He has finished his work ________.

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He has finished his work ________.

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I’ve been writing for most of my life. The book Writing Without Teachers introduced me to one distinction(區(qū)別)and one practice that has helped my writing processes tremendously. The distinction is between the creative mind and 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 5th grade English teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to capture a fleeting (稍縱即逝的) 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 create first and then criticize if you want to make writing the tool for thinking that it is.
The practice that can help you past your learned bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what Elbow calls “free writing.” In free writing, the objective 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 flowing. 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 and you will end up staring blankly at the pages as the deadline draws near.
Instead of staring at a blank start filling it with words no matter how bad. Halfway through your available time, 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.
【小題1】When the author says the creative mind and the critical mind “cannot work in parallel” in the writing process, he means                .

During his college years, Rogers spent a summer in an Idaho logging(砍伐原木) camp. When the boss had to __36___ for a few days, he put Rogers in charge.

  “What if the men __37__ to follow my orders?” Rogers asked. He __38___ Tony, a worker who was always giving the other men a(n) __39__ time. “Fire them,” the boss said. Then, as if __40__ Rogers’ mind, he added, “I think you want to send Tony away if you __41__ the chance. I’d feel __42__ about that. I know he __43__ everybody and everything. But he is a good worker. He comes __44__ and leaves last. There has not been a(n) __45__ for eight years on the hill where he works.

  The next day Rogers went to Tony and __46__ to him. “ Tony, I was going to ask you to leave if you argued with me, __47__ I want you to know now I’m not,” he told Tony, adding what the boss had said.

  When he finished, Tony cried. “Why didn’t __48__ tell me those words eight years ago?” That day Tony worked __49__ than ever before— and he smiled!

  Rogers went back to __50__ after that summer. Twelve years later, he __51__ Tony again. He was the boss of one of the __52__ logging companies in the West. Rogers asked him how he had achieved such great __53__.

  Tony replied, “Do you still remember what you told me twelve years ago? That one minute __54__ my whole life.”

  Have you got one minute to thank someone? One minute. It can make a __55__ for a lifetime.

36. A. determine    B. leave   C. compare     D. think

37. A. like      B. pretend      C. refuse D. hope

38. A. care about    B. thought of  C. took care of       D. looked for

39. A. difficult       B. happy C. quiet   D. exciting

40. A. repeating     B. watching    C. writing       D. reading

41. A. steal     B. get      C. share   D. try

42. A. nervous       B. pleasant      C. sorry   D. right

43. A. hates    B. surprises     C. beats   D. fears

44. A. already B. soon   C. late     D. first

45. A. accident       B. worker       C. task    D. award

46. A. listened B. sang    C. spoke  D. shouted

47. A. because B. but     C. since   D. so

48. A. they     B. you     C. she     D. he

49. A. harder  B. faster  C. worse  D. less

50. A. factory B. school C. work   D. office

51. A. rescued B. chose  C. met     D. accepted

52. A. nearest  B. worst  C. strangest     D. largest

53. A. success B. luck    C. fun     D. trouble

54. A. replaced       B. seized C. changed     D. destroyed

55. A. decision       B. comment    C. mistake      D. difference