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| Salvador Dali, Memory |
I. Following the thread of
the previous post, here is a possible variant of the enlarged summary:
“Ideas have
always been the motor of progress along the centuries, yet they are far from
coming in a flash of inspiration – they are more often than not the result of
years of concentration. An inventor’s life is not an easy one: he needs, above
all, to work hard and work long hours. Such was the case of Elias Howe, the first
person to design a sewing-machine that really worked. Like many other inventors,
Howe went on thinking about the problem he was trying to solve in his restless
sleep. The dream he had associated the unsolved design of the sewing-machine
with the holes he noticed in the tip of
the spears that some fierce savages were carrying: so, in order to stop the thread from getting caught around the needle,
he had to pierce the tip.
There are also
other renowned creators whom the text mentions for having found inspiration in
dreams in order to solve their problems: inventors such as Thomas Edison, composers
like Igor Stravinsky – even writers like Charlotte Brontë. That is the reason why
dreams are sometimes called 'secret messages to ourselves': they contain strange
images which communicate ideas.”
[You will find the key to the exercises of the previous post after the page break]
USE OF ENGLISH
[adapted from
New Success at First Certificate,
by Robert O’Neill, Michael Duckworth & Kathy Gude]
This is a dream that a young man called Martin Ellward once had. It is
told in his own words but some of these words are missing.
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| Salvador Dali, The Fourth Dimension |
I dreamt that I was standing in…….(1) of a small aeroplane. I was trying
to persuade my girlfriend to.......(2) in it with me. At first she didn't....... (3) to but finally she agreed. I started the.......(4)
and we took off. I wanted to impress her so I started.......(5) some dives and
rolls. I could.......(6) that she wasn't really enjoying it so I.......(7).
Then I suddenly noticed that the weather.......(8) turned bad and that we were
flying.......(9) some mountains. They.......(10) very dangerous, with tall,
jagged peaks.......(11) fell away steeply. It was just then that I heard a
strange.......(12) from the engine. It was coughing and spluttering as if we
were about to.......(13) out of fuel.
'What's happening?' my girlfriend.......(14) me. I.......(15) her
everything was all right and that there.......(16) nothing to worry about. But
suddenly the engine stopped and we began to.......(17) height. The mountains
were getting closer and closer and I knew we were going to.......(18) into
them. My girlfriend turned to me with a terrified.......(19) on her face. 'This
is all your.......(20)!' she shouted.
Here are fifteen of the missing words. Where do they belong? Can you
guess the rest?
asked- crash- doing- engine - front- get- look- looked/were -noise- stopped- told- towards- was- want- which/that
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