2024年牛津上海版中考英语专项训练-首字母与写作(较难)-练习2

中考专练 首字母练习 2 (1) 主题语境：人与社会 主题群：科学与技术 语篇类型：说明文 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 d___1___ of a sewing machine(缝纫机)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 p___2___ 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 o___3___ his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears (矛) raised. But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, r___4___ 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 t___5___ a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practiced 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 p___6___ 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 a___7___ part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day. It s___8___ 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 y