Dreams
Everyone can dream. Indeed, everyone does dream. Those who ____1____ that they never dream at all actually dream ____2____ as frequently as the rest of us, ____3____ they may not remember anything about it. Even those of us who are perfectly ____4____ of dreaming night ____5____ night very seldom remember those dreams in ____6____ detail but1 merely retain an untidy mixture of seemingly unrelated impressions. Dreams are not simply visual-we dream with all our ____7____, so that we appear to experience sound, touch, smell, and taste.
One of the world’s oldest ____8____ written documents is the Egyptian Book of Dreams. This volume is about five thousand years old, so you can ____9____ that dreams were believed to have a special significance even then. Many ancient civilizations believed that you ____10____ never wake a sleeping person as, during sleep, the soul had left the body and might not be able to return ____11____ time if the sleeper were suddenly ____12____.
From ancient times to the present2 ____13____, people have been ____14____ attempts to interpret dreams and to explain their significance. There are many books available on the subject of dream interpretation, although unfortunately there are almost as many meanings for a particular dream ____15____ there are books.
詞匯：
frequently /'fri?kw?ntl?/ adv.頻繁地，經(jīng)常地;時(shí)常，屢次
seldom /'seld?m/ adv.很少，不常
retain /ri?tein/ vt.保持，記住
significance /s?g'n?f?k?ns/ n.重要性，意義
civilisation /,s?v?la?'ze???n/ n.文明，文化
interpret /?n't??pr?t/ vt.解釋，說明，口譯
interpretation /?nt??pr?'te???n/ n.解釋，口譯
注釋：
1....very seldom remember those dreams in detail but merely retain an untidy mixture...but...不……而是……
2.From ancient times to the present...從古至今……
練習(xí)：
1.A demand B promise C agree D claim
2.A also B just C only D quite
3.A though B besides C however D despite
4.A feelings B emotions C impressions D senses
5.A considered B known C regarded D estimated
6.A see B feel C ensure D think
7.A would B ought C should D need
8.A by B in C with D for
9.A awoke B awoken C awake D awaken
10.A minute B hour C moment D day
11.A doing B putting C making D taking
12.A as B like C so D such
13.A minute B hour C moment D day
14.A doing B putting C making D taking
15.A as B like C so D such
答案與題解：
1.D 這里是一個(gè)復(fù)合從句，缺的部分是帶后邊賓語從句的一個(gè)謂語成分。根據(jù)后邊賓語從句的內(nèi)容“never dream at all”，可以判斷此處應(yīng)該是claim，聲稱。demand, promise, agree都有后邊的語義不符。
2.B as frequently as已經(jīng)表達(dá)了“同樣”的意思，所以also不符合這一空。quite不能用來修飾as... as這樣的詞組，而根據(jù)上下文的語境，這里應(yīng)該是“剛好，恰恰”，所以答案是just。
3.A 根據(jù)上下文的語境，可以判斷出這一空所銜接的前后兩個(gè)句子有轉(zhuǎn)折的關(guān)系，而且后一句為條件，despite與though都可以表示“雖然，盡管”的意思，但是despite是做介詞是才有“雖然，盡管”的意思，此處缺的是一個(gè)連接詞，所以只能用though。
4.C 這四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，只有aware可以與of搭配，表示“意識到”，accustomed通常與to搭配，表示習(xí)慣于，同樣used to也表示習(xí)慣于。而familiar通常與with搭配，表示“對…熟悉”。從語義與搭配兩個(gè)層面來看，最合適的都是aware。
5.A night after night“一夜又一夜”，固定搭配。同樣的結(jié)構(gòu)還有year after year, day after day, week after week。相似的結(jié)構(gòu)有day by day “逐日，一天天”;year by year,“逐年，一年年”。
6.A 此處是在in detail這一表達(dá)當(dāng)中增加了一個(gè)形容詞，來表示細(xì)致的程度。high表示高度的變化，strong是強(qiáng)度，deep是深度，用來表示細(xì)致都不合適。所以應(yīng)該用great, in great detail，表示細(xì)致入微，描述得淋漓盡致。
7.D 從前邊的visual，以及后邊的sound, touch, smell, taste這些可以看出，這里指的是人所有的各種感官的感覺。感官叫做sense organ，所以這種種的感覺通常都用sense來表示。
8.B 根據(jù)上下文，可以發(fā)現(xiàn)此處是在描述一個(gè)事實(shí)。因此首先排除estimated“估計(jì)”，而這本最古老的書是已經(jīng)被認(rèn)定過了的，所以regard, consider都不合適，因此，答案應(yīng)該是known，目前所知的。
9.A 此處是通過從前文所描述的這樣一個(gè)事實(shí)，可以讓我們認(rèn)識到這個(gè)空后邊所表達(dá)的內(nèi)容。因此不是feel, think.也不是讓我們確認(rèn)，而只是發(fā)現(xiàn)，所以也不是ensured，而應(yīng)該是see。
10.C 根據(jù)上下文的語境，可以判斷出此處表達(dá)的是不能，不應(yīng)叫醒睡夢中的人。首先排除need，另外ought通常跟to一塊使用，所以也不可能。而would更should兩者相比，后者的程度更深，更符合這個(gè)語境。
11.B 此處應(yīng)該是及時(shí)的意思，in time，固定搭配。
12.B 此處考察的是被動語態(tài)，與動詞awake的變形。這里是被叫醒，所以A和C都排除了，表示被動態(tài)而且形式又正確的應(yīng)該是B, awoken.
13.D 這里表達(dá)的是從古到今的意思，通常都用籠統(tǒng)一些的概念，minute, moment表示的比較具體。所以用day比較合適。
14.C 此處所表達(dá)的是人類一直在嘗試，“嘗試，試圖”通常直接用attempt to，或者用make attempts to，固定搭配。
15.A as...as句式，這里所表達(dá)的前后一樣是指書的數(shù)目，與書中對夢解釋的數(shù)目的一致性。