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the desire to rewrite, it is important to learn to like what you write at the early stage.
I am surprised at the number of famous writers I know who say that they so dislike reading their own
writing later that they even hate to look over the publishers" opinions. One reason we may dislike reading
our own work is that we"re often disappointed that the rich ideas in our minds seem very thin and plain
when first written down. Jerry Fodor and Steven Pinker suggest that this fact may be a result of how our
minds work.
Different from popular belief, we do not usually think in the words and sentences of ordinary language
but in symbols for ideas (known as"mentalese"),and writing our ideas down is an act of translation from
that symbolic language. But while mentalese contains our thoughts in the form of a complex tapestry (织锦),writing can only be composed one thread at a time. Therefore it should not be surprising that our first
attempt at expressing ideas should look so simple. It is only by repeatedly rewriting that we produce new
threads and connect them to get closer to the ideas formed in our minds.
When people write as if some strict critics (批评家) are looking over their shoulder, they are so
worried about what this critic might say that they get stuck before they even start. Peter Elbow makes an
excellent suggestion to deal with this problem. When writing we should have two different minds. At the
first stage, we should see every idea, as well as the words we use to express it, as wonderful and worth
putting down. It is only during rewrites that we should examine what we excitedly wrote in the first stage
and check for weaknesses.
B. Some of them write surprisingly much.
C. Many of them hate reading their own works.
D. They are happy to review the publishers" opinions.
B. Human ideas are translated into symbols.
C. People think by connecting threads of ideas.
D. Human thoughts are expressed through pictures.
B. Loving our own writing is scientifically reasonable.
C. The writers and critics can never reach an agreement.
D. Thinking and writing are different stages of mind at work.
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核心考点
试题【阅读理解。 It is true that good writers rewrite and rewrite and then rewrite some】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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When she was fourteen, Michel was already 3 interested in the differences in her friends" 4
that she would spend hours 5 them. After 6 college she went to France for a 7 two-year
class in handwriting at the School of Police Science.
Michel says that it is 8 for people to hide their handwriting. She can discover 9 of what she
needs to know simply 10 looking at the writing with her own eyes, 11 she also has machines
12 help her make 13 different kinds of paper and ink. This knowledge is often 14 great help
to the police.
Michel believes that handwriting is a good 15 of what kind of person the 16 is. "I wouldn"t
go out with a fellow 17 I didn"t like his handwriting." She says. But she 18 she fell in love with her
future husband, a young policeman 19 she studied his handwriting. It is later proved to b 20 ,
however.
( )2. A. search
( )3. A. so
( )4. A. books
( )5. A. writing
( )6. A. attending
( )7. A. powerful
( )8. A. main
( )9. A. most
( )10. A. with
( )11. A. so
( )12. A. they
( )13. A. up
( )14. A. of
( )15. A. test
( )16. A. thief
( )17. A. whether
( )18. A. adds
( )19. A. before
( )20. A. necessary
B. follow
B. too
B. letter
B. studying
B. finishing
B. natural
B. safe
B. nothing
B. by
B. for
B. in which
B. out
B. to
B. sign (标记)
B. criminal
B. unless
B. tells
B. after
B. all right
C. catch
C. quite
C. tongues
C. settling
C. starting
C. special
C. easy
C. little
C. of
C. thus
C. that
C. for
C. with
C. means
C. writer
C. if
C. repeats
C. so
C. important
D. judge
D. extra
D. handwriting
D. uncovering
D. stepping into
D. common
D. impossible
D. sight
D. about
D. but
D. those
D. into
D. for
D. habit
D. policeman
D. after
D. cries
D. and
D. quite easy
spinach to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach.
Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many
people"s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.
Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does
not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.
People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a
mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that
spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted
it.
Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person
is.However, spinach does have something else which the body needs-folic acid.
It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic
acid that made Popeye strong all along.
B. The Truth About Spinach
C. A Mistake with Numbers
D. Folic Acid Makes You Strong
B. They thought Popeye was funny.
C. Spinach had a lot of iron.
D. People liked folic acid.
B. was a green vegetable
C. had less iron than other green vegetables
D. had more iron than other green vegetables
B. folic acid
C. spinach
D. exercise
B. a vegetable
C. dangerous
D. a certain kind of spinach
阅读下列回函:
Thank you for your valuable suggestions. We have decided to show the Chinese character along with
the Hanyu Pinyin for names of Chinese personages, places and specific things as from the next issue.
Reply letter B
Thank you for your suggestions. Next year will be the 50th anniversary of the establishment of
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. One of our staff reporters has just returned from Xinjiang and
written a long article about her trip. Next year, we will have even more coverage of Xinjiang.
Reply letter C
Other readers have asked us for similar information and we have so far answered them individually. In
this issue, we will print an open reply. We discovered after making a survey that there are few books to
be found on China printed in English. Most are published by the Foreign Languages Press and China
International press, from where it is possible to buy books directly.
Reply letter D
A majority of Chinese tourists travel abroad in order to see different landscapes and various cultures,
to appreciate an exotic atmosphere and to get to know local customs. Some Chinese tourists nevertheless go to China towns, because they can eat Chinese food there. For those who don"t know English or the
native language of the country they visit, it is convenient to go shopping or find entertainment in a
Chinatown.
Reply letter E
We have taken on your suggestions to start a column on personalities. There are kinds of reports,
such as movie stars, directors, businessmen, singers and so on. Our reports not only introduce their
achievements, but also report their inner world. We hope you will enjoy it.
Reply letter F
Thanks for your appreciation of our magazine. We have mailed your letter and your e-mail address to
Tingting. Since both of her two letters were sent by ordinary mail and did not give her e-mail address or
telephone number. We could not get in touch with her any other way.
阅读下列信函,然后匹配相关信息:
Letter A
I have just started reading your magazine regularly and enjoy the articles very much. I have one
comment to make. Can you include the Chinese characters for the names of people, places, etc that you
mention with the Hanyu Pinyin of Romanized phonetic system that you use? For example, what is "Emei"
or "Qitaihe"or "Shaoxing" in Chinese? It"s also helpful for those of us who are learning Chinese.
Letter B.
It was interesting to read the magazine. I wonder if you could start a column which introduces the
Chinese elites of art, business, sports, politics, especially directors, actors, anchors (主持人) and singers.
I believe readers will also appreciate a livelier style.
Letter C
I am a civil servant in Xinjiang, a region relatively underdeveloped in comparison with other provinces. But this does not mean it belong to another world. Xinjiang could benefit from overseas exchanges as
well as contact with people living in other regions. Could you include articles about Xinjiang and its
people? I suggest magazines report more about the western regions, especially exotic and charming
Xinjiang.
Letter D
I am an avid (热衷的) reader of your magazine and it has helped me to introduce China to foreign
friends. Thank you for great efforts to bring New China to the world. Next month, I may get the
opportunity to go to Nigeria, so I must learn more about China"s history and culture. Could you kindly
recommend a suitable book in English?
Letter E
It was interesting to read "Chinese Travelers Step out". It seems a large percentage of Chinese tourists
visit the West. In Indonesia, Chinese New Year is an official holiday. How would you assess the level of
interest Chinese tourists have in Indonesia? Would they like to visit Chinatowns or other unique attractions in Indonesia?
信函 回函
1. LetterA A. Reply letter A
2. LetterB B. Reply letter B
3. LetterC C. reply letter C
4. LetterD D. Reply letter D
5. LetterE E. Reply letter E
It is a 1 that starts in school. The cool kids are good at sports. They are 2 with the opposite sex.
They are goodlooking and people want to 3 their style. They can do their homework but they don"t
4 a big effort. That would not be cool.
The uncool kids are in the 5 of the playground. They are very bright,but they don"t have great
6 skills and they are 7 at sports. When they are not programming computers or doing calculus
(微积分) in their heads, they are reading comic books and watching shows 8 the X Files. They
are 9 as the geeks (怪人).
Here are the geeks. The geeks are taking over (占上风). Make friends with them now 10 they
will put virus in your computer and 11 your math homework to ruin. Geeks might not be popular at
school, yet they do pass their examinations, and they might not be too popular at university, but 12
good degrees.
The most important 13 of the 21st century, computers and IT, has been at least partly created
by geeks. Geek heroes like Bill Gates 14 others to follow their examples. Being a geek is a way of
earning good money. And the creation of the Internet gave them a 15 of their own to work and play
in,making them a global force. 16 , the effect of the geeks 17 popular culture has started a new
trend. It is now cool to be 18 . Geek culture is becoming an important part of general popular
culture, in which what you know is more important than 19 you look like.
But there are also 20 . Geeks were often bullied (欺侮) or laughed at in school. Now a geek may be
your boss. Perhaps it is time for punishment.
( )2. A. pleasant
( )3. A. take
( )4. A. have
( )5. A. corner
( )6. A. operating
( )7. A. good
( )8. A. like
( )9. A. admired
( )10. A. and
( )11. A. put
( )12. A. win
( )13. A. industry
( )14. A. excite
( )15. A. room
( )16. A. Somehow
( )17. A. in
( )18. A. rich
( )19. A. how
( )20. A. risks
B. popular
B. act
B. suffer
B. team
B. speaking
B. active
B. for
B. thought
B. so
B. place
B. take
B. progress
B. discourage
B. world
B. However
B. of
B. uncool
B. that
B. questions
C. crazy
C. copy
C. support
C. group
C. social
C. hopeless
C. such
C. known
C. or
C. bring
C. wish
C. discovery
C. demand
C. chance
C. Though
C. on
C. attractive
C. how much
C. shortcomings
D. particular
D. advance
D. make
D. center
D. experimental
D. sharp
D. as
D. treated
D. that
D. take
D. finish
D. improvement
D. promise
D. heaven
D. Besides
D. for
D. handsome
D. what
D. chances
lined with bookshelves, most of my childhood was spent on books I could get hold of. In fact, I grew up
thinking of reading as natural as breathing and books unbelievably powerful in shaping perspectives (观
点) by creating worlds we could step into, take part in and live in.
With this unshakable belief, I, at fourteen, decided to become a writer. Here too, reading became
useful. Every writer starts off knowing that he has something to say, but being unable to find the right
ways to say it. He has to find his own voice by reading widely and discovering which parts of the writers
he agrees or disagrees with, or agrees with so strongly that it reshapes his own world. He cannot write
without loving to read, because only through reading other people"s writing can one discover what
works, what doesn"t and, in the end, together with lots of practice, what voice he has.
Now I am in college, and have come to realize how important it is to read fiction (文学作品). As a
law student, my reading is in fact limited to subject matter-the volume (量) of what I have to read for
classes every week means there is little time to read anything else. Such reading made it all the clearer to
me that I live in a very small part in this great place called life. Reading fiction reminds me that there is life
beyond my own. It allows me to travel across the high seas and along the Silk Road, all from the comfort
of my own armchair, to experience ,though secondhand, exciting experiences that I wouldn"t necessary
be able to have in my lifetime.
B. He read what he had to.
C. He found reading unbelievable.
D. He considered reading part of his life.
B. a sound quality
C. a way of writing
D. a world to write about
B. It opens up a wider world for him.
C. It makes his college life more interesting.
D. It increases his interest in worldwide travel.
B. How do I read?
C. What do I read?
D. When do I read?
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