a bridge to connect(连接)New York with Long Island.
Roebling thought about the idea all the time.He couldn’t get the bridge off his 1 .But many people thought it was 2 to do the job.
The project started well, but only a few months later Roebling was killed in a terrible accident.The following month his son, Washington, was asked to 3 his work.
Building the bridge was a long and tough job.Not only did John Roebling die, but also up to thirty other men lost their 4 .
Washington himself had the same bad luck 5 his father.In early summer 1872, he became very ill.He couldn’t walk, talk or 6 move.
“We told them so.”
Crazy men and their crazy dreams.”
“It’s foolish to follow wild ideas.”
Everyone criticized(批评)the bridge project.People said it would never 7 .
But Washington was not discouraged.He kept his mind on the job.
One day as he lay in bed in his hospital room, an idea hit him.He could still move one 8 .He decided to make the best use of it.
He touched(触摸)his wife’s arm with that finger.He wanted her to call the engineers.Then in the same way, he told the engineers 9 to do.The project started again.
For 11 years Washington tapped out his words with his finger, until the bridge was completed.Today the spectacular(壮观的)Brooklyn Bridge stands in all its glory (荣耀).It tells the world a 10 story, but also a story of determination.