Looking for a low-cost path to self-knowledge? A way to mine your subconscious①f

Looking for a low-cost path to self-knowledge? A way to mine your subconscious①f

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Looking for a low-cost path to self-knowledge? A way to mine your subconscious①for clues to your motivations, desires and fears? No need to have years of treatment or analysis. Just look to your dreams.
“You can ignore your dreams, but you are really doing harm to yourself,” says Lauri Quinn Loewenberg. “If so, you’re letting red flags pass you by, letting great ideas pass you by.”
Some sleep researchers believe dreams are more directly related to our moods and emotions and can serve as tools to self-understanding. Dreams occur during the REM (rapid eye movement) cycles of sleep each night. For adults, that means about every 90 minutes. The first period of REM sleep may be short, 5 to 10 minutes, followed by longer periods, finally reaching an hour or more in the fourth or fifth period.
When people are dreaming, brain scans show a lot of activities. The brain is online during dreams. The experiences you have during the day are connected during dream sleep. People we know or experiences we’ve had at different times in our lives may be different in the same dream.
AmyBeth Gilstrap has had the same recurring② dream that annoyed her since Hurricane Katrina drove her and her daughter and friends out of New Orleans. Ms. Gilstrap says, “It is always spies. My job is to get people to some place.” She’s certain the dream is related to her effort in the hurricane to help several families leave. Sometimes her cats also are part of that dream. That’s because she went back into New Orleans, before it was allowed, to rescue her cats.
Today, through brain scans scientists have known that the parts of the brain that control emotion and long-term memory are active during REM sleep.
1. The passage is mainly to tell readers ______.
A. dreams are mainly caused by hard work     B. dreams can offer us key to self-knowledge
C. dreams are only activities of our brains      D. how dreams help us solve our problems
2. According to the words from Lauri Quinn Loewenberg, ______.
A. dreams can make you feel badly ill         B. you often have red flags in your dreams
C. dreams will make your life colorful         D. you may get great help from your dreams
3. According to the passage, the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refers to ______.
A. Ms. Gilstrap’s dream   B. Ms. Gilstrap’s job   C. Hurricane Katrina   D. New Orleans
4. According to the passage, when you are dreaming at night, ______.
A. your dream is connected with your work that day
B. the dream will generally last about 5 to 10 minutes
C. the longer dream should be in the later part of the sleep
D. your eyes will still move slowly during the time
答案
BDAC
解析
1.B。主旨概括题。本文主要是要告诉读者:梦或许是做梦者理解自己(自知)的一种方式。
2.D。深层理解题。由文章的第二段可知。red flags指另人警惕的东西。
3.A。词义猜测题。由本段可知,it应该指Ms. Gilstrap所做的梦,即:他的梦是关于间谍的。
4.C。深层理解题。由文章的第三段可知。长梦应该在睡觉的后期。
举一反三
On Wednesday afternoon Annie took the bus into town to shop in the market. For an hour or so she would walk up and down between the stalls looking at everything, buying here and there, and  1  a sharp lookout for the bargains that were something to be haD. And then, with all the   2  she needs bought she would leave the market for the   3  of the town to spend another hour   4  she liked best, looking in furniture-shop windows.
One Wednesday she found a  5  shop full of the most delightful things, with a   6  inviting anyone to walk in and look round without   7  they had to buy something. Annie hesitated a moment   8  stepping through the doorway where, almost at once, she stopped   9  before a green armchair. There was a card on the chair which  10  ,“This fine chair is yours for less than a pound a week,” and very small at the bottom, “Cash price eighty-nine pounds fifty.” A pound a week …Why, she could almost pay that out of her housekeeping money and never   11  it!  
A voice at her shoulder made her   12  .“Can I help you, Madam?” She looked   13  at the assistant who had come softly to her  14 
“Oh, well, no,” she said, “I was just   15  .”
“We have chairs of all kinds in the   16  . If you"ll just come up, you will find something to  17  you.”
Annie, worried at the thought of being   18  to buy something she didn"t   19  , left the shop   20  .
1. A. taking    B. making      C. fixing D. keeping
2. A. chairs  B. furniture  C. things D. bargains
3. A. shops   B. streets   C. delightful things       D. bus station
4. A. in the way   B. by the way   C. in a way     D. in one way
5. A. new         B. noisy  C. large   D. strange
6. A. message      B. notice C. note    D. flag
7. A. arguing       B. declaring    C. frightening D. feeling
8. A. when        B. before C. after   D. while
9. A. doubted    B. surprised  C. puzzled      D. delighted
10. A. wrote     B. told    C. informed    D. said
11. A. lose      B. miss    C. pass    D. make
12. A. jump      B. run     C. laugh  D. surprise
13. A. round     B. straight      C. behind       D. up
14. A. place    B. back   C. side    D. front
15. A. thinking         B. looking      C. walking      D. passing
16. A. doorway    B. storehouse       C. showroom    D. market
17. A. suit      B. fit       C. serve   D. match
18. A. advised   B. made  C. persuaded     D. cheated
19. A. like      B. afford C. pay     D. need
20. A. slowly    B. thoughtfully    C. hurriedly    D. carefully
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When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could do to advise me against becoming a brewer(造酒人). He’d  36   his life brewing beer for local breweries only to make a living, ___37    had his father and grandfather befere him. He didn’t want me  38   near a vat(酿酒用的桶)of beer. So I did as he asked. I got good ___39  , went to Harvard and in 1971 was accepted into a graduate program there that  40   me to study law and business at the same time.
In my second year of graduate school, I began to realize that I’d  41   done anything but go to school. So, at  24 I decided to drop out. 42  , my parents didn’t think this was a great idea. But I felt strongly that you can’t  43__   till you’re 65 to do what you want in life.
I packed my stuff into a bus and headed for Colorado to become an instructor at Outward Bound. Three years later, I was ready to go back to  44  . I finished Havard and got a highly-paid job at the Boston Consulting Group Still, after working there five years, I  45  ,  “Is this what I want to be doing when I’m 50?”  At that time, Americans spent good  money on beer in  46    quality. Why not make good beer for  47  ? I thought.
I decided to give up my job to become  48  . When I told Dad, he was  49  , but in the end he  50   me. I called my beer  Samuel Adams,   51   the brewer and patriot(爱国者) who helped to start  the Boston Tea Party.  52   I sold the beer direct to beer drinkers to get  the   53   out. Six weeks later, at the Great American Beer Festival, Sam Adams Boston Lager(淡啤酒) won the top prize for American beer. In the end I was destined(注定) to be a brewer. My  54   to the young is simple:Life is very  55  , so don’t rush to make decisions. Life doesn’t let you plan.  
36.A.cost B.spent    C.taken   D.paid
37.A.like B.as if     C.so D.nor
38.A.anywhere       B.anyway       C.anyhow       D.somewhere
39.A.habits     B.teachers       C.grades  D.work
40.A.promised       B.convinced    C.advised       D.allowed
41.A.never     B.ever     C.always D.hardly
42.A.Fortunatnely  B.Obviously   C.Possibly      D.Surprisingly
43.A.assure     B.decline C.deny    D.wait
44.A.school    B.Colorado     C.my home     D.my decision
45.A.thrilled   B.stressed       C.wondered    D.sneezed
46.A.cheap     B.expensive    C.low      D.high
47.A.Englishmen   B.Europeans   C.the world    D.Americans
48.A.a lawyer B.a brewer      C.an instructor       D.an engineer
49.A.astonished      B.satisfied      C.interested    D.anxious
50.A.hated      B.supported    C.raised   D.left
51.A.for  B.at C.in D.after
52.A.Therefore      B.Otherwise    C.Also    D.Yet
53.A.price      B.name   C.company     D.party
54.A.advice    B.life      C.job      D.experience
55.A.hard       B.busy    C.short    D.long
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The United States is one of the few countries in the world that has an official day on which fathers are honored by their children. On the third Sunday in June, fathers all across the United States are given presents, treated to dinner or otherwise made to feel special.
However, the idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father’s Day while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon① in 1909. Having been raised by her father, Henry Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices② and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a selfless and loving man. Sonora’s father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father’s Day celebration in Spikane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.
In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge declared the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Roses are the Father’s Day flowers: red to be worn for a living father and white if the father has died.
When children can’t visit their fathers or take them out to dinner, they send a greeting card. Traditionally, fathers prefer greeting cards that are not too sentimental③. Most greeting cards are too special so fathers laugh when they open them. Some give heartfelt thanks for being there whenever the child needed Dad.
Notes:
① sermon  v. 布道
② sacrifices  n. 牺牲
③ sentimental  adj. 感伤的
1. The United States is special in Father’s Day because ______.
A. many people celebrate the day                B. only America celebrates the day
C. America makes it an official day              D. all men are honored in America
2. At first, Father’s Day was fixed on June 19th because ______.
A. Sonora honored her father on her father’s birthday
B. Sonora’s birthday was June 19
C. it was decided by the president at that time
D. her mother died on June 19
3. How many years has passed before Father’s Day became an official day since the father’s day was celebrated?
A. 4     B. 10      C. 14     D. 24
4. According to the passage, on Father’s Day,  ______.
A. people will wear the same flowers to honor their fathers
B. only daughters wear red flowers to honor their fathers
C. children must go home to honor their fathers
D. fathers are often honored in different ways
5. According to the passage, we can infer that Henry Jackson Smart ______.
A. was very kind to anyone
B. did a lot for his daughter
C. was the first father honored in 1924
D. always help others by giving money
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During a recent holiday I visited Dusseldorf, a city in the former West Germany. The nine-day trip left a deep impression   1   me. I arrived at Dussedorf airport at 7 pm. It was already  2  outside. The first thing I needed to do was to find a place to  3   . I decided to telephone the youth hotel. But to use the phone I needed some   4   , I asked a lady for help. To my  5   she gave me three coins to use. But all the phones in the   6   needed phone cards. And phone cards could only be bought at post offices during the   7   . I was   8   I would not be able to call the hotel. An old gentleman helped me. He couldn’t speak English   9   understand that I needed to   10   a phone call. He showed me where the phone was and inserted  11   phone carD. I called the youth hotel and found a place to stay that night.
The   12   of the German people made me feel that I was not   13   my first day in Germany wasn’t as  14   as I expecteD. Whenever I went, I asked people for   15  . It surprised me that   16   every young German could speak English fluently. Older Germans couldn"t speak English very well, but they would try to help me   17   they coulD. One middle-aged man I asked for directions even   18   me to the place I was looking for.
My   19   in Germany totally changed my impression of Germans. Now I think the people couldn"t be more 20    .  
1.  A. on      B. for     C. to      D. about
2. A. late       B. dark   C. light   D. early
3. A. visit      B. eat     C. stay    D. keep
4. A. cards     B. information      C. money       D. coins
5. A. joy        B. disappointment C. emotion      D. surprise
6. A. hotel  B. airport       C. city    D. pavement
7. A. night      B. daytime     C. trip    D. rush-hour
8. A. afraid    B. sure   C. glad   D. eager
9. A. orB. but     C. and    D. so
10. A. make   B. have   C. do      D. answer
11. A. another B. a        C. my     D. his
12. A. use      B. success      C. care   D. kindness
13. A. really   B. nearly out of     C. far from    D. close to
14. A. interesting   B. goodC. bad    D. busy
15. A. direction     B. distance     C. travel        D. serve
16. A. almost        B. even   C. only   D. already
17. A. whenever    B. whatever   C. wherever   D. however
18. A. drove   B. reached     C. moved       D. came
19. A. experience        B. victory      C. visit    D. memory
20. A. friendly       B. unfriendly        C. cold-hearted      D. valuable
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A boy walked along Carver Street, singing a sad song. He walked with his head down. Once he looked up and noticed the sign across the empty street, painted on the side of an old house. On the sign a big woman with yellow hair and a five-mile smile held out a big bottle. “Coca-Cola. Drink Coca-Cola,” the sign said.
“Boy!” the silence was cut by a sudden cry. He turned around quickly to see who had called.
An old woman was standing at her door.
“You boy! Come here this minute!”
Slowly the boy ___1___ onto the cold flat stones leading to the old woman’s house. When he arrived at her house, she ___2___ out her hand and wrapped(缠住) her ___3___ old fingers around his arm.
“Help me inside, boy”, she said, “Help me ___4___ to my bed. What’s your name?”
“Joseph,” he said.
The old woman on the bed tried to ___5___ up, raising herself on her elbow(肘). Water ___6___ from her eyes and mouth. The sight of her made Joseph feel ___7___.
“I am dying, Joseph. You can see that, can’t you? I want you to write a ___8___ for me. There’s paper and pencil on the table there.”
Joseph looked down at the ___9___, and then looked out the window. He saw the sign again: “Coca-Cola. Drink Coca-cola.”
“I want my silver pin to ___10___ to my daughter.”
Joseph bent his small body over the table and ___11___ the pencil slowly across the paper.
“There’s my Bible(圣经),” the old woman said. “That’s for my daughter, too. I want a ___12__ Christian burial(基督葬礼) with lots of singing. Write that down, too. That’s the last ___13__ of a poor old woman.”
The boy labored over the paper. Again he looked out the window.
“Here. Bring it here so I can ___14___ it.”
Joseph found the Bible, and ___15___the paper inside, laid it next to the bed.
“___16___ me now, boy,” she sighed. “I’m tired.”
He ran out of the house.
A cold wind blew through the ___17___ window, but the old woman on the bed ___18___ nothing. She was dead. The paper in the Bible moved back and forth in the wind. ___19___ on the paper were some childish letters. They ___20___ the words “Coca-Cola. Drink Coca-cola.”
1. A. rushed    B. struggled    C. hurried       D. stepped
2. A. reached  B. let      C. pushed       D. pointed
3. A. firm       B. smooth       C. dry     D. fresh
4. A. back       B. over    C. away   D. ahead
5. A. sit   B. get      C. stand   D. wake
6. A. rolled     B. burnt  C. burst   D. ran
7. A. ill   B. sick    C. unpleasant  D. funny
8. A. letter      B. note    C. will    D. message
9. A. table      B. pen     C. paper  D. woman
10. A. send     B. go      C. belong       D. come
11. A. moved  B. drew   C. used    D. pulled
12. A. great    B. merry C. splendid     D. real
13. A. hope     B. chance       C. opinion      D. wish
14. A. sign      B. read    C. remember   D. copy
15. A. setting  B. hiding C. placing       D. laying
16. A. Hold    B. Leave  C. Excuse       D. Pardon
17. A. large    B. open   C. small  D. pretty
18. A. did       B. saw     C. felt     D. knew
19. A. Described    B. Printed       C. Recorded    D. Written
20. A. formed B. spelled       C. organized   D. repeated
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