Children, especially at young ages, are very creative. And creativity can be a glorious(極好的) thing. Look at all the amazing artists and architects that have created glorious pieces of history. Look at all the authors with the award winning books. Now I am not saying everyone is going to end up this way but creativity is an important part of growing up and becoming who you are. This should be encouraged in young children as well as the older children.
Young children grow up playing with make-believe. And so many people try to make their young child see that their invisible friend isn’t real or that talking when someone is not in the room is weird. To adults it is, but for small children it is them being creative. May it be them playing house, or chef, or playing with stuffed animals, it is their creative part coming out. Some kids can have fun playing with rocks and sticks and it’s because of their creativeness that they can do this. The invisible friend part is another part of being imaginative, and is not a bad thing since they will grow out of that phase(階段). So encourage this and play along with them, play house, or stuffed animals or whatever they want to play. Help keep their imagination running. You can even make up games, like treasure hunts, or dinosaurs, super heroes; there is just so much you can choose from.
All this can help your children’s minds stay creative. The arts and music, even thoughts are an important part of life and important in our society. If we didn’t have and encourage creative thinking, we wouldn’t have had inventors, or philosophers, or as I said before, artists.
小題1:The underlined word “weird” is close in meaning to            .
A．familiarB．strangeC．commonD．natural
小題2:According to the author, if a child talks alone in a room, we should          .
A．let him be
B．stop him from doing so
C．give him some advice
D．know that he is suffering from loneliness
小題3:What is mainly talked about in the passage?
A．How creative artists and architects are born.
B．How to help children grow up in a healthy way.
C．What kind of activities children like.
D．How to help children to be creative.
小題4:The author of the passage would agree that          .
A．every child can become creative artists or inventors
B．creative people all show strange behaviors when young
C．creativity brings out great artists and architects
D．creativity is a natural ability to be born with

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:C

試題分析：文章介紹很多孩子喜歡自言自語，實際上這是創(chuàng)造力的表現(xiàn)，家長應(yīng)該鼓勵和保護孩子的創(chuàng)造力，因為只有創(chuàng)造力才能產(chǎn)生出一些偉大的人物。
小題1:B詞義理解題。結(jié)合句意“很多人試圖讓他們的孩子明白他們的看不到朋友都不是真的或不在房間里的人交談是____”可知weird應(yīng)是貶義，所以選B：奇怪的，古怪的。選B。
小題2:C細節(jié)理解題。結(jié)合The invisible friend part is another part of being imaginative可知答案是如果孩子和看不見的朋友交談，就隨他去。選A。
小題3:主旨大意題。結(jié)合文章內(nèi)容可知作者主要闡述了如何保護和鼓勵孩子的創(chuàng)造性。
小題4:細節(jié)題：從最后一段的句子：If we didn’t have and encourage creative thinking, we wouldn’t have had inventors, or philosophers, or as I said before, artists.可知創(chuàng)造力可以產(chǎn)生出偉大的藝術(shù)家和建筑師，選D
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