Time for a Brainstorm

A  brainstorm is a session where a small group of people come together to solve a problem．People voice spontaneous ideas, sometimes just shouting , and a note-taker writes them all down． 1.．By getting different ideas out there, ideas are said to bounce off each other and even can help solve the problem at hand．Brainstorming is often a group exercise but individuals can also conduct personal brainstorms．

2.He defined it as using the brain to storm a creative problem and do so in commando (突擊隊）fashion，with each stormer attacking the same objective．According to him,, it was easier to tone down a wild idea than think up a new one．He placed importance on the collection of as many ideas as possible and dismissed scientific thinking．

Brainstorming has become one of the most popular ways to solve problems and hold discussion in schools and businesses．Many students brainstorm for a group assignment or even for a personal essay． Sarah Grace, 24, is an Australian marketing analyst and uses brainstorming during all her creative duties． She thinks brainstorming is the best way to work as a team．The sessions get everyone on the same page，everyone moving together and with a clear understanding about the foundations of an event or idea．3.．

However, a big problem with brainstorming is creating a mess that leads people further away from a solution．4. If you don’t have a strong moderator or leader of the brainstorm, can go really off track，and people just start discussing something totally different． Brainstorming can sometimes confuse the human brain． 5. If you brainstorm too much and your page is filled up with all the messy links, you can paint yourself into a bit of comer and get trapped with ideas． You need to move past brainstorming as soon as you have something workable．

A．The ideas can be smart，strange or crazy．

B．It is caused by a lack of direction from a leader．

C．Brainstorming really helps her organize her thoughts．

D．Brainstorming really is the best way to build team spirit．

E．It can open too many doors and not suggest a clear direction．

F．Brainstorms were popularized in the 1940s by American advertising boss Alex Osborn．．

G．They can be words, phrases, paragraphs and anything that can help answer the question．

練習(xí)冊系列答案
相關(guān)習(xí)題

科目：高中英語 來源：吉林省長春市2018屆高三一�？荚囉⒄Z試卷 題型：書面表達(dá)

假設(shè)你是李華，校學(xué)坐會主席，想邀請外教Henry先生一起參加學(xué)校舉辦的中秋節(jié)晚會。請給他寫封郵件，內(nèi)容包括：

1.介紹寫郵件的目的； 2.晚會時間、地點：9月30日晚6點、學(xué)校報告廳：

3.晚會內(nèi)容：同學(xué)們表演節(jié)目、吃月餅、賞月。

注意：1.詞數(shù)100左右；2.可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫；3.開頭與結(jié)尾己給出，不計入總詞數(shù)。

Dear Mr. Henry,

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：廣東省化州市2015-2016學(xué)年高一上學(xué)期期中考試英語試卷 題型：單詞拼寫

1.I’m __________ (喜愛的) of English and do well in speaking and writing.

2.We should develop a good __________ (態(tài)度)toward life.

3.Seeing their daughter and dog coming back, the parents __________ (爆發(fā))into tears of relief.

4.To see policemen with guns in the airport for the first time was __________ (恐懼的).

5.You had better not shut yourself in and you should have a more __________ (積極的) life.

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：新人教版2017-2018學(xué)年高二必修5英語：Unit 2同步練習(xí) 題型：閱讀理解

The “Give It Up for Earth Day” encourages people to commit to giving up actions that are harmful to the environment, such as using poisonous cleaners.

Throughout the month of April, Canadians are being asked to “Give It Up for Earth Day！” Earth Day has been celebrated every year on April 22 since 1970. Earth Day Canada president Jed Goldberg says that as people become more environmentally aware, they want to find ways to reduce their environmental influence, not just celebrate one special event.

“Earth Day is a great launching_pad for thinking about environmental action every day，” said Goldberg. “Choosing healthier options, even for the short term, can lead to thinking about the influence of our decisions for a lifetime.”

That's the reason behind the “Give It Up for Earth Day” campaign. It's designed to encourage healthy habits that benefit people and the planet. It challenges everyone to help create a healthier world by making changes in their daily routine.

“We wanted to plan an actiontargeted campaign that will give people a chance to act on their concern for the environment in a positive way，” said Goldberg.

The campaign has identified four daily actions that can add up to huge environmental savings. They include pledging (保證) to turn off the TV, give up the use of poisonous cleaners, reduce consumption of consumer products and cut out meat.

At the end of April, all of the pledges will be recorded and converted (轉(zhuǎn)化) into the number of TV hours not watched, dollars not spent on unnecessary items, electricity saved, greenhouse gas emissions (排放) avoided by cutting out meat, and poisonous chemicals produced from homes and landfills.

“What we're trying to achieve this year for Earth Day is to give people a chance to do something that is meaningful and measurable，” said Goldberg.

1.The aim of the campaign mentioned in the passage is to ________.

A. enable people to save more money for future use

B. help people develop environmentally friendly habits

C. prevent people from making changes in their daily routine

D. warn people against reducing consumption of consumer products

2.The underlined word “l(fā)aunching pad” (in Paragraph 3) probably means “________”．

A. starting point B. finishing line

C. exchanging stage D. reforming stage

3.We can conclude from the passage that ________.

A. Earth Day was first celebrated over half a century ago

B. short term decisions will by no means influence our lives

C. Earth Day Canada is actually an everyday environmental action

D. daily actions must be measured to benefit the environment

4.Which disagrees with the spirit of “Give It Up for Earth Day”？

A. Switching off TV.

B. Riding bikes.

C. Using poisonous cleaners.

D. Saving electricity.

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：黑龍江省雙鴨山市2018屆高三9月第一次月考英語試卷 題型：短文改錯

假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請你修改你同學(xué)寫的以下作文。文中共有10處語言錯誤，每句中最多有兩處。錯誤涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（∧）,并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1. 每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2. 只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計分。

Harmony is very important to our society. All of us are looking forward to live in a harmonious society. As students, I thought we should first keep our dormitories with harmony. For one thing, it can create a good environment for my studies and life. For other, it can help us grow healthily. Unfortunately, there are some way to make our dormitories harmonious. Firstly, we should learn to understand each other and solve everything in the peace. Secondly, we should try to get rid our own bad habits. Lastly, we should share or get on with each other.

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：新人教版2017-2018學(xué)年高二必修5英語： Unit 2 單元綜合測評 題型：書面表達(dá)

假如你是青島某旅游公司的導(dǎo)游，你負(fù)責(zé)接待一個來自英國的旅游團(tuán)，請你寫一篇導(dǎo)游詞，簡要介紹一下你所在的城市。內(nèi)容要點如下：

1．位于山東省東部。

2．以藍(lán)色的大海、美麗的海濱而聞名，是避暑勝地。

3．每年夏天都有來自全國和世界各地的成千上萬的人們到這里沿海漫步、游泳、購物、觀賞秀麗景色。

詞數(shù)：100左右。開頭已給出，不計入總詞數(shù)。

Ladies and gentlemen，

Welcome to Qingdao.I'm very delighted to be your guide here.I'd

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：新人教版2017-2018學(xué)年高二必修5英語： Unit 2 單元綜合測評 題型：閱讀理解

Without proper planning，tourism can cause problems.For example，too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the inhabitants of a country.If tourists create too much traffic，the inhabitants become annoyed and unhappy.They began to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely.They forget how much tourism can help the country's economy.It is important to think about the people of a destination country and how tourism affects them.Tourism should help a country keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists.Tourism should also advance the wealth and happiness of local inhabitants.

Too much tourism can be a problem.If tourism grows too quickly，people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry.This means that other parts of the country's economy can suffer.

On the other hand，if there is not enough tourism，people can lose jobs.Business can also lose money.It costs a great deal of money to build large hotels，airports，air terminals，first?class roads，and other support facilities needed by tourist attractions.For example，a major international class tourism hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build.If this room is not used most of the time，the owner of the hotel lose money.

Building a hotel is just a beginning.There must be many support facilities as well，including roads to get to the hotel，electricity，sewers to handle waste，and water.All of these support facilities cost money.If they are not used because there are not enough tourists，jobs and money are lost.

1.Which of the following do you think has been discussed in the part before this selection?

A. It is extremely important to develop tourism.

B. Building roads and hotel is essential.

C. Support facilities are highly necessary.

D. Planning is of great importance to tourism.

2.Too much tourism can cause all these problems EXCEPT ．

A. a bad effect on other industries

B. a change of tourists' customs

C. over?crowdedness of places of interest

D. pressure on traffic

3.It can be inferred from the text that ．

A. the author doesn't like tourism developing so fast

B. local people will benefit from tourist attractions

C. other parts of a country's economy won't benefit from tourism much

D. we can't build too many support facilities

4.The author thinks it is good for local people to know that tourism will ．

A. waste a lot of money

B. weaken their economy

C. help establish their customs

D. help improve their life

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：云南省玉溪市2018屆高三上學(xué)期第二次月考英語試卷 題型：閱讀理解

A gunman killed eight people at a mall in Omaha this afternoon and then killed himself, setting off panic among holiday shoppers, the police said.

“The person who we believe to be the shooter has died from self-inflicted(自殘式的) gunshot wounds,” Sergeant Teresa Negron of the Omaha Police Department said at televised news. “We have been able to clear the mall,” she said. “We don't believe we have any other shooters.” The police said that at least five other people had been injured in the shootings.

She did not give the shooter's identity. “We are still conducting the investigation,” Sergeant Negron said, adding that the city’s mayor, who was out of town, was on his way back to Omaha.

She said the police received a 911 call from someone inside the Westroads Mall on the west side of Omaha, and shots could be heard in the background. The first police officers arrived at the mall six minutes after the first call, she said but by then the shootings were over.

It is reported that the gunman left a suicide note that was found at his home by relatives. A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity(匿名) said the note indicated that the gunman wanted to “go out in style.”

The shootings broke the usually ordinary routine of holiday shopping. The gunman was said by some witnesses to have fired about 20 shots into a crowd. Some customers and workers ran screaming from the mall, while others dived into dressing rooms to hide from the shooter.

Shoppers and store workers were trapped inside the mall, which has roughly 135 stores. Others streamed out of mall exits with their hands raised. Our president was in Omaha this morning to deliver a speech, but he had left the city by the time the shootings took place.

1.Where can we probably read this article?

A. A travel magazine.

B. A daily newspaper.

C. A story book.

D. A research report.

2.What do the underlined words "go out in style" probably mean?

A. To go out of the mall in particular clothes.

B. To walk in the mall with oneself focused on.

C. To stop his life in an impressive way.

D. To go to a social event by fashionable means.

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Nobody knows why the shooter did so and nothing was found at his home.

B. The city’s mayor went to the site when the shooting took place.

C. Police arrived at the mall before the shooting was over and rescued customers.

D. The official who showed what the note meant wanted to keep himself from being known to the public.

4.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A. President Happened to Escape a Shot

B. Shoppers in Great Panic before the Holiday

C. Shooter Found Dead in a Mall on the west of Omaha

D. Gunman Killed 8 People, Then Himself at a Mall in Omaha

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：河南省新鄉(xiāng)市2018屆高三（衛(wèi)星班）上學(xué)期第一次月考英語試卷 題型：完形填空

As a child, I started learning to play to piano, my favorite musical _____ , but I was forced to give up when I started my middle school _______I could concentrate more on my studies.

It’s one of my biggest ______ to stop practicing the piano when I recall sadly today. During the following years, I kept telling my piano teacher that I would _____. However, I didn’t keep my promise because I was ______ with my study. _____ I lost touch with my teacher. Some years later, my teacher died. I was very sad because I lost such a good teacher. She was a very warm and gentle person. It hurts me to think she may have been ______ that I never returned. I haven’t taken lessons since then but to be honest, I ______ to. Sitting at the piano, I couldn’t help recalling many ______—times of my practising at home and playing before my teacher and one time my teacher ______ me after I played entire pieces of music wrong in front of her colleagues. I was so ______ that I could hardly say anything. But her ____ helped ease my shame. These memories, ______, good or bad, never caused my ______ for playing the piano again.

This thought then led me to think that ____ is like music, and that we all try to play different   __ in the instrument of our life. Sometimes the pitch(音高) is _____ when we play it well, but sometimes we are out of tone. However, we all continue to create our own _____ style of music. No matter what style our music is, it is ______ that we sing the songs of joy, quietness and love. Though I may never make it back to piano lessons, it doesn’t _____ that I’ve stopped making music.

1.A. instrument B. performance C. room D. stage

2.A. because B. so that C. now that D. for

3.A. successes B. regrets C. decisions D. hobbies

4.A. play B. graduate C. leave D. return

5.A. occupied B. angry C. satisfied D. patient

6.A. Actually B. Constantly C. Suddenly D. Gradually

7.A. astonished B. glad C. disappointed D. amazed

8.A. liked B. needed C. wanted D. decided

9.A. dreams B. expressions C. words D. memories

10.A. instructed B. hurt C. punished D. respected

11.A. frightened B. moved C. embarrassed D. excited

12.A. happiness B. satisfaction C. comfort D. sigh

13.A. instead B. meanwhile C. therefore D. however

14.A. hope B. courage C. feeling D. effort

15.A. life B. learning C. attitude D. enjoyment

16.A. cards B. sports C. roles D. games

17.A. hard B. wonderful C. surprising D. complex

18.A. unique B. boring C. common D. similar

19.A. necessary B. strange C. possible D. important

20.A. matter B. mean C. report D. appear

查看答案和解析>>

同步練習(xí)冊答案