Can you become a creative person? Can you learn to come up with great ideas or learn to create new things? The answer is yes.
The first step to becoming creative is to remove the words “I am not creative” from your vocabulary. Seriously, do not say them or do not say them even inside your head.
Now you need to start looking what other people are doing. The more you see what they are doing, the more you can get a feel for how they think, and how they come up with creative ideas.
Find a way or a place where you feel totally relaxed. This is important so you can let your mind come up with ideas. Write them down as you get them. For me a relaxing place is outside in nature where it is quiet and sunny, or when I take a long drive in my car by myself.
The last step is to write down a few ideas every day.
Repeat the process of reading and observing what similar people are doing and how they are being creative, finding a relaxing place to write down your thoughts, and writing down a few ideas every day until you start seeing this kind of results you are happy with. It may take a few weeks to a few months, but this is the training process you need to put your mind through to become creative.
Remember, looking at things from different angle(角度) can also make a big difference to creativity. Question the way that everyone else is doing something using the same method and see if being different and doing it another way will produce something cool.
小題1:The first step to be creative is to _____.
A．have confidence in yourself
B．look up “creativity” in the dictionary
C．understand the meaning of being creative
D．learn many new words by heart
小題2:The writer develops the fourth paragraph by ______.
A．the order of timeB．the order of space
C．giving examplesD．explaining reasons
小題3:It can be inferred that ______.
A．creativity is a gift people are born with
B．not everyone can be creative
C．it is a piece of cake to be creative
D．creativity can be gained through practice
小題4:The purpose of writing this text is to tell us how to _____.
A．learn to be creative
B．solve problems easily
C．come up with good ideas
D．improve the ability of thinking

小題1:A
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:A

試題分析：文章介紹的是學會有創(chuàng)造力的方法。要自信，環(huán)境很重要，也要多練習
小題1:推理題：從第二段的句子：The first step to becoming creative is to remove the words “I am not creative” from your vocabulary.可知要想有創(chuàng)造力，先要自信，選A
小題2:歸納題;從第四段的句子：Repeat the process of reading and observing what similar people are doing and how they are being creative, finding a relaxing place to write down your thoughts, and writing down a few ideas every day until you start seeing this kind of results you are happy with. 可知這段是通過舉例說明問題。選C
小題3:細節(jié)題：從倒數(shù)第二段的句子：It may take a few weeks to a few months, but this is the training process you need to put your mind through to become creative.可知創(chuàng)造力是可以訓練出來的，選D。
小題4:主旨題：從第一段的句子：Can you learn to come up with great ideas or learn to create new things? 可知文章介紹的是學會有創(chuàng)造力。選A
點評：文章介紹的是學會有創(chuàng)造力的方法。要自信，環(huán)境很重要，也要多練習。測試考生在閱讀基礎上的邏輯推理能力，要求考生根據(jù)文章所述事件的邏輯關系，對未說明的趨勢或結局作出合理的推斷；或根據(jù)作者所闡述的觀點理論，對文章未涉及的現(xiàn)象、事例給以解釋。考生首先要仔細閱讀短文，完整了解信息，準確把握作者觀點。
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