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Text Study Notes to the Text Words and Expressions Idea Sharing Writing

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Understanding Structure Analysis Summary Reproduction

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Text Study—Understanding

I. UnderstandingIn text A, the author argues that inspirations come from the unconscious. To make his argument convincing, he cited several examples.Read through the text, and fill in the blanks with the missing information.

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Part One (Paras.1–3) : IntroductionAccording to the author, good ideas come from __________________, a ______________ term the unconscious psychological used to describe ________________ mental processes that remain unknown to the individual. Many great creative personalities in different field experienced ___________________________ the sudden arrival of a new idea in an intensified form.

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Part Two (Paras.4–6) : Examples of how bright ideas come from the unconsciousExample 1composer Richard Wagner, the great German _________, had been occupied with the idea of composing the opening to ―Rhinegold‖ for several years.

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When at last the orchestral opening, for which his unconscious mind had been seeking for so long, ____________ took shape within him, his _________ conscious mind at the moment of creation knew ________ nothing of the actual process by which the solution was found. A new idea may ______into the conscious mind. flash

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Example 2 The discovery of Fuchsian Functions by Henri Poincare shows that the _________ conscious mind may _______ observe the ___________ unconscious mind at work.

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Example 3 in a dream that Descartes, the famous It was _________ French philosopher, discovered the key point in philosophy —cogito ergo sum, which his __________ means ___________________ I think; therefore, I exist in English.

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Part Three (Para.7) : ConclusionThe unconscious is the ________ source of the instinctive thinking and it is __________ responsible for organized concepts. new _________

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Text Study—Structure Analysis

II. Structure Analysis1. Structure Analysis of Section A:Subject:________________________________ Inspirations come from the unconscious.

Example 1 Richard Wagner

Example 2 Henri Poincare

Example 3 Descartes

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2. The way to develop paragraphs:contrast Using comparison or contrast is a common way in writing paragraphs. The phrases like ―as a contrast‖, ― by/in contrast‖, ―by/in comparison‖ , ―on the contrary‖, ―while‖, ―however‖, ―nevertheless‖ or ―unlike‖ are often used to make the paragraphs coherent and smooth.

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Analyze how contrast is used by the author to describe the forming of Wagner’s and Henri Poincar’s bright ideas.

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Analysis

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The subject: A story about Richard Wagner, a composer.

The subject:A story about Henri Poincare as a contrast to that of Wagner.

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Para. 4

Para. 5

The process of forming big ideas: … could not sleep… … at last the miracle happened…

The process of forming big ideas: … but he arrived at no result… … contrary to his… … many ideas…

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Para. 4 The result: The conscious mind knew nothing of the actual processes by which the solution was found.

Para. 5 The result: The conscious mind observed the new combinations being formed in the unconscious.

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Words and Expressions—Word Using

Language Points

1. flash v. ① (of an idea) come suddenly ② to move very fast; to pass suddenlye.g. These lines from Shakespeare just flashed into my mind. 我突然记起来莎士比亚的这几行诗句。 汽车飞驰而过，我根本看不清车牌号。 The car flashed by so quickly that I could not see the plate number.