Being able to take advantage of dreams for solving is improved if you “set” yourself before retiring. Before you go to bed, try to think intently about a problem you wish to solve. Bury yourself in the problem by stating it clearly and reviewing all relevant information. Then use the suggestions listed in the previous section to catch your dreams. Although this method is not guaranteed to produce a novel solution or a new insight, it is certain to be an adventure. About half of a group of college students using the method for a week recalled a dream that helped them solve a personal problem.

　　44. The main idea of this passage is that _________.

　　A. very little is really known about the meaning of dreams

　　B. it is possible to “catch” one’s dreams by planning before going to sleep

　　C. dreams can be useful in producing creative solutions to one’s problems

　　D. Loewi’s experiment helped in the study of transmission of nerve impulses

　　45. The first paragraph is mainly organized by _________.

　　A. classifying types of experiments

　　B. summarizing the work of one researcher

　　C. comparing and exploring historical cases

　　D. telling in time order about one man’s research

　　46. If Loewi had thought of the experiment while awake, he would have _________.

　　A. asked someone else to do it B. thought it was a bad idea

　　C. tried it out on his own D. thought it was a wise idea

　　47. The author probably thinks that _________.

　　A. nervous feelings may stop someone thinking of useful ideas

　　B. dreaming is of very little value to most people

　　C. Loewi should not have conducted his experiment

　　D. college students should not try out dream experiments

　　答案：

　　44.C. 主旨大意題。根據第一段第一句可知。

　　45.D. 篇章結構題。根據第一段的時間連詞可知是以時間為線索展開的記敘文。

　　46.B. 細節理解題。根據第一段最后一句reject一詞可知。

　　英語閱讀理解強化訓練2：

　　Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’s not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager (十幾歲的孩子) problem. Whatever you do or however you choose to deal with it, at certain times a wonderful, reasonable and helpful child will turn into a terrible animal.

　　I’ve seen friends deal with it in all kinds of different ways. One strict mother insisted that her son, right from a child, should stand up whenever anyone entered the room, open doors and shake hands like a gentleman. I saw him last week when I called round. Sprawling himself (懶散地躺) on the sofa in full length, he made no attempt to turn off the loud TV he was watching as I walked in, and his greeting was no more than a quick glance at me. His mother was ashamed. “I don't know what to do with him these days,” she said. “He’s forgotten all the manners we taught him.”

　　He hasn't forgotten them. He' s just decided that he' s not going to use them. She confessed (坦白) that she would like to come up behind him and throw him down from the sofa onto the floor.

　　Another good friend of mine let her two daughters climb all over the furniture, reach across the table, stare at me and say, “I don’t like your dress; it’s ugly.” One of the daughters has recently been driven out of school. The other has left home.

　　“Where did we go wrong?” her parents are now very sad. Probably nowhere much. At least, no more than the rest of that unfortunate race, parents.

　　71. This text is most probably written by ______.

　　A. a specialist in teenager studies B. a headmaster of a middle school

　　C. a parent with teenage children D. a doctor for mental health problems

　　72. The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to ______.

　　A. the change from good to bad that ' s seen in a child

　　B. die way that parents often blame themselves

　　C. the opinion that a child has of his parents

　　D. the advice that parents want their children to follow

　　73. The boy on the sofa would most probably be described as ______.

　　A. lazy B. quiet G. unusual D. rude

　　74. From the second example we can infer that the parents of the two daughters ______.

　　A. pay no attention to them B. are too busy to look after them

　　C. have come to hate them D. feel helpless to do much about them

　　75. What is the author' a opinion about the sudden change in teenage children?

　　A. Parents have no choice but to try to accept it.

　　B. Parents should pay still sore attention to the change.

　　C. Parents should work more closely with school teachers.

　　D. Parents are at fault for the change in their children.

　　答案：

　　71.A 72.A 73.D 74.D 75.A