Were you constantly bored as a child? Maybe that helped you to developyour ability to be creative. 

 Boredom can be a good thing for children, according to Dr Teresa Belton,researcher at the University of East Anglia ’s School of Education and LifelongLearning. After interviewing authors, artists and scientists in Britain, she’sreached the conclusion that cultural expectations that children should beconstantly active could block the development of their imagination. 

British actress and writer Meera Syal grew up in a small mining village withfew distractions. The researcher said:“Lack of things to do urged her to talk topeople she wouldn’t otherwise have engaged with and try activities she wouldn ’under other circumstances, have experienced, such as talking to elderly neighborsand learning to bake cakes.” 

Belton added: “Boredom made her write. Meera Syal kept a diary from ayoung age, filling it with observations, short stories, poems. ” 

The researcher didn’t ignore the old saying the devil finds work for idlehands, though. Belton pointed out that young people who don ’t have the interiorresources to deal with boredom creatively may end up smashing up bus sheltersor taking cars out for a joyride. 

How about watching TV and videos on the computer? The researcherbelieves that nothing replaces standing and staring at things and observing yoursurroundings. 

It’s the sort of thing thatstimulates the imagination, she said, while thescreen “tends to short circuit that process and the development of creativecapacity. ”Dr Belton concluded: “For the sake of creativity, perhaps we need to slowdown and stay offline from time to time. ” 

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For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic The Most Important Influence on Young Adults . You should write

about 120 words following the Chinese outline given below.

(1)有些人认为父母对年轻人的影响较大，也有些人认为朋友对年轻人的影响较大

(2)我的看法

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Mary was very fond of television, so when she met a young man who workedfor a television company, she was very interested and asked him a lot ofquestions. She discovered that he had also worked for a film company, 【66.so sheasked him whether there was any difference between film work and televisionwork .】 

“Well,” answered the young man, “there is one very big difference. 【67.Ifsomeone makes a mistake while a film is being made, it is possible to stop anddo the scene again.】 In fact, one can do it over and over again a lot of times.Mistakes waste time, money and film, but the audience who see the film when itis finished don ’t know that anything went wrong. In a live television show, onthe other hand, the audience can see any mistakes that are made. ” 

“I can tell you a story about that, 【68. One day, a live television show wasgoing on, and one of the actors was supposed to have been shot.】 He fell to theground, and the camera moved somewhere else to allow time for me to run outwith a bottle of tomato sauce to pour on to him to look like blood. Butunfortunately the camera turned back to him before I had finished, 【69.and thepeople saw me pouring the sauce on to the man. ”】 

“Oh, how terrible! ” Mary said. “And what did you do? ” 

“Well”, answered the young man, “our television director is a very strictman.【70.If anyone makes a mistake, he fires him at once.】 So I just had to pretendthat this was part of the story and eat the man. ” 

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I don ’t know why you ’re so concerned._________________ (这毕竟不是你的问题 ).

For such a big house the price is fairly low. But you’ve got to _________________ (考虑维修所需要的钱 ).

My parents taught me not to take what ’s not mine. I ’ve always tried to_________________ (教育我的子女同样的价值观 ).

I understand the two factors that contributed to my downfall: _________________ (缺乏职业目标和缺乏自信 ).