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Passage 2

  I've been writing for most of my life. The book Writing Without Teachers introduced me to one distinction and one practice that has helped my writing proL:esses tremendously. The distiriction is between the creative mind aml the critical mind. While you need to employ both to get to a finished result,they cannot work in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so.

  Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest barrier to writing that most of us encounter.If you are listening to that Sth grade English teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to capture a fleeting thought,the thought will die. If you capture the fleeting thought and simply share it with the world in raw form,no one is likely to understand. You must lcam to create first and then c:ritic:ize if you want to make writing the tool for thinking that it is.

  The practice LhaL can help you past your leamed bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what Elbow calls " free writing". In free writing,the objective is to get wonls down on paper non-stop,usually for 15 ~ 20 minutes. No stopping,no going back,no critic:izing.'rhe goal is to get the words flowinl;.As the words begin to flow,the ideas will come from the shadows and let themselves be captured on your notepad or your screen.

  Now you have raw materials that you can begin to work with using the critical mind that you've persuaded to sit on the side and watch quietly. Most likely,you will believe that this will take more time than you actually have ai.d you will end up staring blankly at the pages as the deadline draws near.

  Instead of staring at a blank start filling ic with words no matter how bad. Halfway through you available cirne,stop and rework your raw writing into something closer to finished product. Move back and forth until you run out of time and the final result will most likely be far better than your current practices.

When the author says the creative mind and the critical mind 'cannot work in parallel" ( Line 4,Para.1) in the writing process,he mcans .

  • A、 no one can be both creative and critical
  • B、 they cannot be regarded as equally important
  • C、 they are in constant conflict with each other
  • D、 one cannot use them at the same time
正确答案:D
答案解析:

What prevents people from writirig on is .

  • A、 putting their ideas in raw form
  • B、 attempting; to edit as they write
  • C、 ignonng grammatical soundness
  • D、 trying to capiure fleeting thoughts
正确答案:B
答案解析:

What is the chief objective of the first stage of writing?

  • A、 To organize one is thoughts logically.
  • B、 To choose an appropriate topic.
  • C、 To get one's ideas down.
  • D、 To collect raw materials.
正确答案:C
答案解析:

One common concern of writers abouL " free writing" is that.

  • A、it overstresses the role of the creative mind
  • B、it takes too much time to edit afterwards
  • C、it may bring about too much criticism
  • D、it does not help them to think clearly
正确答案:B
答案解析:

ln what way does the critical mind help the writer in the writing process?

  • A、lt refines his writing into better shape.
  • B、It helps him to come up with new ideas.
  • C、lt 8aves the writing time available to him.
  • D、lt allows him to sit on the side and observe.
正确答案:A
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