How do dreams help us？They help us look at ______ in our daily life.

rts offer these suggestions:

Develop an idea. Before you go to sleep, consciously think about a topic or a person you'd like to dream about. Raise a question that's troubling you and see how your dream responds to it.

Keep track. Next to your bed, place a pen and some paper, or a tape recorder or laptop(笔记本电脑) ,to record your dreams as soon as you wake up.

Try to wake up naturally, without the help of an alarm clock or barking dog that can interrupt your dream cycle. If your schedule doesn't allow you to sleep in during the week, begin your dream journey on a weekend or during a vacation.

Wake up slowly. For the first moment after you wake up, lie still and keep your eyes closed, because your dream may be connected to your body position while you slept. Try to recall the dream and then store it in your memory by giving it a name like "Late for an Exam" or "My Date with Ashley Judd." When you rise, immediately write down as many images, feelings and impressions as you can.

Connect the dots. To better interpret your dreams, try to make connections between your recalled dreams and recent events. Do you recognize people from the present or past？ Can you detect any themes from the dream？ Look for patterns over several dreams that might help explain an individual dream.

Change the outcome, If you have nightmares happening again and again that make it difficult to sleep, try to change the endings. Once you wake up from a bad dream, imagine a change in the action to create a more positive outcome. If you are trapped, try to fly. In your dream, you can do what you want !

The passage advices you to "wake up slowly"______.

A．because dreaming usually happens not long before you wake up

B．because sleeping posture may be related to your dream

C．so as not to connect your dreams

D．so as not to have a nightmare

A．您好，**部门，This is ***，What can I do for you

B．您好，**部门，This is ***，May I help u

C．您好，佘山茂御臻品之选酒店，This is***， How may I be of your service

D．您好，佘山茂御臻品之选酒店！**部门，This is **，How may I be of your service

Why do people dream what they worry about？

A．Because the brain tries to help people prepare for the occurrence of a disaster.

B．Because the brain tries to develop people's ability to learn to deal with a disaster.

C．Because dreams can make people feel less worried about the occurrence of a disaster.

D．Because dreams can help people remember what to do when a disaster occurred.

According to Cartwright, in what way do dreams function as a built-in therapist？

A．Dreams regulate mood and help people deal with emotional problems.

B．Dreams lay new emotional experience on top of old memories.

C．Dreams help people forget old experience, relatives and friends.

D．Dreams figure out emotional related images and experience.

How do people usually respond when they are watching movies？

A．They feel that everything on the screen is familiar to them.

B．They are touched by the life-stories of the actors and actresses.

C．They try to turn their dreams into reality.

D．They become so involved that they forget their own problems.

program "Seven Up"？ It started following the lives of a group of children in 1963. We first meet them as wide-eyed seven-year-olds and then catch up with them at seven-year intervals: nervous 14-year-olds, serious 21 -year-olds, then grown-ups.

Some of the stories are inspiring, others sad, but what is interesting in almost all the cases is the way in which the children's early hopes and dreams are shown in their future lives. For example, at seven, Tony is a lively child who says he wants to become a sportsman or a taxi driver. When he grows up, he goes on to do both. How about Nicki？ She says," I'd like to find out about the moon." And she goes on to become a space scientist. As a child, soft-spoken Bruce says he wants to help "poor children" and ends up teaching in India.

But if the lives of all the children had followed this pattern the program would be far less interesting than it actually was. It was the children whose childhood did not prepare them for what was to come that made the program so inspiring. Where did their ideas come from about what they wanted to do when they grew up？ Are children influenced by what their parents do, by what they see on television, or by what their teachers say？ How great is the effect of a single important event？ Many film directors, including Stephen Spielberg, say that an early visit to the cinema was the turning point in their byes. Dr. Margaret McAllister, who has done a tot of research in this area, thinks that the major influences are parents, friends, and the wider society.

What does the text mainly discuss？

A．New ways to make a TV program interesting.

B．The importance of television programs to children.

C．Different ways to make childhood dreams come true.

D．The influence of childhood experience on future lives.

In dreams, a window opens into a world where logic is suspended and dead people speak. A century ago, Freud formulated his revolutionary theory that dreams were the disguised shadows of our unconscious desires and fears; by the late 1970s, neurologists had switched to thinking of them as just "mental noise"—the random byproducts of the neural-repair work that goes on during sleep. Now researchers suspect that dreams are part of the mind's emotional thermostat, regulating moods while the brain is "off-line". And one leading authority says that these intensely powerful mental events can be not only harnessed but actually brought under conscious control, to help us sleep and feel better, "It's your dream", says Rosalind Cartwright, chair of psychology at Chicago's Medical Center, "If you don't like it, change it".

Evidence from brain imaging supports this view. The brain is as active during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep—when most vivid dreams occur—as it is when fully awake, says Dr. Eric Nofzinger at the University of Pittsburgh, But not all parts of the brain are equally involved; the limbic system (the "emotional brain") is especially active, while the pre frontal cortex (the center of intellect and reasoning) is relatively quiet. "We wake up from dreams happy or depressed, and those feelings can stay with us all day", says Stanford sleep researcher Dr. William Dement.

The link between dreams and emotions shows up among the patients in Cartwright's clinic. Most people seem to have more bad dreams early in the night, progressing toward happier ones before awakening, suggesting that they are working through negative feelings generated during the day. Because our conscious mind is occupied with daily life we don't always think about the emotional significance of the day's events—until, it appears, we begin to dream.

And this process need not be left to the unconscious. Cartwright believes one can exercise conscious control over recur ring bad dreams. As soon as you awaken, identify what is upsetting about the dream. Visualize how you would like it to end instead; the next time occurs, try to wake up just enough to control its course. With much practice people can learn to, literally, do it in their sleep.

At the end of the day, there's probably little reason to pay attention to our dreams at all unless they keep us from sleeping of "we wake up in a panic", Cartwright says. Terrorism, economic uncertainties and general feelings of insecurity have increased people's anxiety. Those suffering from persistent nightmares should seek help from a therapist. For the rest of us, the brain has its ways of working through bad feelings. Sleep—or rather dream—on it and you'll feel better in the morning.

Researchers have come to believe that dreams ______.

A．can be modified in their courses

B．are susceptible to emotional changes

C．reflect our innermost desires and fears

D．are a random outcome of neural repairs

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A.INTENSELY

B.DURING

C.WAKE UP A.TRY TO【T7】______JUST ENOUGH

B.WORKING THROUGH NEGATIVE FEELINGS GENERATED【T8】______THE DAY

C.THESE【T9】______POWERFUL MENTAL EVENTS OF ALL THE COMPONENTS OF A GOOD NIGHT"S SLEEP, DREAMS SEEM TO BE LEAST WITHIN OUR CONTROL.IN DREAMS, A WINDOW OPENS INTO A WORLD WHERE LOGIC IS SUSPENDED AND DEAD PEOPLE SPEA

K.A CENTURY AGO, FREUD FORMULATED THIS REVOLUTIONARY THEORY THAT DREAMS WERE THE DISGUISED SHADOWS OF OUR UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES AND FEARS; BY THE LATE 1970S, NEUROLOGISTS HAD SWITCHED TO THINKING OF THEM AS JUST "MENTAL NOISE" —THE RANDOM BYPRODUCTS OF THE NEURALREPAIR WORK THAT GOES ON DURING SLEEP.NOW RESEARCHERS SUSPECT THAT DREAMS ARE PART OF THE MIND"S EMOTIONAL THERMOSTAT, REGULATING MOODS WHILE THE BRAIN IS "OFF-LINE".AND ONE LEADING AUTHORITY SAYS THAT【T10】______CAN BE NOT ONLY HARNESSED BUT TO HELP US SLEEP ANDFEEL BETTER."IT"S YOUR DREAM, " SAYS ROSALIND CARTWRIGHT, CHAIR OF PSYCHOLOGY AT CHICAGO"S MEDICAL CENTER, "IF YOU DON"T LIKE IT, CHANGE IT." EVIDENCE FROM BRAIN IMAGING SUPPORTS THIS VIEW.THE BRAIN IS AS ACTIVE DURING REM (RAPID EYE MOVEMENT) SLEEP—WHEN MOST VIVID DREAMS OCCUR—AS IT IS WHEN FULLY AWAKE, SAYS DR.ERIC NOFZINGER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG

H.BUT NOT ALL PARTS OF THE BRAIN ARE EQUALLY INVOLVED; THE LIMBIC SYSTEM (THE "EMOTIONAL BRAIN" ) IS SPECIALLY ACTIVE, WHILE THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX (THE CENTER OF INTELLECT AND REASONING ) IS RELATIVELY QUIET."WE WAKE UP FROM DREAMS HAPPY OR DEPRESSED, AND THOSE FEELINGS CAN STAY WITH US ALL DAY," SAYS STANFORD SLEEP RESEARCHER DR.WILLIAM DEMENT. THE LINK BETWEEN DREAMS AND EMOTIONS SHOWS UP AMONG THE PATIENTS IN CARTWRIGHT"S CLINI

C.MOST PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE MORE BAD DREAMS EARLY IN THE NIGHT, PROGRESSING TOWARD HAPPIER ONES BEFORE AWAKENING, SUGGESTING THAT THEY ARE【T11】______.BECAUSE OUR CONSCIOUS MIND IS OCCUPIED WITH DAILY LIFE WE DON"T ALWAYS THINK ABOUT THE EMOTIONAL SIGNIFI-CANCE OF THE DAY"S EVENTS—UNTIL, IT APPEARS, WE BEGIN TO DREA

M. AND THIS PROCESS NEED NOT BE LEFT TO THE UNCONSCIOUS.CARTWRIGHT BELIEVES ONE CAN EXERCISE CONSCIOUS CONTROL OVER RECURRING BAD DREAMS.AS SOON AS YOU AWAKEN, IDENTIFY WHAT IS UPSETTING ABOUT THE DREA

M.VISUALIZE HOW YOU WOULD LIKE IT TO END INSTEAD; THE NEXT TIME IT OCCURS,【T12】_______TO CONTROL ITS COURS

E.WITH MUCH PRACTICE PEOPLE CAN LEARN TO, LITERALLY, DO IT IN THEIR SLEEP.

The passage is intended to ______.

A．tell a moving story about Rose

B．discuss what to do to grow up

C．instruct the readers how to live meaningful lives

D．teach the readers how to realize their dreams