Question

【題目】 Creativity is a learnable ability. But in my experience, we can create the conditions to develop it.【1】

* Obey your curiosity.

Steve Jobs claimed that creativity is just connecting things. I agree. 【2】 The best way to build a rich mental database that. will help you solve problems later is to honor passing curiosity. If something excites your brain, spend a moment on it. Follow paths that have no obvious purpose rather than satisfy a fantasy.

*【3】

Early in my career, Will Marre, founding president of Stephen Covey s training company, warned me to subscribe to a handful of business journals he listed, and added, “And every time you read one, be sure to read at least one article that 1s of. no interest to you.”I've been rewarded time and again for doing do. Many things that end up in my mind have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as chores and ended with an insight.【4】

* Have uncomfortable conversations.

Another great creative stimulus is to regularly engage in conversations with people from whom you might normally recoil( 畏縮). Three of the more unexpectedly fruitful conversations in my life were with a racist taxi driver in London, a drug dealer seatmate on a plane, and an extremist political advocate in Puerto Rico.【5】This discipline helped me find the psychological flexibility I needed in Canada.

A.Do things that don't interest you.

B.When you work hard, you can become creative.

C.Here are some of the ways I've learned to be more predictably creative.

D.Have a strange conversation with someone that will happen in the future.

E.If you want to be more creative, you will need to have more things to connect.

F.As a result of these conversations, I gained valuable perspectives from lives I :will never live.

G.Sometimes, we' call things boring simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】E

【3】A

【4】G

【5】F

【解析】

本文為一篇議論文。文章介紹了幾種可預見的增強創(chuàng)造力的方法。

【1】上文講述創(chuàng)造力是一種可以學習的能力。但以我的經(jīng)驗，我們可以創(chuàng)造條件來發(fā)展它。結(jié)合后文可知，文章介紹了幾種可預見的發(fā)展創(chuàng)造力的方法。C. Here are some of the ways I've learned to be more predictably creative.（以下是我學到的一些有預見性地創(chuàng)造的方法。）引出下文，符合此處語境。故選C項。

【2】根據(jù)前文Steve Jobs claimed that creativity is just connecting things. I agree.（史蒂夫喬布斯聲稱創(chuàng)造力只是連接事物。我同意。）E. If you want to be more creative, you will need to have more things to connect.（如果你想變得更有創(chuàng)造力，你需要有更多的東西來聯(lián)系。） connect與前文相呼應。故選E項。

【3】根據(jù)后文可知，在我職業(yè)生涯的早期，斯蒂芬柯維(Stephen Covey)培訓公司的創(chuàng)始總裁威爾馬爾(Will Marre)曾提醒我訂閱他列出的幾份商業(yè)期刊，并補充道:“每次你讀一份，一定要至少讀一篇你不感興趣的文章。”因此推斷（A. Do things that don't interest you.（做你不感興趣的事）為后文的總結(jié)，符合此處語境。故選A項。

【4】結(jié)合前文Many things that end up in my mind have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as chores and ended with an insight.( 許多事情最終在我腦海中浮現(xiàn)，它們來自于研討會、文章或在線視頻，開始只是一些瑣事，最后卻有了深刻的見解)G. Sometimes, we' call things boring simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.（有時，我們認為無聊，僅僅是因為它們在我們目前的認知之外。）解釋前文需要做一些不感興趣的事的原因。故選G項。

【5】根據(jù)前文Three of the more unexpectedly fruitful conversations in my life a racist taxi driver in London, a drug dealer seatmate on a plane, and an extremist political advocate in Puerto Rico.（在我的生活中，有三次出人意料的富有成效的談話是與倫敦的一名種族主義出租車司機、一名坐在飛機上的毒販和波多黎各的一名極端分子進行的。）F. As a result of these conversations, I gained valuable perspectives from lives I will never live.（通過這些對話，我從我永遠不可能接觸的生活中獲得了寶貴的觀點。）解釋上文，符合此處語境。故選F項。