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Passage one
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 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(
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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 鈥渟ecret
mes
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1.According to the passage, Elias Howe was________.
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C
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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
2.The problem Howe was trying to solve was________.
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A
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