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精品 Word 可修改 欢迎下载 精品 Word 可修改 欢迎下载 精品 Word 可修改 欢迎下载 题型组合训练4 阅读理解 短文改错 (建议用时：25分钟；实际用时：　　分钟) 阅读理解 Encouraging children to use gestures as they think can help them come up with more creative ideas, according to new research. “Our findings show that children naturally gesture when they think of unusual ways to use everyday items，” says psychological scientist Elizabeth Kirk. “When we then asked children to move their hands, they were able to come up with even more creative ideas. ” “Gesturing may allow us to explore the properties(特性)of the items—for example, how the item could be held, its size, its shape, etc.—and doing so can help us come up with ideas for creative uses，” Kirk explains. In their first study, the researchers compared the creativity of children who spontaneously (自发地) gestured with those who either did not or could not gesture. A total of 78 children, aged 9－11, saw a series of images of ordinary items, such as a newspaper, a tin can, and a kettle. The researchers asked the children to look at each image and list as many uses as they could think of. A group of participants completed the task twice—on one version of the task, they wore mittens(连指手套)that limited their ability to gesture. Restricting childrens ability to gesture did not affect their ability to come up with creative uses for the objects; Children who were free to gesture produced about the same number of ideas as those who wore the mittens and could not gesture. In a second experiment, 54 children completed the same alternative－uses task. In some cases, children gestured normally; in other cases, the researchers encouraged the children to “use your hands to show me how you could use the object in different ways.” The encouragement worked: Children who were specifically encouraged to gesture produced a greater number of creative uses for the objects than did the children who were not given any special instruction. “Our findings add to the growing body of evidence showing th