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3．The sentence “Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent” means that __. A. the people sitting beside you have to go away to receive a phone call B. you can hardly get in touch with the people sitting beside you C. modern technology makes it hard for people to have a face-to-face talk D. people can now go to work without going to the office 1．According to the passage, Elias Howe was _______． A. much more hard-working than other inventors B. the only person at the time who knew the value of dreams C. the first person to design a sewing machine that really worked D. the first person we know of who solved problems in his sleep 2. The problem Howe was trying to solve was_. A．where to put the needle B．what kind of thread to use C．how to design a needle which would not break D．how to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle 3．Thomas Edison is spoken of because __． A．he also tried to invent a sewing machine B．he got some of his ideas from dreams C．he also had difficulty in falling asleep D．he was one of Howe’s best friends 4．Dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves” because __. A. strange images are used to communicate ideas B. images which have no meaning are used C. we can never understand the real meaning D. only specially trained people can understand them (七) The greatest recent changes have been in the lives of women．During the twentieth century there was an unusual shortening of the time of a woman’s life spent in caring for children．A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old．By the time the youngest was fiftee