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　　Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the question by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

　　How Writing Things Down Can Change Your Life

　　A) What do you write down? For most of us, writing consists of emails, task lists, and perhaps the odd work project. However, making time to write down certain things, such as our daily experiences, our goals, and our mental clutter can change the way we live our lives.

　　B) Here are six different ways that writing things down can change your life, and what you can do to get the most out of each.

　　C) It clears your mind for higher-level thinking.

　　D) You can clear your mind by writing things down in two different ways.

　　E) David Allen, productivity speaker and author of Getting Things Done, recommends doing what he calls a “core dump”. This involves writing down every task, activity, and project you need to address. This could range from picking up milk on the way home, to a multi-person project at work. Writing down every “to-do” item you can think of clears space in your head for more important topics.

　　F) You can also use a technique called “morning pages”, which was pioneered by Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way. Morning pages involves completing three pages (around 750 words) of stream-of-consciousness writing. Through doing this first thing each morning, you clear your head in preparation for the day’s most important thinking.

　　G) It helps you process your emotions.

　　H) Writing down what’s on our mind is a great way to work through inner conflict or process your feelings around a particular situation. It’s similar to talking a situation through with a friend, except it’s a useful way of strengthening your self-soothing abilities and enhancing your self-knowledge.

　　I) It gives you a record of the past.

　　J) If you keep a journal and regularly write down your thoughts and feelings, you’ll soon have a record of your experiences that you might otherwise have forgotten.

　　K) Reading back through this record is not just fascinating—it also provides a valuable insight into your thought process and emotional life. You can savor moments that you could have potentially forgotten and increase your levels of gratitude.

　　L) Keeping a journal can also enhance your levels of self-trust. When you can look back and see how successfully you’ve traversed and dealt with important decisions and tricky situations in the past, you’ll feel more confident in your ability to do so in the future.

　　M) You gain a sense of achievement.

　　N) Writing things down can foster a sense of achievement and progress, expanding our possibilities and increasing our productivity.

　　O) If we journal, it’s incredibly satisfying to fill up one or more journals with our thoughts and feelings. Many people harbor dreams of writing a book, but balk at the reality of how long it takes. When you finish a journal, you’ll realize that you have written a book. This opens up a new sense of possibilities, not just in writing but in other areas of our lives, too.

　　P) Equally, if we write down everything we need to do in a particular day or week, we gain an additional sense of satisfaction when, having completed the task, we can cross the item off our list. Feeling productive enhances our productivity, creating a virtuous cycle.

　　Q) It helps you think big.

　　R) Writing things down gives you space to think big and aim high. No matter what’s going on in our outside world, when we write things down, we enter a world of possibility.

　　S) Doing this helps us stay motivated, and it reduces the chance that we fall prey to self-limiting beliefs. (Even if we do, we can keep writing things down to process our feelings!)

　　T) When we write things down, we have a chance to explore dreams and ambitions that we might not feel safe revealing to anyone else yet. We also have a space to keep track of all our ideas and desires so we can return to them later.

　　U) It makes you more committed.

　　V) As well as offering a space for exploring possibilities, writing our goals and ambitions down makes it more likely that we’ll achieve them.

　　W) As with any goals, they are most effective if they are SMART: specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, and timed. These are all variables we can work out and commit to through writing.

　　X) Writing down our goals is the first step towards making them a reality. It can also help us stay accountable. When you’ve outlined your SMART goal in writing, display it somewhere you can see for an extra shot of motivation.

　　Y) How do you use writing to change your life? Leave a comment and let us know.

　　注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。

　　46. As for most people, writing includes emails, task lists, and perhaps the odd work plan.

　　47. A “core dump” involves writing down every task, activity, and project you need to address and could range from picking up milk on the way home, to a multi-person project at work.

　　48. The method, which was pioneered by Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way involves completing three pages (around 750 words) of stream-of-consciousness writing.

　　49. Writing things down helps you process your emotions.

　　50. Keep a journal and regularly write down your thoughts and feelings can help remember the experiences that you might have forgotten.

　　51. Keep a journal can also strengthen your self-confidence of your ability to do so in the future.

　　52. Lots of people have dreams of writing a book, but shy away from the reality of how long it takes.

　　53. Whatever happens in our outside world, when we write things down, we enter a world of possibility.

　　54. Through writing people can work out all the variables, if they are specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, and timed.

　　55. Writing down our goals can also help us stay accountable.

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　　解題攻略：

　　首先提醒考生在看到這一長篇的文章之后，千萬不要被它“紙老虎”的外形震懾住，要用心理暗示的方法讓自己放松心態，耐心的讀完全文。文章標題是全文的核心所在，一定不能忽略。題設即題眼，通讀全文之前，最好先閱讀一遍題設，注意其中的關鍵信息。在弄清文章標題與題設信息的前提下，快速瀏覽各段落，把握各段大意，尤其要留意題設中出現過的信息。這是對新題型的整體把握。

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