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Most of us would like to be both (1) and creative. Why was Thomas Edison able to invent so many things Was he simply more intelligent than most people Did he spend long hours toiling away in private Surprisingly, when Edison was a young boy, his teacher told him he was too (2) to learn anything. Other famous people whose creative genius went (3) when they were young include Walt Disney, who was fired from a newspaper job because he did not have any good ideas and Enrico Caruso, whose music teacher told him that his (4) was terrible.

Disney, Edison and Caruso were intelligent and creative men; (5) , experts on creativity believe that intelligence is not the same as creativity. Creativity is the ability to think about something in new and unusual ways, and to (6) out unique solutions to problems. When creative people are asked what enables them to solve problems in new ways, they say that the ability to find affinities between (7) unrelated elements plays a key role. They also say that they have the time and independence in a(an) (8) setting to (9) a wide range of possible solutions to a problem.

How ply is creativity (10) to intelligence (11) most creative people are quite intelligent, the (12) is not necessarily true. Many highly intelligent people (13) measured by IQ tests) are not very creative.

Some experts remain skeptical that we will ever fully understand the creative process. Others believe that a psychology of creativity is within reach. Most experts agree, (14) , that the concept of creativity as (15) bubbling up from a magical (16) is a myth. Momentary (17) of insight, (18) by images, make up a (19) part of the creative ’process. At the heart of the creative process are ability and experience that (20) an individual’s effort, often over the course of a lifetime.

Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET Ⅰ.10()

A.seemingly

B.actually

C.logically

D.barely

答案

参考答案:A

解析:

空白前affinities意为“相似性,联系”,故此处语境意为:发现…没有联系的事物之间的相似性。可以看出,这里应该是说表面上没有联系的事物。故A项“seemingly(表面上地)”正确。actually实际上,事实上;logi-tally理论上,逻辑上;barely仅仅,刚刚,几乎不能,这三项放在此处逻辑不通。

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