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1、江西南昌市南昌二中高二期末） Most of us marry creativity to our concept of self either were creative or we arent, without much of a middle ground. Im just not a creative person! a frustrated student might say in art class, while another might blame her talent at painting for her difficulties in math, giving a com

2、ment such as, m very right-brained.Dr. Pillay, a tech entrepreneur and an assistant professor at Harvard University, has been challenging these ideas. He believes that the key to unlocking your creative potential is to ignore the traditional advice that urges you to believe in yourself. In fact, you

3、 should do the opposite: Believe you are someone else.Dr. Pillay points to a 2016 study demonstrating the impact of stereotypes on ones behavior; The authors. educational psychologists Denis Dumas and Kevin Dunbar, divided their college student subjects into three groups, instructing the members of

4、one to think of themselves as romantic poets and the members of another to imagine they were serious librarians （the third group was the control）. The researchers then presented all the participants with ten ordinary objects, including a fork, a carrot, and a pair of pants, and asked them to come up

5、 with as many different uses as possible for each one. Those who were asked to imagine themselves as romantic poets came up with the widest range of ideas, whereas those in the serious-librarian group had the fewest. Meanwhile, the researchers found only small differences in students creativity leve

6、ls across academic majors.These results suggest that creativity is not a fixed individual characteristic but a malleable product of context and perspective, as long as he or she feels like a creative person. Dr. Pillay argues that, besides identifying yourself as creative, taking the bold, creative

7、step of imagining you are somebody else is even more powerful. So, wish you were more creative? Just pretend!1According to the passage， who is more likely to unlock his creative potential?AAn art major who always believes in himself.BA math major who has excellent academic performanceCA physics majo

8、r who likes to imagine himself as a poet.DA history major who works as a librarian on weekends.2What does the Study conducted by Denis Dumas and Kevin Dunbar focus on?AThe creativity of the college students.BThe stereotypes of the college students.CThe impact of stereotypes on ones behaviorDThe infl

9、uence of creativity on ones behavior.3The underlined word in the last paragraph probably means_?Astable Bsustainable Cpredicable Dchangeable4Dr Pillay may agree with the statement that_.Athere is no doubt that we are either creative or notBa student who doesnt do well in art class is not creativeCri

10、ght brain determines whether a person is creative or notDif we pretend to be creative， then we might be really creative B湖南师大附中高三月考） Some people get more unwilling to take risks as the years go by. Not Gail MacCallum, who at age 40 quit a secure job and left the city she had enjoyed her whole adult

11、life to step into the unknown.MacCallum spent her formative years in a farmhouse without electricity and enjoyed the freedom of the natural world. During her adult life, she moved through several jobs before finding her calling in book publishing and then magazines. One day she and her partner Ian C

12、onnellan were on a holiday on Hobart, enjoying the chance to get close to wildlife, when they ran into some friends- of-friends, who asked them to dinner. The next day, recalls MacCallum, “They said, We think you should buy our house.” With no intention of uprooting their lives she and Connellan tho

13、ught this was “entirely ridiculous, yet they got really excited talking about the possibilities such a move might present. “At last,” we said, “Lets give it a go.”They resigned from their jobs and moved to Hobart. Both of them are brave travelers who had spent time with scientists working in various

14、 remote spots around the world. They wondered if they could make a living by helping others to experience those unique places for themselves. Then came the new company Curious Traveler. “It works brilliantly. Scientists get helpers and funding. Guests get to see what scientists do and how the world

15、is changing because of it. They leave, excited and inspired,” MacCallum says.In two-and-a-half years, the pair still have to replenish their incomes with some writing and editing, but the business is growing and within five years they hope to be helping fund half a dozen research projects. It is a b

16、ig task. “Some days we think it would be great to turn it off,” MacCallum says, “but when we see the wonder on the face of a person who is experiencing somewhere like the Galapagos for the first time, we know we are living a wonderful life.”5What caused MacCallum and Connellan to give up their jobs?

17、AA casual offer from some friends-of-friends. BTheir childhood experiences with nature.CTheir boredom with their then jobs. DThe desire to protect the wildlife.6What does MacCallum and Connellans company do?AIt promotes tourism in remote places.BIt gets courageous travelers to explore the world.CIt

18、organizes trips to places of scientific research.DIt helps scientists find proper spots for research.7What mainly inspires MacCallum and Connellan to keep going?ATheir dream for a booming business. BThe financial gain from their work.CThe prospect of research programs. DThe satisfaction of their cus

19、tomers.8The underlined word “replenish in Paragraph 4 means _.Aconsume Bsupply Creduce Dcontrol C广东华南师大附中高三月考） Cigarette ends are everywhere-littering our streets and beaches-and for decades theyve been thought of as “unrecyclable”. But a New Jersey-based company, called Terracycle, has taken on the

20、 challenge, and has come up with a way to recycle millions of cigarette ends and turn them into industrial plastic products. Its aim is to recycle things that people normally consider impossible to reuse.Obviously it would be even better for the environment if everyone just stopped smoking but the s

21、tatistics show that although there has been an increase in anti-smoking ads and posters, between 2000 and 2014.global sales of cigarettes increased by 8 percent, and a whole lot of those cigarette ends ended up as trash: Since most of our litter eventually ends up in waterways, cigarette ends can su

22、rely pollute the surrounding environment. “It only takes a single cigarette end to pollute a liter of water,” Temacycles founder, Tom Swak, said. “Animals can also mistake cigarette ends littered for food.”So how do you go about turning all those poisonous ends into something useful? Terracycle does

23、 this by first breaking them down into separate parts. They mix the remaining materials, such as the tobacco and the paper, with other kinds of rubbish, and use it on non-agricultural land, such as golf courses. The filters （过滤嘴） are a little harder. To recycle these. Terracycle first makes them cle

24、an and cuts them into small pieces, and then combines them with other recycled materials, making them into liquid for industrial plastic products.Theyre now also expanding their recycling offerings to the rest of the 80 percent of household waste that currently cant be recycled, such as chocolate pa

25、ckaging, pens, and mobile phones. The goal is to use the latest research to find a way to stop so much waste ending up in landfills, and then get companies to provide money for the process. And now, it works well.“We havent found anything that we cant recycle,” communications director of Terracycle,

26、 Albe Zakes, said. “But with the amount and varieties of packaging and litter in the world, we are always looking for new waste streams to address.”9What does Terracycle intend to do?ASearch for recyclable materials for use.BDeal with as many cigarette ends as possible.CProduce new kinds of industri

27、al plastic products.DRecycle what used to be considered unrecyclable.10What does the underlined word “trash” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?ARubbish. BPoison. CDisaster. DRuin.11What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about?AThe effective use of cigarette ends.BThe process of recycling cigarette ends.CThe d

28、ifficulty in recycling cigarette ends.DThe reason for breaking down cigarette ends.12What do Albes words in the last paragraph imply?AThere is more and more waste to be recycled.BIt is difficult for Terracycle to recycle everything.CTerracycle is trying to meet the challenge of new waste.DTerracycle

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