题目内容
12.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 around the needle without any problems.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 practised 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(无意识的),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".
29.The problem Howe was trying to solve wasD.
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 stop the thread from getting caught around the needle
30.Thomas Edison is spoken of becauseB.
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
31.Dreams are sometimes called"secret messages to ourselves"becauseA.
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.
分析 文章介绍了缝纫机是如何诞生的.一直困扰着发明家的一个问题在梦中找到了答案.许多科学家像爱迪生、爱因斯坦等,都有过在梦中发现问题答案的经历.这主要是因为大脑的一部分在无意识状态下仍然在工作.
解答 29.D.细节理解题.根据第一段的"but he had run into a very difficult problem:It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle"和第二段的"Howe ran into the same problem as before.The thread kept getting caught around the needle"可知,Howe面临的问题是,如何避免让线缠绕到针上.故选D.
30.B.细节理解题.根据"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"可知,Howe不是唯一的一个通过此种方式得到答案的人,爱迪生也是在梦中得到答案的,故选B.
31.A.细节理解题.根据最后一段"this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake…It uses strange images which the conscious part may not understand at first.This is why dreams are sometimes called"secret messages to ourselves"."可知,大脑的一部分在无意识状态下工作,发送信息到其它部分,这部分大脑使用的是一种特殊的图象,故选A.
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