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【題目】 Brriiinnng. The alarm clock announces the start of another busy weekday in the morning. You jump out of bed, rush into the shower，into your clothes and out the door with hardly a moment to think. A stressful journey to work gets your blood pressure climbing. Once at the office, you glance through the newspaper with depressing stories or reports of disasters. In that sort of mood，who can get down to work, particularly some creative，original problem-solving work?

The way most of us spend our mornings is exactly opposite to the conditions that promote flexible,open-minded thinking. Imaginative ideas are most likely to come to us when we’re unfocused. If you are one of those energetic morning people, your most inventive time comes in the early evening when you are relaxed. Sleepy people’s lack of focus leads to an increase in creative problem solving. By not giving yourself time to tune into your wandering mind, you’re missing out on the surprising solutions it may offer. The trip you take to work doesn’t help, either. The stress slows down the speed with which signals travel between neurons(神經(jīng)細(xì)胞)，making inspirations less likely to occur. And while we all should read a lot about what’s going on in the world，it would not make you feel good for sure, so put that news website or newspaper aside until after the day’s work is done.

So what would our mornings look like if we wanted to start them with a full capacity for creative problem solving? We’d set the alarm a few minutes early and lie awake in bed，following our thoughts where they lead. We'd stand a little longer under the warm water of the shower，stopping thinking about tasks in favor of a few more minutes of relaxation. We’d take some deep breaths on our way to work, instead of complaining about heavy traffic. And once in the office —we’d click on links not to the news of the day but to the funniest videos the web has to offer.

【1】According to the author, we are more creative when we are______.

A. focusedB. awake

C. relaxedD. busy

【2】What does the author imply about newspapers?

A. They are solution providers.

B. They are normally full of bad news.

C. They are a source of inspiration.

D. They are more educational than websites.

【3】By “tune into your wandering mind” (in Para. 2)，the author means “ ”.

A. wander into the wildB. listen to a beautiful tune

C. switch to the traffic channelD. stop concentrating on anything

【4】What does the author intend to do in the last paragraph?

A. To offer practical suggestions.

B. To summarize past experiences.

C. To advocate diverse ways of life.

D. To set up a routine for the future.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】B

【3】D

【4】A

【解析】

本文是一篇說明文，介紹了人在注意力不集中的情況下最有創(chuàng)造性，并給出了一些讓我們更有創(chuàng)造性的建議。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段中的“your most inventive time comes in the early evening when you are relaxed.”可知，作者認(rèn)為在放松的情況下，人們更具創(chuàng)造性，故C項正確。

【2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段中的“you glance through the newspaper with depressing stories or reports of disasters. In that sort of mood，who can get down to work”可知，報紙上有很多負(fù)面新聞，它們會影響我們的情緒，故B項正確。

【3】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段中的“Imaginative ideas are most likely to come to us when we’re unfocused．”可知，在注意力分散的時候，人是最有創(chuàng)造性的，會有很多創(chuàng)造性的想法出現(xiàn)。那么這句話意為：如果我們不給時間去調(diào)整思緒，我們就會錯過解決問題的好方法，所以作者說調(diào)整思緒的意思就是不要把注意力集中在某個事情上，故D項正確。

【4】推理判斷題。文章最后一段給出了很多的建議，都是關(guān)于如何讓我們在早晨更有創(chuàng)造性的，由此可知作者想在最后一段提供一些切實可行的建議，故A項正確。