2024届高考英语复习读后续写：丢手绢 讲义+课件

续写练习：丢手绢 一、题目 I’ve spent my adult life as a college professor teaching people how to think more creatively and use more of their brainpower. Interestingly, this lifetime passion was awakened by a casual contest when I was a child. At a family picnic for employees of the company where my father worked, they held a handkerchief-throwing contest for the children. I was 13, full of enthusiasm and the spirit of competition, so I threw myself into the contest, which I realize now was not meant to demonstrate any real skill, but simply for laughs. But it sparked my love of thinking outside the box. The emcee (主持人) gave each child a cloth handkerchief and told us the winner would be the one who threw it the farthest. The first throwers, the little ones, took mighty wind-ups, but when the cloth left their hands, it opened and fluttered to the ground a few inches in front of them. The next kids threw harder and harder, but with no better results. The crowd roared with laughter, and being 13, I didn’t like adults laughing at us. The older the children, the more the crowd laughed at the results. It was obvious that using the same technique would not work. Suppose I tied a rock inside the handkerchief? No, it was “throw a handkerchief,” not a rock and a handkerchief. When they inspected it, I’d be disqualified. If I knew anything about adults, it was that they lived by rules. And they loved to seize a child who broke them. So it irritated me to see the kids throwing harder, but still without better results. The secret was not to throw harder but to keep the cloth from opening. Suppose I hid a rock in the cloth without tying it. The rock would drive the cloth at least farther than the others, and when they separated, people might not notice a small rock landing in the grass. I had a good chance of getting away with it, but I didn’t want to win by cheating. What I really wanted to do was show them that a kid could beat them at their own game. I had to make the handkerchief fly l