2019-2020学年上海中学高三上学期12月月考英语试题
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II. Grammar and Vocabulary
梦幻图片唯美星空Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, u one word that bet fits each blank.
Procrastination-a Virtue When It Comes to Creativity?
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Psychologist Adam Grant, from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, argues that people who “put off” solving a task for a little while-thus engaging in moderate procrastination --are often able to come up with （21）_______（original）ideas about how to solve that task than people who get started on their work right away.
Grant makes this argument in the book Originals. How Non-conformists Change the World
and reiterates it in a popular ted talk（22）_______ he says that “procrastination is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue when it comes to creativity.” This point of view ems（23）_______（find）some support in existing studies that indicate a correlation between creativity and “putting things of.”
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Grant explains that the link between moderate procrastination and originality likely（24）_______（exist）becau when we actively put off a task for a while, our preoccupation with the task itlf does not disappear. Instead, the unfinished work “runs in the background” of our brains, （25）_______（buy）us time to find innovative solutions.
One study（26）_______（publish） in Personality and Individual Differences in 2017 also found a link between creative ideation（coming up with creative ideas）and active procrastination. It suggested that among 853 undergraduates at Chine universities, “active procrastinators” may be more prone to creativity.
Boredom（27）_______ have something to do with this boost in creative thinking. Older rearch from the University of Florida in Gainesville suggests that people who procrastin
ate may be more prone to boredom than their peers.
And while boredom itlf is a concept that sometimes has negative connotations, studies（28）_______（show）that allowing ourlves to feel bored for a while can boost our creative abilities. The rearchers explain that this may be becau when we are bored, we allow our minds to wander, thus “training” our imaginations.
Finally,（29）_______ putting off a task forever out of fear and lf-doubt may be paralyzing and unhelpful, a little bit of “directed” procrastination will likely not be harmful and may allow us to asss the task at hand more imaginatively.
And for some of us, that pressure of looking a deadline straight in the eye can be just（30）_______ we need to keep us on our toes. As Calvin, one of the main characters in the comic strips Calvin and Hobbes. once said: “You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood”, and that mood is “last-minute panic.”
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Section B春古诗
Directions; Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be ud once Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. combining B. recover C. appeal D. esntial E. colorful F. retained G. earned H. overtook I. unsticking J. marvels K. recorded |
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Why do Chine Parents Prefer Legos to Barbies?
Budding engineers cluster around a table-sized model of the China Art Muum, a landmark of Shanghai, adding helipads, carrot patches and other improvements with 31 bricks. Prising a child from Lego’s vast shop near People’s Square can be like 32 two stubborn bits of Lego. Li Yang, visiting for a few days from Shenzhen, has been waiting for her daughter for two hours. Zhu Yun fei, watching his son, 不的意思 33 at the variety; “Coming here to play with him is making up for my childhood,” he says. They drop by every week.
Logo’s ri in China has been rapid and dramatic. In 2017 it 34 Alpha Group a local gia
nt, to become the country’s leading toy company（not including video games）. In the past two years it has opened 89 stores. It wants 50 more by December. which will bring it to 30 cities. Its first Chine factory started molding bricks in 2016. The toy industry is growing by 9% annually in the country, but the Danish firm’s Chine arm notches up “very strong double digits,” says Paul Huang, its boss.
It has done so even as the brick maker’s global business has looked shakier. In 2017 Lego cut 1, 400 jobs and 35 its first drop in revenues and profits in over a decade. But last year both ticked up again, by 4% each. Lego has thus 黄瓜咸菜 36 its status as the world’s biggest toy-maker, taken from Mattel in 2014--even as its American rival last year 公务员年度总结 37 its highest revenues in five years from its Barbie dolls.
