visual and musical styles together"可知，导演擅长把视觉和音乐相结合，而最后一段则是举例子说明，故选C。

　　B

　　Today our guest Ms. Ahern­Dodson will continue our series of expert suggestions for academic writing. She starts a conversation with both students and professors planning to write a paper or an essay. She asks about their earlier writing experiences. Were they negative or positive?

　　She says that you are not alone if you have had problems with your writing. "Writing is hard. All writers struggle at some point. And even if writing has come easily to you, at some point in your work as a student, eventually you're going to hit a roadblock. So part of what I like to get folks thinking about is - besides writing is hard for everybody - to really take a moment to think about their past writing experiences. And when the writing was going well, what happened? When the writing wasn't going well, what happened？" She says most people's negative writing experiences happened because a very specific formula was required for a paper including an exact length.

　　"And so they primarily focus on and worry about what the final product has to look like, like how many pages for a research essay, whether it is in the second or third language, whether it gets communicated in the right language. So focusing on the end makes it really hard to get started."

　　"Another problem can arise when the need to do well on a paper is extremely important. Like a timed essay exam, or a college application essay, or a research paper that is at the end of the semester, it's tied to the entire grade for the class. So worrying about what will happen if they don't do well - get bad grades and don't get into college - creates, of course, significant anxiety. And that can make it harder to get the writing done."

　　Then she and the people she's helping move to more positive projects. She says usually when writing comes easily, the writers feel they have something important to say.

　　5．Which of the following is the closest in the meaning of "formula" in the passage?

　　A．Style.　　　　　　　 　B．Pattern.

　　C．Theme. D．Image.

　　解析：选B　词义猜测题。根据画线词后的"including an exact length"(包括确切的长度)，再结合选项可知，formula在此的词义与pattern"模式"最接近。

　　6．Who benefits most from this lecture after attending it?

A．Parents. B．Writers.