题目内容：

A strong imagination does children a lot of good. The following are 5 benefits of encouraging children’s imagination.

1. As children play different roles, they explore relationships between family members, friends and co-workers and learn more about them. For example, playing a doctor, they imagine how doctors care for their patients; playing house, they learn more about how parents feel about their children.

Build self-confidence. Young children have very little control over their lives. Imagining oneself as a builder of tall buildings or a superhero defending the planet is giving power to a child.  2.

Help intellectual（智力的）growth. 3. Children who can see a king’s castle in a mound（堆）of sand are learning to think in an abstract（抽象的）way. This skill is important in school.

4.  Kids who play with their friends do a lot of talking. This helps increase their vocabulary, improve sentence structure and communication skills.

Work out fears.   5. When children role-play about the big, bad monster under the bed, they gain a sense of control over him and he doesn’t seem so big or so bad.

A. Develop social skills.

B. Practice language skills.

C. Be willing to share.

D. It helps them develop confidence in their abilities.

E. Imagination can help children help each other.

F. Using the imagination is the beginning of abstract thought.

G. Playing roles can help children work out their fears and worries.