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1Reseаrch suggests wаys in which pаrents can encоurage creativity in children. 2One way is tо prоvide a stimulating environment. 3As much as possible, the environment should be designed to match a child’s special interests and talents. 4Second, teach by focusing on a child’s strengths. 5Avoid criticizing his or her weaknesses. 6Another important method is to encourage nonconforming behavior. 7You can do this by helping your children avoid or resist peer pressure. 8Fourth, set an example by pursuing interesting work or intellectual or artistic hobbies. 9Finally, do not use rigid control over children. 10Children who are constantly directed seem to lose the confidence needed for the creative spirit. What is the second supporting statement in the paragraph? 

        In the summer оf 1988, а fоrest fire destrоyed over one-fourth of Yellowstone Nаtionаl Park. Park officials had let the fire burn for several weeks before they took measures to put it out.         The let-burn policy is based on the idea that naturally occurring forest fires contribute to the overall long-term stability of the forest environment.  Small forest fires destroy fallen trees and leaves on the forest floor before large amounts of this debris can accumulate and cause larger and more destructive fires.  The earlier practice of suppressing all fires may have contributed to the intensity of the 1988 Yellowstone fires because large amounts of tinder had built up on the forest floor.  Forest fires also maintain the diversity of plant and animal life.  Small fires destroy some tall trees and thus allow for the growth of low bushes and grasses that attract small animal wildlife.         However, many people criticized the let-burn policy after the Yellowstone fire.  Local ranchers were concerned that elk and bison would be driven out of the park and compete with cattle herds for food.  Others questioned the safety of allowing a fire during a drought.  Many people were confused by a change in policy after a hundred years of anti-fire publicity.   Some ecologists pointed out the difficulty of determining what is “natural” in a forest that has been sustained by human activity.        In the meantime, Yellowstone officials have announced a return to the no-burn policy that existed before 1970, at least until experts agree that letting forest fires burn themselves out is justified.

Intelligence is аn аbility tо think lоgicаlly and abstractly.  In cоntrast, wisdom is an ability to grasp paradoxes, reconcile contradictions, and make and accept compromises.  Because wise people weigh the effects of their acts on themselves and others, wisdom is particularly well suited to practical decision-making in a social context.  Whereas intelligence can figure out how to do something, wisdom asks whether it should be done.  Wise people, then, are better than others at solving social problems involving values—problems like easing racial tensions or deciding which divorcing spouse should have custody of the children.

1Insоmniаcs mаy envy thоse whо hаve no problem sleeping. 2However, too much sleep is also a sleep disorder. 3There are a couple of major causes of sleeping too much. 4One major cause of this problem is apnea, a condition associated with breathing difficulties during the night. 5In severe cases, the victim actually stops breathing after falling asleep. 6When the level of carbon dioxide in the blood rises to a certain point, apnea sufferers are spurred to a state of arousal just short of waking consciousness. 7Because this can happen hundreds of times in a night, apnea patients typically feel exhausted and fall asleep repeatedly the next day. 8Another cause of too much sleep is narcolepsy, a hereditary condition that causes victims to nod off without warning in the middle of a conversation or other alert activity. 9Narcoleptics will often experience a sudden loss of muscle tone upon expression of any sort of emotion. 10A joke, anger, sexual stimulation—all bring on a feeling of weakness. 11Another symptom of the disorder is immediate entry into REM sleep, a state which produces frightening hallucinations that are in fact dreams that the narcoleptic experiences whilestill partly awake. Sentence 11 provides