2 . 选词填空

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     1     greatly. The distinction is between the creative mind and the critical mind. While you need to employ both to get to a final result, they cannot work in     2     no matter how much we might like to think so.

Trying to criticize writing while it is still in progress is most possibly the single greatest

    3     to writing that most of us meet with. If you are listening to that 5th grade English teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to seize a fleeting (稍纵即逝的) 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 learn to     4     first and then criticize if you want to make writing the tool for thinking that it is.

The practice that can help you pass your     5     bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what Elbow calls “free writing”. In free writing, the     6     is to get words down on paper non-stop, usually for 15－20 minutes. No stopping, no going back, no criticizing. The goal is to get the words     7    . As the words begin to go smoothly, the ideas will come from the shadows and let themselves be     8     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 and you will end up staring blankly at the pages as the deadline draws near.

Instead of staring at a blank screen, start filling it with words no matter how bad they are. Halfway through your     9     time, stop and rework your raw writing into something closer to a(n)     10     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.

A. learned       B. processes       C. revise              D. create       E. parallel       F. available G. barrier       H. captured       I. objective              J. finished       K. flowing

3 . Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once.

The eighth chapter is exceedingly brief, and relates that Gibbons, the amateur naturalist of the district,     1     lying out on the spacious open downs without a soul     2     a couple of miles of him, as he thought, and almost dozing, heard close to him the sound as of a man coughing, sneezing, and     3     swearing savagely to himself; and looking, beheld nothing. Yet the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety     4     distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man. It grew to a climax, diminished again, and died     5     in the distance, going     6     it seemed to him in the direction of Adderdean. It lifted to a spasmodic sneeze and ended. Gibbons had heard nothing of the morning’s occurrences,     7     the phenomenon was so striking and disturbing that his philosophical tranquillity vanished; he got up hastily, and hurried     8     the steepness of the hill towards the village, as fast as he could go.

4 . 用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺，正确、连贯（每个单词限用一次）。

We can’t stop an earthquake(地震), but we can do things to make sure they don’t destroy(毁坏) whole cities. First, it is not a     1     idea to build houses along lines where    2     of the earth’s plates(板块) join together. Second, if you think there     3     be an earthquake, it is better to build houses on rocks, not on     4    . Third, you must make the houses as     5     as possible. Weak buildings will fall down in an earthquake, but strong ones may     6    .

Scientists are     7     that one day an even bigger earthquake will hit the part around San Francisco(旧金山). They call it “the Big One”. However, people today are still building more     8    . The population in and around San Francisco is     9     ten times more than it was in 1906. This means that     10     there is another earthquake, a great many houses and buildings will be destroyed.

5 . 用方框中所给的单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯（每个单词限用一次）。

A major search has been launched for a Malaysian Airlines Plane with 239 people on the after it lost contact(联系) flying     1     Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Airline officials said they were     2    and worried about the safety of the aircraft. It was not     3    which nationalities were on the plane which was flying on a     4     route(航线). Those on the plane     5    two babies and 12 crew members. Malaysian Airlines said,     6     it was working with many countries to look for the     7     plane. The airline has not said whether the pilots were able to send out a     8     for help. The airline has contacted the relatives of the passengers telling them that the flight has not     9     and they should prepare     10     for bad news. By now many countries have come up with many ways to look for the missing plane.

6 . Only when he reached the tea-house _______he realize it was the same place he’d been in last year.

7 . It was not until near the end of the letter _______ she mentioned her own plan.