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【题目】请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。每个空格只填一个单词。

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】

这是一篇说明文。文章介绍了如何在创造性练习中跳出思维局限，介绍了三种创造性练习：1.使用思维导图练习来帮助学生克服思维障碍，获得创造力；2.玩一个猜谜游戏，让学生们用自己的思想和身体帮助他们的团队赢得比赛；3.通过句子接力赛来激励学生和激发创造性思维。

【1】文章第一段是文章简介，根据第一段中的Encouraging creative thinking inspires students to ask questions, try new things and apply ideas to practical situations.(鼓励创造性思维激发学生提出问题，尝试新事物，并将想法应用于实际情况)可知，此处介绍了创造性思维的好处；Use individual and group based activities to open the door to innovation and build individual confidence.(利用个人和团体活动打开创新之门，建立个人信心)可知，此处介绍了创造性练习的好处。因此简介中主要介绍了创造性思维和创造性练习的好处，benefit意为“好处”，此处要用复数形式。故填Benefits。

【2】根据第一段中的Encouraging creative thinking inspires students to ask questions, try new things and apply ideas to practical situations.(鼓励创造性思维激发学生提出问题，尝试新事物，并将想法应用于实际情况)可知，此处把practical situations替换成practice/action。故填practice/action。

【3】根据第一段中的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.(其结果是增加学习的兴趣，也增加了每个学生相信自己在各种情况下的创造力的机会)可知，增加学习兴趣的同时，学生也有了更多自信，confidence意为“自信”。故填confidence。

【4】根据第二段中的Joyce Wycoff, author of the book “Mindmapping,” explains that a mind map encourages creativity by stimulating the brain to think in different patterns.(《思维导图》一书的作者乔伊斯·怀科夫解释说，思维导图通过刺激大脑以不同的模式思考来鼓励创造力)可知，此处介绍了思维导图的定义，definition意为“定义”。故填Definition。

【5】根据第二段中的Joyce Wycoff, author of the book “Mindmapping,” explains that a mind map encourages creativity by stimulating the brain to think in different patterns.(《思维导图》一书的作者乔伊斯·怀科夫解释说，思维导图通过刺激大脑以不同的模式思考来鼓励创造力)可知，思维导图使得大脑以不同方式思考，differently意为“不同地”。故填differently。

【6】原词重现。根据第二段中的Have them add images and draw connections between ideas.(让他们添加图片并在想法之间建立联系)可知，此处是让学生在ideas(想法)之间建立联系。故填ideas。

【7】根据第三段中的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，如果你想讨论你所在州的历史，请选择那些能说明你的班级将要学习的历史事件的词汇。把全班分成小组，让志愿者把词语意思表演出来)可知，此处是让学生们表演历史词汇是一个玩游戏的例子。example意为“例子”。故填Example。

【8】根据第三段中的write the words on the board after students guess them correctly so they can see a complete list at the end of the game(在学生猜对单词后把词语写在黑板上，这样他们就能在游戏结束时看到完整的列表)可知，猜对的词语被列出在黑板上，list意为“列出”，此处“词语”和“列出”之间是被动关系，要用过去分词。故填listed。

【9】根据最后一段中的Tell them the object of the race is to build a sentence, one word at a time.(告诉他们比赛的目的是造一个句子，一次一个词)可知，这个比赛是通过造句的方式进行接力，“进行接力”可用run a relay来表示，可根据前面两点内容的表达方式Helping及Using判断出所填空应使用动词的现在分词形式。故填Running。

【10】根据最后一段中的Tell them the object of the race is to build a sentence, one word at a time.(告诉他们比赛的目的是造一个句子，一次一个词)可知，此处用be aimed at替换object，be aimed at意为“旨在”。故填aimed。