Question

阅读下列短文，根据短文中的信息完成文后表格，写出空缺处所填单词的正确形式。（每空一词）

As more adults hope to get peace from meditation (冥想), more children want to get it too. It can help people deal with stress and find a more peaceful idea of life. The following can help children do meditation exercises.

Look at the sky

On nice days, go to nature, lie down on the grass and look up at the sky. The clouds move through the sky. But the sky stays clear, open and free. This is also how our thoughts work. Thoughts float in and out of our minds just like clouds. Allow your thoughts to come and go.

Then you know your mind is clear and free just like the sky.

Mindful bottle

Fill a bottle with water. The bottle of water stands for our minds. Then add red and blue sand to it. Red stands for our thoughts, and blue stands for our feelings and moods. Now shake it up. The water will get cloudy. We need to wait and watch the sand settle, as our thoughts, feelings and moods settle just like the sand.

Mindful listening

Sit in comfort and hold a bell or anything that makes a simple sound in your hands. Just feel and hear its sound as you ring it. Focus on the sound from the very first moment you hear it all the way to the end. When you can’t hear the sound any more, open your eyes or put up your hand.

How to find1.
Introduction	Meditation can help people deal with stress and find more peaceful 2. of life.
3.	Looking at the sky	On nice days, go 4.  and look up at the sky. The clear, open and free sky helps your thoughts float like clouds.
Mindful bottle	Make a bottle 5. of water and add red and blue sand to it. Red and blue 6.  for our thoughts, feelings and moods. Shake it up and watch the sand settle as our thoughts, feelings and moods settle like the sand.
Mindful7.	Sit 8.  and hold anything that makes a simple sound. Pay 9. to the sound from the very first to the end as you ring it. When you can’t hear the sound any more, open your eyes or 10. your hand.

Answer

1.peace

2.ideas

3.Ways/Tips/Advice/Suggestions

4.outside

5.full

6.stand

7.listening

8.comfortably

9.attention

10.raise

【解析】

本文主要说明了冥想的好处，以及就如何练习冥想提出了三点建议。

1.根据第一段中“It can help people deal with stress and find a more peaceful idea of life.”以及表格内容，可知冥想能帮助人们找到和平。故填peace。

2.根据第一段中“It can help people deal with stress and find a more peaceful idea of life.”，可知冥想能帮助人们解决压力，找到更和平的生活理念。故填ideas。

3.根据文章第一段最后一句“The following can help children do meditation exercises.”，可知下文是帮助孩子们做冥想练习的三种方式和建议。方式way，建议tip/advice/suggestion。有三种方式建议，所以用复数，根据表格结构可知首字母应大写。故填Ways/Tips/Advice/Suggestions。

4.根据“Look at the sky”中第一句“On nice days, go to nature”在天气晴朗的日子里去大自然，亦可理解为走出去go outside。故填outside。

5.根据“Mindful bottle”中的“Fill a bottle with water”用瓶子装满水，可知此空译为装满，be full of。故填full。

6.根据“Mindful bottle”中的“Red stands for our thoughts, and blue stands for our feelings and moods.”，可知红色和蓝色代表着思想，感情和情绪。代表stand for。故填stand。

7.根据标题“Mindful listening”并结合文章结构，可知第三个建议即为注意听讲Mindful listening。故填listening。

8.根据“Mindful listening”中的“Sit in comfort”，可知应是舒适地坐着，此处用comfort的副词comfortably修饰动词sit。故填comfortably。

9.根据“Mindful listening”中的“Focus on the sound from the very first moment you hear it all the way to the end.”，可知应是注意声音，注意focus on=pay attention to。故填attention。

10.根据“Mindful listening”中最后一句“open your eyes or put up your hand”，可知是举起你的手，举起raise。故填raise。