主题：[CET-4][2007.6阅读60题]对自由写作的解释

Passage One

I’ve been writing for most of my life. The book Writing Without Teachers introduced me to one distinction and one practice that has helped my writing processes tremendously. The distinction is between the creative mind and the critical mind. While you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they cannot work in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so.

Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest barrier to writing that most of us encounter. If you are listening to that 5th grade English teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to capture a fleeting (稍纵即逝的) thought, the thought will die. If you capture the fleeting thought and simply share it with the world in raw form, no one is likely to understand. You must learn to create first and then criticize if you want to make writing the tool for thinking that it is.

The practice that can help you past your learned bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what Elbow calls “free writing.” In free writing, the objective is to get words down on paper non-stop, usually for 15-20 minutes. No stopping, no going back, no criticizing. The goal is to get the words flowing. As the words begin to flow, the ideas will come from the shadows and let themselves be captured on your notepad or your screen.

Now you have raw materials that you can begin to work with using the critical mind that you’ve persuaded to sit on the side and watch quietly. Most likely, you will believe that this will take more time than you actually have and you will end up staring blankly at the pages as the deadline draws near.

Instead of staring at a blank start filling it with words no matter how bad. Halfway through you available time, stop and rework your raw writing into something closer to finished product. Move back and forth until you run out of time and  the final result will most likely be far better than your current practices.

全文讲述的是写作中遇到的两个问题，一是创造性思维和批判性思维的差异（前两段），二是克服边写作边修改的毛病（后三段）。本题考查的是后者。

题目问作家们的“自由写作”遇到的共同问题是什么。分析后三段，第一段阐述了自由写作的概念，别无其他；第二段指出了自由写作会遇到的问题；第三段是提出解决问题的方法。

选项A讲的是创造性思维，与自由写作相去甚远。

B是说先期的自由写作完成后，后期用来修改的时间过多。看倒数第二段，Most likely, you will believe that this will take more time than you actually have and you will end up staring blankly at the pages as the deadline draws near.这里是说修改的时间会超出你实际拥有的时间，在截稿日期到来前你会干看文稿、无从下笔。而most likely则指出这种情况发生的几率很高，符合题目中“common”的要求。

C在讲批判，这同样是前两段所论述的内容。

D讲自由写作不能帮助作家清楚地思考。文中没有提到这一点。

B最为合理。