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【題目】 I always have these questions in my mind-how does anxiety influence how we think? What classroom environments are most helpful to learning? Most experts agree that having the right team of people to come up with ideas to argue for plays an important role to find out the answers.

However, how do we know who the right people are when making a team? From the classroom and the workplace, to the laboratory and the playing field, research shows that diverse groups of people often make better decisions.

Professor Scott Page believes different ways of thinking from a particular group produces something additional. When people with their own "tools" come together to work on difficult tasks, the results are powerful.

Groups with different genders(性別) also hold merit here. Christine Lagarde said that better decisions are made when women and men come together at the table, creating what she calls a "larger horizon". She mentioned that while women make up only 2% of bank CEOs worldwide, banks who count women among the top leadership are likely to have better economic outcomes( 結(jié)果).

In 2010, researchers examined the performance of about 700 people (both men and women), working in groups of two to five, solving both simple and difficult tasks. They discovered that the best predictor of performance wasn't the average intelligence of group members. Instead it was a collective measure of intelligence, which had much to do with the number of women in the group. As women are good at reading others' faces and making the best of different opinions, they help to bring out a more productive outcome.

Finally, it turns out that the size of the group matters, too. Smaller groups can actually be more creative. A new study from University of Chicago found that while bigger teams are important for advancing science, smaller groups help "break it down"-a key part of creativity.

In today's workforce, people come together to cooperate on tough tasks, being encouraged to look to each other. Brainstorming with others in small, diverse groups helps ideas to shine in our mind and, more often than not, leads to the solution. It's a research-driven model for how to develop our collective problem-solving abilities by having the right teams of people producing good ideas worth fighting for.

【1】The underlined word "diverse groups" in Paragraph 2 probably means "______".

A.groups in which people have a close relation

B.groups with people who like thinking and sharing

C.groups in which people are different from each other

D.groups with people who are good at solving problems

【2】What can we learn from the research in 2010?

A.Groups with both genders make teamwork more fruitful.

B.Women are better at reading and accepting others' minds.

C.The average intelligence of group members really matters.

D.Banks should depend more on women in decision-making.

【3】What does the writer mainly want to show us?

A.Women in a group influence the collective intelligence.

B.Different groups of people usually produce different ideas.

C.Diverse teams can be expected to work out better outcomes.

D.The size of the group is important in dealing with problems.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】A

【3】C

【解析】

短文大意：本文關(guān)注的是團(tuán)隊(duì)合作，研究表明，不同的人群往往會(huì)做出更好的決定，不同性別的群體也有自己的優(yōu)點(diǎn)。在當(dāng)今的勞動(dòng)大軍中，人們聚集在一起，共同完成艱巨的任務(wù)，相互鼓勵(lì)，相互尊重。在不同的小群體中與其他人進(jìn)行頭腦風(fēng)暴，有助于思想在我們的頭腦中閃耀，而且往往有助于解決問題。

【1】題意：在第2段下劃線的單詞“diverse groups”可能意味著“______”。考查詞義理解。根據(jù)上文“From the classroom and the workplace, to the laboratory and the playing field從教室和工作場(chǎng)所，到實(shí)驗(yàn)室和運(yùn)動(dòng)場(chǎng)”，可知是來自不同領(lǐng)域的多樣化團(tuán)隊(duì)，groups in which people are different from each other（成員各不相同的小組）符合題意，故選C。

【2】題意：我們能從2010年的研究中了解到什么？考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)They discovered that the best predictor of performance wasn't the average intelligence of group members． Instead it was a collective measure of intelligence，which had much to do with the number of women in the group． 他們發(fā)現(xiàn)，表現(xiàn)的最佳預(yù)測(cè)指標(biāo)不是小組成員的平均智力，而是一種集體的智力測(cè)量方法，這一方法有這與群體中女性的數(shù)量有很大關(guān)系，可以推斷出，男女都有的團(tuán)體使團(tuán)隊(duì)合作更有成效，故選A。

【3】題意：作者主要想告訴我們什么？主題歸納題。根據(jù)It's a research-driven model for how to develop our collective problem-solving abilities by having the right teams of people producing good ideas worth fighting for．這是一個(gè)研究驅(qū)動(dòng)的模式，用于培養(yǎng)我們集體解決問題的能力通過讓合適的團(tuán)隊(duì)產(chǎn)生值得為之奮斗的好點(diǎn)子．結(jié)合文章內(nèi)容可以推測(cè)，作者主要想給我們展示的是：可以期望不同的團(tuán)隊(duì)會(huì)產(chǎn)生更好的結(jié)果，故選C。