【推荐1】One of the most remarkable things about the human mind is our ability to imagine the future. In our _______ we can see what has not yet happened. For example, while we are looking forward to _______ a new place or country, we _______ what it will be like. We predict the _______ people will eat, dress and act. Of course，we do not always predict things _______. Things are often very different from the way we _______ them to be.

One of the _______ dreams in history is the dream of the German scientist, Kekule, who had been _______ to work out a very difficult problem in physics. He had _______ and analyzed the problem from every angle for days, but there________to be no way of ________ out the answer. Then one night he went to bed and dreamed. When he ________ up, he realized that he knew the answer. He had solved the problem in his ________.

It is said that in order to figure out the process, the hypnotist (催眠师) sat in the   chair opposite him and spoke ________: “I want you to concentrate on my voice. Think about ________.You know nothing but my voice. And as you pay attention to my voice, your ________ will get heavier. Soon you'll be asleep.

You will hear my voice and ________ my words, but your body will be asleep, your eyes are too heavy. You are ________ asleep, and when you wake up you will ________ nothing.

You will forget everything. Now I am going to ________ slowly from one to five. One, two, three, four, five...”

【推荐3】Bad Dreams Are Good!

Most of us dream, whether we remember them or not. What are dreams for? A handful of _______ dominate. Sigmund Freud famously maintained that they reveal hidden truths and wishes. More recent research suggests that they may help us process intense emotions, or perhaps sort through and strengthen memories, or _______ random neuron (神经元) activity, or prepare responses to threatening situations. Others argue that dreams have no evolutionary function, but simply _______ personal concerns.

Despite being largely unsupported by _______, Freud’s view maintains strong following around the world. Researcher found that students in the U.S., South Korea, and India were much more likely to say that dreams reveal hidden truths than to accept better _______ theories. In the same study, respondents said that dreaming about a plane crash would cause them more _______ than an official warning about a terrorist attack. Even if dreams can’t foretell the future, they seem to _______ our shared fascinations. The majority of dreams occur during REM sleep (深度睡眠) cycles, of which the average person has four or five a night.

A study of Canadian university students found the most common dream topics include school, falling, being chased, and arriving too late for something. For all the commonalities dreams _______, they vary across time and culture—people who grew up watching black-and-white TV are more likely to dream in black and white. A 1958 study _______ that compared with Japanese people, Americans dreamed more about being locked up, losing a loved one, finding money, being _______ dressed or encountering a mad person. Japanese people were more likely to dream about school, trying repeatedly to do something, being paralyzed with fear, or “wild, violent beasts.” If human dreams sound _______, bear in mind that even negative ones can have positive effects.

In a study of students taking a French medical school entrance exam, 60 percent of the dreams they had beforehand _______ problem with the exam, such as being late or leaving an answer blank. But those who reported _______ about the exam, even bad ones, did better on it than those who didn’t. So the next time you dream about an education related experience in which you are unable to answer the questions or solve a problem, don’t _______: It’s probably totally meaningless. Then again, your brain might be practicing so you’ll be _______ if such an event ever comes to pass.