江苏高考英语百日训练之任务型阅读（98）含答案解析

江苏⾼考英语百⽇训练之任务型阅读（98）含答案解析
江苏⾼考英语百⽇训练之任务型阅读（98）含答案解析
【题⽂】
请认真阅读下⾯短⽂，并根据所读内容在⽂章后表格中的空格⾥填⼊⼀个最恰当的单词。

注意:每个空格只填1个单词。

Pretending you're someone else can make you creative
One great irony(讽刺) about our collective fascination with creativity is that we tend to frame it in uncreative ways. That is to say, most of us marry creativity to our concept of self: We are either “creative” people or we aren't，without much of a middle ground.
Pillay, a tech businessman and Harvard professor has spent a good part of his career destroying these ideas. Pillay believes that the key to unlocking your creative potential is to dismiss the conventional advice that urges you to “believe i n yourself”. In fact, you should do the exact opposite: believe you are someone else.
In a recent column for Harvard Business Review, Pillay pointed to a 2016 study showing the impact of stereotypes(刻板印象)on one's behavior. The authors, education psychologists Denis Dumas and Kevin Dunbar, divided their college-student subjects into three categories, instructing the members of on e group to think of themselves as “eccentric(古怪的) poets” and the members of another to imagine they were “rigid librarians”(people in the third category, the control group, were left alone for this part). The researchers then presented participants with 10 ordinary objects，including a fork, a carrot, and a pair of pants, and asked them to come up with as many different uses as possible for each one. Those who were asked to imagine themselves as “eccentric poets” came up with the widest range of ideas for th e objects, while those in the “rigid librarian”group had the fewest. Meanwhile, the researchers found only small differences in students' creativity level s across academic majors—in fact, the physics majors inhabiting(寄⽣) the personas(伪装的外表) of “eccentric poets” came up with more ideas than the art majors did.
These results, write Dumas and Dunbar, suggest that creativity is not an individual quality, but a “malleable(可塑的) product of context and perspective.” Everyone can be creative, as long as they feel like creative people.
Pillay's work takes this a step further: He argues that identifying yourself with creativity is less powerful than the creative act of imagining you're somebody else. This exercise, which he calls “psychological halloweenism”，refers to the conscious action of inhabiting another persona—an inner costuming of the self. It works because it is an act of “conscious unfocus”，a way of positively stimulating the default mode(默认模式) network, a collection of brain regions that spring into action when you're not focused on a specific task or thought.
Most of us spend too much time worrying about two things: How successful/unsuccessful we are, and how little we're focusing on the task at hand. The former feeds the latter—an unfocused person is an unsuccessful one, we believe. Thus, we force ourselves into quiet areas, buy noise-canceling headphones, and hate ourselves for taking breaks.
What makes Pillay's argument stand out is its healthy, forgiving realism: According to him, most people spend nearly half of their days in a state of “unfocus”. This doesn't make us lazy people—it makes us human. The idea behind psychological halloweenism is: What if we stopped judging ourselves for our mental down time, and instead started using it? Putting this new idea on daydreaming means addressing two problems at once: You're making yourself more creative, and you're giving yourself permission to do something you'd otherwise feel guilty about. Imagining yourself in a new situation, or an entirely new identity, never felt so productive.
Title: Pretending you're someone else can make you creative
【答案】71. fascinated/impressed 72. Contrary 73. worked/acted/served/functioned 74. given 75. creativity 76.
individual/personal 77. positively 78. subscribes 79. realistic/practical 80. forgive
【解析】
本⽂是⼀篇说明⽂，创造性是促进社会进步的重要品质，哈佛⼤学教授Pillay认为我们要摈弃传统观念，要把⾃⼰想象成别⼈。

以此促进⼈们的创造性品质。

【71题详解】
考查词性转换。

根据第⼀段第⼀句“One great irony about our collective fascination with creativity i s that we tend to frame it in uncreative ways.”可知关于创造性的具有讽刺性的是我们会⽤没有创造性的⽅法来限制创造性。

句中使⽤名词fascination，⽽表格⾥需要使⽤形容词短语be fascinated with the idea that 着迷于这样的想法。

所以要填fascinated/impressed。

【72题详解】
考查固定搭配。

根据第⼆段后两句“Pillay believes that the key to unlocking your creat ive potential is to dismiss the conventional advice that urges you to “believe in yourself”. In fact, you should do the exact opposite: believe you are someone else.”可知Pillay的观点与传统观点相反的，所以要填Contrary。

【73题详解】
考查同义转换。

根据第三段第⼆句“The authors, ….and the members of another to imagine they were “rigid librarians”(people in the third category, the control group, were left alone for this part).”可知第三⼩组的作⽤是控制，要使⽤固定搭配worked as / functioned as / acted as / served as，所以要填worked/acted/served/functioned。

【74题详解】
考查同义转换。

根据第三段中“The researchers then presented participants with 10 ordinary objects，including a fork, a carrot, and a pair of pants, and asked them to come up with as many different uses as possible for each one.”可知应该使⽤given与present 同义替换，所以要填given。

【75题详解】
考查原词重现。

根据第三段最后⼀句“Meanwhile, the researchers found only small differences in students' creativity levels across academic majors”可知学⽣的创造性与他们的专业不成⽐例。

所以要填creativity。

【76题详解】
考查原词重现。

根据第四段第⼀句“These results, write Dumas and Dunbar, suggest that creativity is not an individu al quality, but a “malleable(可塑的) product of context and perspective.”可知创造性并不是个体的品质。

所以要填
individual/personal。

【77题详解】
考查原词重现。

根据第五段最后⼀句“It works because …. a way of positively stimulating the default mode network, a collection of brain regions that spring in to action when you're not focused on a specific task or thought.” 中的“positively”可以我们要积极地刺激。

所以要填positively。

【78题详解】
考查同义转换。

根据第五段第⼀句“Pillay's work takes this a step further: He argues that identifying yourself with
creativity is less powerful than the creati ve act of imagining you're somebody else.”可知Pillay建议我们帮助⾃⼰想象成别⼈，也不要担忧我们会是多么成功。

表格⾥使⽤subscribe to the idea that….固定搭配，所以要填subscribes。

【79题详解】考查总结概括。

根据⽂章最后⼀段可知本段讲述的是这个实验的现实意义。

所以要填realistic/practical。

【80题详解】
考查固定搭配和同义替换。

根据⽂章倒数第⼆句“You're making yourself more creative, and you're giving yourself permission to do something you'd otherwise feel guilty about”可知我们让⾃⼰更有创造性，会减少犯罪感，你才会原谅⾃⼰，使⽤forgive sb for sth这个搭配。

所以要填forgive。

【标题】江苏省镇江市2019届⾼三上学期期中考试英语试题
【结束】。