Worries of Writers It is true that good writers rewrite and rewrite and then rewrite some more. But in order to work up the d

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问题 Worries of Writers
It is true that good writers rewrite and rewrite and then rewrite some more. But in order to work up the desire to rewrite, it is important to learn to like what you write at the early stage.
I am surprised at the number of famous writers I know who say that they so dislike reading their own writing later that they even hate to look over the publishers’ opinions. One reason we may dislike reading our own work is that we’ re often disappointed that the rich ideas in our minds seem very thin and plain when first written down. Jerry Fodor and Steven Pinker suggest that this fact may be a result of how our minds work.
Different from popular belief, we do not usually think in the words and sentences of ordinary language but in symbols for ideas [ known as "mentalese" (心理语) ]. And writing our ideas down is an act of translation from that symbolic language. But while mentalese contains our thoughts in the form of a complex tapestry(织锦) , writing can only be composed one thread at a time. Therefore it should not be surprising that our first attempt at expressing ideas should look so simple. It is only by repeatedly rewriting that we produce new threads and connect them to get closer to the ideas formed in our minds.
When people write as if some strict critics (批评家) are looking over their shoulder, they are so worried about what this critic might say that they get stuck before they even start. Peter Elbow makes an excellent suggestion to deal with this problem. When writing we should have two different minds. At the first stage, we should see every idea, as well as the words we use to express it, as wonderful and worth putting down. It is only during rewrites that we should examine what we excitedly wrote in the first stage and check for weaknesses.
At the second stage, the writers should rewrite and put more new ideas into the writing.

选项 A、TRUE
B、FALSE
C、Not Given

答案B

解析题干要求判断在第二个阶段作家是否应该改写文章并在文章中加入更多新的想法。文章最后一句提到，在第二个阶段，“we should examine what we excitedly wrote in the first stage and check for weaknesses”，也就是说，我们应该检查第一阶段写的内容和错误的地方，而不用再加入更多新的想法，所以题干是错误的。

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