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【題目】 Anecdotal evidence has long held that creativity in artists and writers can be associated with living in foreign parts. Rudyard Kipling, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Gauguin, Samuel Beckett and others spent years living abroad. Now a pair of psychologist has proven that there is indeed a link.

As they report in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, William Maddux of INSEAD, a business school in Fontainebleau, France, and Adam Galinsky, of the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago, presented 155 American business students and 55 foreign ones studying in America with a test used by psychologists as a measure of creativity Given a candle, some matches and a box of drawing pins, the students were asked to attach the candle to a cardboard wall so that no wax would drip on the floor when the candle was lit. (The solution is to use the box as a candleholder and fix it to the wall with the pin.) They found 60% of the students who were either living abroad or had spent some time doing so, solved the problem, whereas only 42% of those who had not lived abroad did so.

A follow-up study with 72 Americans and 36 foreigners explored their creative negotiating skills. Pairs of students were asked to play the role of seller of a petrol station who then needed to get a job and a buyer who would need to hire staff to run the business. The two were likely to reach a deadlock because the buyer had been told he could not afford what the seller was told was his minimum price. Nevertheless, when both negotiators had lived abroad 70 % struck a deal in which the seller was offered a management job at the petrol station in return for a lower asking price. When neither of the negotiators had lived abroad, none was able to reach a deal.

Merely travelling abroad, however, was not enough. You do have to live there. Packing your beach towel and suntan lotion will not, by itself make you Hemingway.

【1】What is the purpose of mentioning the famous names in the opening paragraph?

A. To show the relationship between creativity and living abroad.

B. To indicate the link between artistic creation and life experience.

C. To emphasize how great these artists are.

D. To impress the importance of creativity.

【2】What can be inferred from the text?

A. William Maddux and Adam Galinsky have carefully designed the test.

B. Negotiators who had lived abroad are more flexible in negotiating.

C. American business students are less creative than those oversea students.

D. One's creativity is associated with the length one has spent abroad.

【3】What does the author mean in the last sentence of paragraph 4?

A. There exist sharp differences between travelling and living abroad.

B. You shouldn't lie on the beach when travelling.

C. Only real experience of living abroad can help drive creativity.

D. Living abroad is more meaningful than just travelling abroad.

【4】Where is the text most likely from?

A. A diary.B. A magazine.

C. A novel.D. A guidebook.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】B

【3】C

【4】B

【解析】

本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，介紹了研究發(fā)現(xiàn)國(guó)外生活可以提升創(chuàng)造力。

【1】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段中的“Anecdotal evidence has long held that creativity in artists and writers can be associated with living in foreign parts.”可知，長(zhǎng)期以來(lái)，坊間證據(jù)表明，藝術(shù)家和作家的創(chuàng)造力可能與生活在外國(guó)有關(guān)，接下來(lái)提到那些著名的人物就是為了證明這一點(diǎn)，即：展示創(chuàng)造力和海外生活之間的關(guān)系，故A項(xiàng)正確。

【2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“when both negotiators had lived abroad 70 % struck a deal in which the seller was offered a management job at the petrol station in return for a lower asking price.”可知，當(dāng)談判的雙方都在國(guó)外居住時(shí)，70%的人達(dá)成了協(xié)議，由此可知，在國(guó)外生活過(guò)的談判者在談判中更靈活，故B項(xiàng)正確。

【3】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第四段中的“Merely travelling abroad, however, was not enough. You do have to live there.”可知，然而，僅僅出國(guó)旅游是不夠的（不能提升創(chuàng)造力），你必須住在那里，由此可知作者說(shuō)這句話的意思是只有在國(guó)外居住才能提升創(chuàng)造力，故C項(xiàng)正確。

【4】推理判斷題。通讀全文可知，心理學(xué)家通過(guò)研究發(fā)現(xiàn)國(guó)外生活可以提升創(chuàng)造力，這屬于科學(xué)研究范疇，最有可能出現(xiàn)在雜志的科學(xué)研究版塊，故B項(xiàng)正確。

本篇第3題的難度較大，抓住上文介紹的創(chuàng)造力和海外生活之間的關(guān)系是關(guān)鍵——心理學(xué)家通過(guò)研究發(fā)現(xiàn)國(guó)外生活可以提升創(chuàng)造力，因此此處作者是說(shuō)僅僅出國(guó)旅游是不夠的，你必須在那里居住才能提升創(chuàng)造力。