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【題目】請認真閱讀下面短文，并根據所讀內容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一個最恰當的單詞。注意：請將答案寫在答題卡上相應題號的橫線上。每個空格只填一個單詞。

How to Think Outside the Box with Creativity Exercises

Encouraging creative thinking inspires students to ask questions, try new things and apply ideas to practical situations. Use individual and group based activities to open the door to innovation and build individual confidence. Incorporate creativity activities into everyday subject matter like English, science and art. The result will be increased interest in learning and the opportunity for each student to believe in her power to be creative in a variety of situations. Three creativity exercises are suggested as follows.

Use a mind-mapping exercise to help students overcome mind blocks to creativity.

Joyce Wycoff, author of the book “Mindmapping,” explains that a mind map encourages creativity by stimulating the brain to think in different patterns. Put a concept in the center of a large piece of paper and have your students surround the paper, each holding a marker. Ask them to brainstorm ideas and write them as offshoots (分支) to the concept. Have them add images and draw connections between ideas. You can use this to help them create a project, study for tests or organize a research paper.

Play a game of charades to empower students to use their minds and bodies to help their team win the game.

Select words that apply to a new topic you wish to introduce to the class. For example, if you want to discuss the history of your state, pick words that illustrate historical events your class will study. Divide the class into teams and ask volunteers to act out the words. Have students guess what the words are, and write the words on the board after students guess them correctly so they can see a complete list at the end of the game. Go back and forth between teams until all words have been used. When the game is over, ask the class to guess what the words have in common.

Invigorate (鼓舞) your students and stimulate creative thinking by facilitating a sentence relay race.

The goal of the race is to see which team can compose a sentence on a given subject. Begin by taping large pieces of paper to the wall and line up student teams about 5 feet from the wall. Give the teams one marker and a subject for the sentence. Tell them the object of the race is to build a sentence, one word at a time. The first student in each team will begin the sentence with a word. He will then run the marker to the next teammate and continue the process until each student has added a word to the sentence. The sentence relay will encourage quick thinking and stimulate creativity. Use the race to introduce a social studies concept or to reinforce the plot of a story for English class.

How to Think Outside the Box with Creativity Exercises
Introduction		【1】of encouraging creative thinking and organizing creativity exercises	Students are more likely to ask questions, try new things and put ideas into 【2】. Students will be increasingly interested in learning and have more【3】to be creative by means of
Creativity exercises	Helping Students Map Their Minds	【4】of a mind map and how to use it	It encourages creativity by making the brain think 【5】. Put a concept in the middle of the paper to which students add 【6】and draw connections between them.
	Using Dramatic Play to Lead Students to be Creative	【7】.	Volunteers are asked to act out the words illustrating historical events, of which the correctly guessed words are 【8】.
	【9】a Relay by Building a Sentence	The race is 【10】at building a sentence, one student, one word at a time until each teammate has made an addition to the sentence.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】Benefits

【2】practice/action

【3】confidence

【4】Definition

【5】differently

【6】ideas

【7】Example

【8】listed

【9】Running

【10】aimed

【解析】

這是一篇說明文。文章介紹了如何在創(chuàng)造性練習中跳出思維局限，介紹了三種創(chuàng)造性練習：1.使用思維導圖練習來幫助學生克服思維障礙，獲得創(chuàng)造力；2.玩一個猜謎游戲，讓學生們用自己的思想和身體幫助他們的團隊贏得比賽；3.通過句子接力賽來激勵學生和激發(fā)創(chuàng)造性思維。

【1】文章第一段是文章簡介，根據第一段中的Encouraging creative thinking inspires students to ask questions, try new things and apply ideas to practical situations.(鼓勵創(chuàng)造性思維激發(fā)學生提出問題，嘗試新事物，并將想法應用于實際情況)可知，此處介紹了創(chuàng)造性思維的好處；Use individual and group based activities to open the door to innovation and build individual confidence.(利用個人和團體活動打開創(chuàng)新之門，建立個人信心)可知，此處介紹了創(chuàng)造性練習的好處。因此簡介中主要介紹了創(chuàng)造性思維和創(chuàng)造性練習的好處，benefit意為“好處”，此處要用復數形式。故填Benefits。

【2】根據第一段中的Encouraging creative thinking inspires students to ask questions, try new things and apply ideas to practical situations.(鼓勵創(chuàng)造性思維激發(fā)學生提出問題，嘗試新事物，并將想法應用于實際情況)可知，此處把practical situations替換成practice/action。故填practice/action。

【3】根據第一段中的The result will be increased interest in learning and the opportunity for each student to believe in her power to be creative in a variety of situations.(其結果是增加學習的興趣，也增加了每個學生相信自己在各種情況下的創(chuàng)造力的機會)可知，增加學習興趣的同時，學生也有了更多自信，confidence意為“自信”。故填confidence。

【4】根據第二段中的Joyce Wycoff, author of the book “Mindmapping,” explains that a mind map encourages creativity by stimulating the brain to think in different patterns.(《思維導圖》一書的作者喬伊斯·懷科夫解釋說，思維導圖通過刺激大腦以不同的模式思考來鼓勵創(chuàng)造力)可知，此處介紹了思維導圖的定義，definition意為“定義”。故填Definition。

【5】根據第二段中的Joyce Wycoff, author of the book “Mindmapping,” explains that a mind map encourages creativity by stimulating the brain to think in different patterns.(《思維導圖》一書的作者喬伊斯·懷科夫解釋說，思維導圖通過刺激大腦以不同的模式思考來鼓勵創(chuàng)造力)可知，思維導圖使得大腦以不同方式思考，differently意為“不同地”。故填differently。

【6】原詞重現。根據第二段中的Have them add images and draw connections between ideas.(讓他們添加圖片并在想法之間建立聯(lián)系)可知，此處是讓學生在ideas(想法)之間建立聯(lián)系。故填ideas。

【7】根據第三段中的For example, if you want to discuss the history of your state, pick words that illustrate historical events your class will study. Divide the class into teams and ask volunteers to act out the words.(例如，如果你想討論你所在州的歷史，請選擇那些能說明你的班級將要學習的歷史事件的詞匯。把全班分成小組，讓志愿者把詞語意思表演出來)可知，此處是讓學生們表演歷史詞匯是一個玩游戲的例子。example意為“例子”。故填Example。

【8】根據第三段中的write the words on the board after students guess them correctly so they can see a complete list at the end of the game(在學生猜對單詞后把詞語寫在黑板上，這樣他們就能在游戲結束時看到完整的列表)可知，猜對的詞語被列出在黑板上，list意為“列出”，此處“詞語”和“列出”之間是被動關系，要用過去分詞。故填listed。

【9】根據最后一段中的Tell them the object of the race is to build a sentence, one word at a time.(告訴他們比賽的目的是造一個句子，一次一個詞)可知，這個比賽是通過造句的方式進行接力，“進行接力”可用run a relay來表示，可根據前面兩點內容的表達方式Helping及Using判斷出所填空應使用動詞的現在分詞形式。故填Running。

【10】根據最后一段中的Tell them the object of the race is to build a sentence, one word at a time.(告訴他們比賽的目的是造一個句子，一次一個詞)可知，此處用be aimed at替換object，be aimed at意為“旨在”。故填aimed。