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sychological importance of dreams, including began investigating daydreaming as an invention and problemsolving tool about 40 years ago after they noticed famous inventors often reported making key discoveries while their minds wandered in relaxed is appreciated as a valuable tool in other areas as , for instance, in which athletes essentially daydream their own top performances, is widely used by athletes before important its history, however, daydreaming is in poor reputation are often seen by many as a waste of many of us daydream, and productively, lot of people say they have their best ideas at night, when they get up in the morning, or during a long taxi when people are in a semitrance(半催眠)state, their mind is free to wander and e up with new can also daydream successfully while exercising, walking or fact, it39。s a good idea to occupy at least part of your mind with something else while letting your daydreams spin(旋轉(zhuǎn)).A typical exercise of the daydreamer is to imagine he or she is in various settings such as a tropical beach or preparing to dive into a pool of idea is to provide the daydreamer with an experience that will help his or her realworld example, if a salesman has been rejected 20 times and is afraid of coldcalling(向素不相識(shí)的人打電話(huà)或上門(mén)推銷(xiāo)商品), he can use daydreaming to help himself relax, so that he will experience a call with less stress and bee open to learning new down or otherwise recording a dream session is of the problems is that you have a great idea and it pops out of your head before you can record also must carefully evaluate the real value of your some point, you have to step back from the daydream and figure out what39。s aren39。t going to show you what39。s 39。s not their can even be dangerous if you fail to distinguish fantasy from risk is expecting too much and taking your daydreams too to the author, Archimedes was the first man in history “to appreciate daydreaming as a problemsolving tool 2”to make a gold crown mixed with a cheaper metal 3“to study the role of daydreaming in solving problems 4”to solve a scientific problem while daydreaming to some scientists, many discoveries were made when the inventors “worked at night 2”dreamed a lot 3“concentrated their attention on their work 4”were in a relaxed state of mind to the passage, daydreaming is viewed by many today as “dangerous to a driver39。s safety 2”a waste of time 3“an athlete39。s way to top performance 4”valuable to success benefit from daydreaming, the most important thing is “to take daydreams seriously 2”to imagine oneself in various beautiful settings 3“to be open to learning new techniques and skills 4”to write down the ideas that pop up in your mind can be dangerous if “you can39。t tell what is practical and what is not 2”you step back and try to figure out what is reality 3“you let them spin during a long drive 4”you let them pop out of your mind Passage Three Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage: We live in an era when modern technology has relieved us of almost every task our grandparents once performed – from chopping wood to carrying is not the only reason for this, however: attitudes to children and work have changed dramatically in the last hundred years, and to many children physical work is a wholly foreign many homes, parents simply do not expect their children to work, even to make their own beds, wash the dishes, or mow the friend recently wrote to me: I39。m not sure my generation ever really grew don39。t know what it is to make sacrifices, to give unselfishly in ways that won39。t ever be of us are still seeking the perfect partner, the perfect car, or some other kind of elusive(難以捉摸的) no one in his right mind could desire a return to the days of child labor, sometimes it seems that the pendulum(鐘擺)has swung too far the other way, that we have forgotten the value of work as an important tool of work will not harm children。in fact, it usually does wonders for you give a child a chore to do, you develop his or her ability to follow helping to see it through to pletion, you help the child build initiative and , you can praise him or her and instill(灌輸)pride in a job well I grew up, hard physical work was part of daily used to plain about the neverending work, but my parents had no pity: “Good, hard work makes a man,” they always looking back, I am grateful for every chore I see now how work taught me selfdiscipline and concentration and prepared me for the responsibilities of to work hard means far more than learning to sweat: it means building children need to grow up loving work, not avoiding us teach them to find inspiration in the face of challenges and difficulties, not let us instill in them the desire to carry out everything they do with .By saying “to many children physical work is a wholly foreign idea”, the author means “physical work is often assigned to children 2”many children do not like physical work at all 3“physical work is too hard for many children 4”many children are not familiar with physical work does the author39。s friend mean by saying “I39。m not sure my generation ever really grew up”? 1“The younger generation wants everything ”The younger generation does not know what happiness “The younger generation grew up quite ”The younger generation is idealistic about does the author mean by saying “the pendulum has swung too far the other way”? 1“Too many children today find physical work ”P(pán)hysical work has gained importance as a tool of “Children do too little physical work ”Too little physical work is now needed in our daily did the author39。s parents react to his plaints about neverending work? 1“They disciplined ”They showed sympathy for “They said it could not be ”They took no pity on does the author think of children doing physical work? 1“It helps children build up their ”It is being unnecessary as technology “It is too great a challenge for chi