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Have you ever noticed what happens to an idea once you express it? Just talking about it or writing it down causes you to make it clear in your own mind. How can you use this to increase your brain power? Start writing.

By putting thoughts into words, you are telling yourself the logic (邏輯) behind what you think, feel, or only partly understand. Often, explaining a thought is the process of understanding. In other words, you increase your brain power by exercising your “explain power.”

Try this experiment. Explain how you’ll increase your brain power, even if you have no idea how right now. Just start with anything, and create an explanation. For example, start with “I’ll learn chess,” or “I’ll read an article on the mind every week.” Explain how that will help. You’ll be surprised how often this becomes a workable plan, and if you actually do this, you’ll have a better understanding of your brain twenty minutes from now.

Another benefit of writing is that it helps you remember. Many, if not most, highly productive people are always taking notes. You can try keeping it all in your head, but if you keep a journal of your ideas the next time you’re working on a big project, you’ll probably have more success.

Want to understand a topic? Write a book about it. That’s an extreme example, but if you are learning something new, write a letter to a friend about it, and you will understand it better. Want to invent something? Write an explanation of the problem, why you want to solve it, and why it is worth solving, and you’re half-way there.

Writers don’t always write because they clearly understand something beforehand. Often, they write about something because they want to understand it. You can do the same. Writing will help bring you to an understanding. Give it a try.

71. What would be the best title for the text?

   A. A Way on How to Write

   B. Increase Your Brain Power through Writing

   C. Brain Power Helps Improve Your Writing

   D. How to Start Your Writing

72. According to the text, writing can help you a lot in the following ways EXCEPT ______.

   A. the increase of your brain power

   B. the ability to remember

   C. the development of your interest in study

   D. the better understanding of a topic

73. If a writer writes something, it means that he or she _______.

   A. has understood it very well

   B. needs to understand it better

   C. wants to remember it in his or her mind

   D. is exercising his or her “explain power”

74. The underlined sentence “you’re half-way there” in the fifth paragraph implies that ______.

   A. you are already successful

   B. you still need to work hard

   C. writing can help you walk half way

   D. writing is important to solve problems

75. What’s the main purpose of the writer writing the text?

   A. To advise readers to start their writing.

   B. To explain the importance of writing.

   C. To persuade readers to become writers.

   D. To increase readers’ brain power.

Answer 1

71--75   BCBDA  

解析:

本文屬于議論性文章，主要是講了通過寫作，可以把你自己的一些想法理解地更加清晰，更加透徹，從而進一步提高你的大腦思維能力。

71. B。          概括標題題。本文主要是講了通過寫作，可以把你自己的一些想法理解地更加清晰，更加透徹，從而進一步提高你的大腦思維能力。選項B揭示了本文的主旨。

72. C。          細節判斷題。文章第二段、第四段和第五段分別提到了選項A、B、D的內容，而對于選項C，文章則沒有涉及到。

73. B。          事實細節題。由文章最后一段可知，一個作者要去寫什么東西，那就說明他想更好地去理解它。

74. D。          句意猜測題。文章第五段主要是說寫作能夠幫助你去理解一個話題，幫助你解決一些問題，如果寫出對于問題的解釋，那么就等于解決了問題的一半，這足以說明寫作的重要性。同時，解決問題的一半并不是說你就成功了，所以選項A不對；而選項B、C的理解出現偏差，所以不對。

75. A。          推理判斷題。本篇文章通過敘述寫作的優點，說明其重要性，但是，所有這些都是為了勸說讀者進行寫作所進行的鋪墊，特別是文章的最后一段的最后一句，更是點名了本篇文章真實目的。