Question

Drawing might help you think

When you're sitting in class, have you ever drawn pictures in the margins of your notebooks? If so, your teacher might have told you1.(stop). Many people think of doodling（涂）as a distraction（精神涣散）from more important things. But it might be just the opposite.

One study shows that doodling may help you remember things you hear. In 2009, researchers asked two groups of people to listen to a phone message. One group2. (encourage) to doodle, but the other was not. Neither group knew that it would be asked to remember information from the message. But the group that doodled remembered 29 percent more.

Other people3.(suggest) other uses for drawing. Jesse Prinz, a professor who studies doodling, says it can help you think creatively. 4.(walk) away from a problem to draw might actually help you solve it. When you come back, you5.(have) a fresh perspective and figure out an answer more quickly.

Two years ago, an author named Sunni Brown6.(write) a book on doodling. She argues that doodling is a tool that can help people think. She admits that people see doodling as doing nothing, but she wants to change that. In fact, she runs a business that helps companies improve organization and planning doodling. Brown7.(believe) doodling is helpful because it incorporates（整合）many ways of learning. You learn in four ways: seeing, hearing, reading or writing, and through movement. The more ways you use, the8.(well) you learn. And when you doodle while you9.(listen) to a lecture, you use all four.

You might think that being good at10.(draw) is important for doodling. But if the point of doodling you think, then it doesn't matter what the picture looks like. Even if you're not an artist, doodling can help you. So next time you need help focusing, pick up a pen and doodle away!

Answer

1.to stop

2.was encouraged

3.have suggested

4.Walking

5.will have

6.wrote

7.believes

8.better

9.are listening

10.drawing

【解析】

本文是一篇说明文，文章主要介绍了涂鸦的作用。有人认为涂鸦会使人精神涣散，但另一部分人认为涂鸦会使人有创造性。教授Jesse Prinz在实验中证明了涂鸦的作用。Sunni Brown也写了一本关于涂鸦的书。在书中也介绍了涂鸦的益处。

1.

句意：如果是这样，你的老师可能会叫你停下来。tell sb. to do sth.“告诉某人去做某事”。故填to stop。

2.

句意：一组被鼓励涂鸦，而另一组则不允许涂鸦。因为这个实验是在2009年做的，因此用一般过去时；One group作本句主语，谓语动词encourage（鼓励）与之构成被动关系，所以此句需用一般过去时的被动语态，其结构为“was/were +动词的过去分词”。又因为主语One group为单数，be动词需用was，encourage的过去分词在词尾加-d即可。故填was encouraged。

3.

句意：其他人也建议了涂鸦的其他用途。根据下文“Jesse Prinz, a professor who studies doodling, says it can help you think creatively.”可知，研究涂鸦的教授Jesse Prinz说它可以帮助你创造性地思考。这说明了涂鸦的别的好处，是已经发生的事情。因此本题用现在完成时。结构为has/have+动词的过去分词。因为主语Other people为复数。故填have suggested。

4.

句意：把问题放一边而去画画，实际上可能会帮助你解决它。因此句没有连词，而might help已占本句谓语的位置，所以walk动词在此句只能作非谓语；walk away“离开”的逻辑主语是“你”，根据句意可知，“离开”的动作是“你”主动进行，所以此处需用动名词短语作主语，walk的动名词形式为walking，且此动名词位于句首应大写。故填Walking。

5.

句意：当你回来的时候，你会有一个全新的视角，更快地找到答案。因为When引导的时间状语从句遵循“主将从现”的规则，“When you come back”是一般现在时，那么主句用一般将来时，即“will+动词原形”。故填will have。

6.

句意：两年前，一位名叫Sunni Brown的作家写了一本关于涂鸦的书。因为是两年前写的书，所以时态用一般过去时，谓语动词write需变成其过去式wrote。故填wrote。

7.

句意：布朗认为涂鸦很有帮助，因为它包含了多种学习方式。由从句的谓语is可知，主句为一般现在时。Brown作主语，谓语用第三人称单数形式。故填believes。

8.

句意：使用的方式越多，学的就越好。根据本句句意和结构可知，本句使用比较级的搭配“the+比较级…，the+比较级”表示“越……，就越……”；由此搭配可知横线处需填比较级，well的比较级为better。故填better。

9.

句意：当你边听讲座边涂鸦时，这四个动作你会同时用到。我们知道由while引导的句子用现在进行时。其构成为“am / is / are + doing”；主语是you，be动词应用are，listen的现在分词形式直接在词尾加-ing即可。故填are listening。

10.

句意：你可能认为擅长画画对涂鸦很重要。根据be good at doing sth.“擅长做某事”可知，good at后接动名词，draw的动名词形式直接在其后接-ing即可。故填drawing。