Elias Howe is always used to going to bed at 4 o’clock in the morning. Working all night became his living habit. Who’s Elias Howe? You may never hear of him. He was born in America. The sewing (缝纫) machine was invented by him.

Over 100 years ago, without modern machines. people had to do the sewing by hand. Elias decided to design a machine to do the sewing instead of our hands. However, he had a trouble. He couldn’t get the thread (线) to run around the needle (针). Inventing sewing machine was his dream. So he did not give up. He kept thinking about how to solve this problem.

Once he was tired, he slept in bed. He had a dream. In the dream he was caught by a king. The king ordered him to build a perfect sewing machine, or the king would kill him. Elias met the same problem as before. The king was so angry that he ordered his soldiers to kill him. The soldiers raised spears (长矛) and came up to him. Suddenly Elias noticed something. There was a hole in the tip (尖端) of each spear.

Before the spears stuck to his body, Elias woke up from the dream. And he realized that he had found the answer to the problem. Instead of getting the thread to run around the needle, he made it run through a small hole in the tip of the needle. A simple thought finally made Elias invent the first sewing machine.

【小题1】Why did Elias go to bed at about 4 o’clock a.m.?

A．Because he got used to working at night.	B．Because he liked to play at night.
C．Because he had sleeping problems.	D．Because of the noise of the machine.

【小题2】What can we know from the second paragraph?

A．Elias’s parents lived on sewing.

B．People preferred to do sewing by hand over 100 years ago.

C．Elias wanted to invent the sewing machine to make money.

D．Elias had difficulty in inventing the sewing machine.

【小题3】What does the underlined word “something” mean?

A．Problem.

B．Hole.

C．Dream.

D．Spear.

【小题4】What happened in Elias’s dream at last?

A．Elias was killed.	B．The king was killed.
C．Elias had a good thought.	D．Elias caught the soldiers.

【小题5】What can we know from the passage?

A．Sleeping can also solve the problem.

B．Elias Howe’s dream came true.

C．Working at night is helpful in new inventions.

D．If you want to invent something, you should have a good dream.