My family is neither rich nor poor. We have two rooms and one living room, one kitchen

Franco: Is this your calligraphy, Xiaoyan？

Xiaoyan: Yes. Do you like it？

Franco: It' beautiful.

Xiaoyan: 1 think I'm good at art because my father is an artist.

Franco: l' m not. My handwriting is terrible, but 1 always write personal letters by hand.

一I don't like using the computer for that.

Xiaoyan: Neither do 1. But my family only send emails, don' t get real letters anymore.

Franco: Me neither - I'll write you a real letter!

Xiaoyan: Thank you! But I like using the computer for some things. I 'm keen on

researching my family history and I love surfing the Internet for information about that.

Franco: Really -me too!

31. Franco's handwriting is beautiful.

A. Right

B. Wrong

32. Franco doesn' t like using computers for personal letters.

A. Right

B. Wrong

33. Xiaoyan doesn' t like using computers for personal letters.

A. Right

B. Wrong

34. Xiaoyan enjoys surfing the internet for information about her family history.

A. Right

B. Wrong

35. Franco is not interested in researching his family history.

A. Right

B. Wrong

Creativity

Creativity is neither something learned by applying a formula nor is it the unfettered, chaotic product of a genius. Instead, creativity should be viewed as an individualized process that helps the creator find order within chaos (or vice versa).

Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known. To create is to "bring into or cause to come into existence; make; originate".

I find most often that my creative product IS my scholarship. Whether I compile a script, enact a performance art installation, or construct a fragmented review of a performance, I take a leap and then look around to see what I've gotten myself into. Although my scholarship takes many forms (screenplays; non-linear narratives; and combinations of video, sound, and movement pieces), initially my research resembles a puzzle, a collage of images and texts that do not seem to go together. I appear to have gotten into a mess, which is exactly where I had hoped to be. For me, creativity is a messy process that leads to the creation of "messy texts".

I will provide you with my working definition of creativity. Next, I will discuss the concept of "messy texts," including a brief historical overview of how such expressive forms of scholarship developed. Third, I will explain how and why I wrote a messy text. Finally, I will challenge you to write a messy text of your own.

Creativity is just something that's always been a part of my life. Ever since I first drew cartoon heads in the margins of our family Bible, I have been labeled "creative". Infrequent name calling aside, I always embraced and welcomed tile label. Teachers and family members encouraged it. I felt appreciated despite my perceived "kookiness" because some people valued my creative innovations and willingness to view things from multiple perspectives.

This willingness to innovate is alluded to in self-growth guru Gail Sheehy's book Pathfinders (1981). She suggests that we should think of creativity as a four-part process: 1) Preparation, 2) Incubation, 3) Immersion & Illumination, and 4) Revision. Although interesting, Sheehy's description of the creative process does not really capture the essence of my own creative process. However, I finally found one that provided the flexibility I needed. Franklin Baer, a public health physician fascinated with the topic of creativity has created an interactive web page that can help anyone create her/his own personalized creativity process. So I went to the site and created my own process, an acronym using the letters of the word CREATE:

Collect — gather information from a variety of sources

Reflect — generate many ideas, questions, and responses to the information

Embrace — select which idea(s) to focus on and expand

Amend — work with an idea until it begins to take shape

Toil — become obsessed with a project until it is complete

Exhibit — find a venue for displaying the creative product.

These verbs come closest to describing how the creative process works for me.

According to the first paragraph, the author would most likely agree with the idea that

A．the creative process is neither chaotic nor orderly.

B．the creative process is both chaotic and orderly.

C．the creative process is either chaotic or orderly.

D．the creative process is an individualized one.

Perhaps there are far (1) wives than I imagine who take it for (2) that housework is neither satisfying nor even important once the basic demands of hygiene and feeding have been (3) But home and family is the one realm in (4) it is really difficult to shake free of one&39;s upbringing and (5) new values. My parents&39; house was impeccably kept; cleanliness was a moral and social virtue, and personal untidiness, visibly old clothes, or long male hair provoked biting jocularity. If that (6) been all, maybe I could have adapted myself (7) housework on an easy-going, utilitarian basis, refusing the moral overtones (8) still believing in it as something constructive (9) it is part of creating a home. But at the same time my mother (10) to resent doing it, called it drudgery, and convinced me that it wasn&39;t a fit activity for an intelligent being. I was the only child, and once I was at school there was no (11) why she should have continued (12) her will to remain housebound, unless, as I suspect, my father would not hear of her having a job of her own.

I can now begin to (13) why a woman in a small suburban house, with no infants to look after, who does not (14) reading because she has not had much of an education, and who is intelligent (15) to find neighborly chit-chat boring, should carry the pursuit of microscopic specks of dust to the (16) of fanaticism in an (17) to fill hours and salvage her serf-respect. My parents had not even the status-seeking impetus to send me to university that Joe&39;s had; my mother (18) me to be "a nice quiet person who wouldn&39;t be (19) in a crowd", and it was feared that university education (20) in ingratitude (independence).

A.Enough material things.

B.Sound relations with people.

C.Having a luxurious private plane.

D.A long list of properties.

Creativity

Creativity is neither something learned by applying a formula nor is it the unfettered, chaotic product of a genius. Instead, creativity should be viewed as an individualized process that helps the creator find order within chaos (or vice versa).

Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known. To create is to "bring into or cause to come into existence; make; originate".

I find most often that my creative product is my scholarship. Whether I compile a script, enact a performance art installation, or construct a fragmented review of a performance, I take a leap and then look around to see what I've gotten myself into. Although my scholarship takes many forms (screenplays; non- linear narratives; and combinations of video, sound, and movement pieces), initially my research resembles a puzzle, a collage of images and texts that do not seem to go together. I appear to have gotten into a mess, which is exactly where I had hoped to be. For me, creativity is a messy process that leads to the creation of "messy texts".

I will provide you with my working definition of creativity. Next, I will discuss the concept of "messy texts," including a brief historical overview of how such expressive forms of scholarship developed. Third, I will explain how and why I wrote a messy text. Finally, I will challenge you to write a messy text of your own.

Creativity is just something that's always been a part of my life. Ever since I first drew cartoon heads in the margins of our family Bible, I have been labeled "creative". Infrequent name calling aside, I always embraced and welcomed the label. Teachers and family members encouraged it. I felt appreciated despite my perceived "kookiness" because some people valued my creative innovations and willingness to view things from multiple perspectives.

This willingness to innovate is alluded to in self-growth guru Gail Sheehy's book Pathfinders (1981). She suggests that we should think of creativity as a four-part process: 1 ) Preparation, 2) Incubation, 3) Immersion & Illumination, and 4) Revision. Although interesting, Sheehy's description of the creative process does not really capture the essence of my own creative process. However, I finally found one that provided the flexibility I needed. Franklin Baer, a public health physician fascinated with the topic of creativity has created an interactive web page that can help anyone create her/his own personalized creativity process. So I went to the site and created my own process, an acronym using the letters of the word CREATE :

Collect -- gather information from a variety of sources

Reflect -- generate many ideas, questions, and responses to the information

Embrace -- select which idea(s) to focus on and expand

Amend -- work with an idea until it begins to take shape

Toil -- become obsessed with a project until it is complete

Exhibit -- find a venue for displaying the creative product

These verbs come closest to describing how the creative process works for me.

According to the first paragraph, the author would mostly likely agree with the idea that______.

A．the creative process is neither chaotic nor orderly

B．the creative process is both chaotic and orderly

C．the creative process is either chaotic or orderly

D．the creative process is an individualized one

nthropic foundations. I couldn't be happier with that decision.

Some material things make my life more enjoyable; many, however, would not. I like having an expensive private plane, but owning a half-dozen homes would be a burden. Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest. Both my children and I won what I call the ovarian lottery. (For starters, the odds against my 1930 birth taking place in the U. S. were at least 30 to 1. My being male and white also removed huge obstacles that a majority of Americans then faced. )

My luck was accentuated by my living in a market system that sometimes produces distorted results, though overall it serves our country well. I've worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions. In short, fate' s distribution of long straws is wildly capricious.

The reaction of my family and me to our extraordinary good fortune is not guilt, but rather gratitude. Were we to use more than 1% of my claim checks on ourselves, neither our happiness nor our well-being would be enhanced. In contrast, that remaining 99% can have a huge effect on the health and welfare of others. That reality sets an obvious course for me and my family: Keep all we can conceivably need and distribute the rest to society, for its needs. My pledge starts us down that course.

According to the author, which of the following can NOT bring happiness？

A．Enough material things.

B．Sound relations with people.

C．Having a luxurious private plane.

D．A long list of properties.

ever late for work; they return their books on time to the library; they remember people's birthdays; and they pay their bills as soon as they arrive．Mr．Hill is such a man. Mr．Hill works in a bank, and lives alone．The only family he has is in the next town: his sister lives there with her husband, and her son, Jack．Mr．Hill does not see his sister, or her family, from one year to the next, but he sends them Christmas cards, and he has not forgotten one of Jack's seventeen birthdays. Last week Mr．Hill had quite a surprise．He drove home from the bank at the usual time, driving neither too slowly nor too fast; he parked his car where he always parked it, out of the way of other cars, and he went inside to make his evening meal．Just then, there was a knock at the door．He opened the door, to find a policeman standing on the door-step. "What have I done wrong？" Mr．Hill asked himself．"Have I driven on the wrong side of the road？ Has there been some trouble at the bank？ Have I forgotten to pay an important bill？" "Hello, Uncle," said the policeman, "My name is Jack." Mr．Hill __. A．works in a bank by himself B．lives in a bank and works by himself C．lives by himself and works in a bank D．lives in a bank by himself

A.works in a bank by himself

B.lives in a bank and works by himself

C.lives by himself and works in a bank

D.lives in a bank by himself