Question

    Do you like writing a few paragraphs every day about your experiences, hopes, memories or feelings? If you don’t, it’s time to make a change now. Write just a few paragraphs every day about your experiences, hopes, memories and feelings, and you will immediately begin to experience benefits to your personal growth and potential.

You will gradually become better at expressing yourself. 1. However,  when  you become lazy with words, you find it is more difficult to describe feelings, share experiences and make yourself understood.

2. As you write about memories, it is like opening an old photo album. Your pen begins to explore feelings and details you have forgotten and dreams you have left behind. You suddenly remember people you would like to contact again. Writing is an activity that avoids distraction(使人分心的事) long enough for you to explore those wonderful moments of the past. Sometimes they are frightening. 3.

Writing about daily experiences and feelings provides a recorded history that will influence how you make future decisions. 4. They learned from what had happened before. Your history is important. Don’t let it be forgotten.

Writing reminds you of your dreams and keeps you moving toward them. It is a means of keeping track of your purpose and the goals that will lead you to achieve them. 5. It shows when you have been distracted and may need to give all your attention again to your writing.

Writing a little every day could provide the material that someday becomes a published book. When I wrote about my depression and my four-year-old granddaughter who got lost in the mountains, I never dreamed it would be in a book.

A. You will remember things long forgotten.

B. Writing keeps you energetic and full of imagination all the time.

C. Sometimes they are wonderful and almost always they are helpful.

D. Sooner or later, you are surely to become a great professional writer.

E. Reviewing what you have written is a perfect way to see your progress.

F. There’s a reason that the greatest leaders in history were students of history.

G. When you write daily, you can always be amazed at how quickly your writing skills improve.

Answer

1.G

2.A

3.C

4.F

5.E

【解析】

本文是一篇说明文。文章告诉我们：每天写几段关于你的经历、希望、回忆的文章，你会立刻开始体验到对你个人成长和潜能的益处。

1.上文提示“你会逐渐变得更善于表达自己。”承接上文，G项When you write daily, you can always be amazed at how quickly your writing skills improve.（当你每天写作的时候，你总是会惊讶于你的写作技巧进步的如此之快。）切题。该项中的quickly your writing skills improve和上文中的expressing yourself相吻合。故选G。

2.下文提示“当你写回忆的时候，就像打开一本旧相册。”承接下文，A项You will remember things long forgotten.（你会记得很久以前忘记的事情。）切题。故选A。

3.上文提示“写作是一种长期避免分心的活动，可以让你探索过去那些美好的时刻。有时它们很可怕。”承接上文，C项Sometimes they are wonderful and almost always they are helpful. “有时它们很棒，而且几乎总是有益的。”切题。该项中的Sometimes与上文的Sometimes相吻合，故选C。

4.上文提示“记录下你的日常经历和感受，这段记录下来的历史将会影响你未来的决定。”再根据下文提示“他们从以前发生的事情中学到了东西。”承接上下文，F项There's a reason that the greatest leaders in history were students of history.（有一个理由就是历史上最伟大的领袖都是学历史的）切题。关键词是history，故答案为F。

5.上文提示“它是一种记录你的目的和目标的方法，这些目标将引导你实现它们。”再根据下文提示“当你分心的时候，它会显示出你可能需要再次把所有的注意力放在写作上。”承接上下文，E项 Reviewing what you have written is a perfect way to see your progress.（回顾你所写的东西是一个来看看你进步的完美的方式。）切题。故选E。