【英语二】2021考研-全真模拟题-A级答案解析.docx

内部资料免费交流 内部资料免费交流 2021年全国硕士研究生招生考试 英语(二)模拟试题A Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and mark A, B. C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) Being different from everyone else can make one feel hopeless, but there s an advantage to being a weirdo. In fact, a body of social-science research suggests that being an oddball or a social reject can [ remarkable creativity Sharon Kim at Johns Hopkins University tested whether social outsiders are more creative by inciting some volunteers to her lab to complete a couple of exercises. 2 she began, Kim rejected some participants by telling them they werent 3 to work as part of the group There was no group~~Kirn just wanted to make them feel 4 out. Others weren t ignored in the same way. Kim asked the participants to perforin nvo exercises on paper In one. they were asked to detennine what united a series of seemingly 5 words In the other, tliey were told to draw an alien from a planet very unlike our own. The rejects, it turned out, were better at both 6 . For the alien task, the nonrejected participants drew standard, cartoonish aliens. 7 . the rejected participants dxew aliens that looked radically different from humans. The outcasts drawings were more cream e. So rejection and $ weie related. But the advantage was seen only among participants who had an independent self-concept *—neaning they already felt they didnt 9 . There appeared to be something about being a weirdo that could 10 your mind and allow new ideas to flow. Being considered weird can enhance an element of creativity called integrative complexity People who are strong in integrative complexity tend to 11 uncertainty well and excel at adjusting 12 information. Theyre often able to see problems from multiple 13 Chns CrandalL a psychology professor at the University of Kansas, said that 内部资料免费交流 outsiders are less 14 with viiat the in-crowd thinks of them. 15 they haw more freedom to experi