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, use one word that bet fits each blank.
Procrastination - a Virtue When It Comes to Creativity?
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 1. (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 2. 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 seems 3. (find) some support in existing studies that indicate a correlation between creativity and “putting things off.”
Grant explains that the link between moderate procrastination and originality likely 4. (exist) because when we actively put off a task for a while, our preoccupation with the task itself does not disappear. Instead, the unfinished work “runs in the background” of our brains, 5. (buy) us time to find innovative solutions.
One study 6. (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 Chinese universities, “active procrastinators” may be more prone to creativity.
Boredom 7. have something to do with this boost in creative thinking. Older research from the University of Florida in Gainesville suggests that people who procrastinate may be more prone to boredom than their peers.
And while boredom itself is a concept that sometimes has negative connotations, studies 8. (show) that allowing ourselves to feel bored for a while can boost our creative abilities. The researchers explain that this may be because when we are bored, we allow our minds to wander, thus “training” our imaginations.
Finally, 9. putting off a task forever out of fear and self-doubt may be paralyzing and unhelpful, a little bit of “directed” procrastination will likely not be harmful and may allow us to assess the task at hand more imaginatively.
And for some of us, that pressure of looking a deadline straight in the eye can be just 10. 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.”
假设你叫李华，寒假即将到来，你在网上看到一家国际旅行社招聘兼职助理的广告想去应聘。请你从以下几个方面，用英语给该旅行社写一封100词左右的求职信。
1. 应聘原因；
2. 个人资质；
3. 期待回复。
注意：1.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
2.信的开头已给出，但不计入总词数。
参考词汇: 助理 assistant
Dear Sir / Madam,
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
1.It was not until Amy told Nick off when Nick realized his mistake.
2.These villagers would live in countryside rather than move to the city.
3.Since I was a child, I considered different jobs I would like to do.
4.Winning a gold medal is too exciting a fact to believe it.
5.The more careful you are when doing your homework, the less mistakes you are likely to make.
6.Tom was so pleased of the result that he showed it off everywhere.
7.With information technology develops, it’s easier for people to contact each other.
8.I don’t think there’s a more livelier place than Xiamen.
9.It can’t be poor Ellen because she has to stay in hospital for two weeks after run over by a car.
10.I don’t think a loyal friend will make a fuss about us forget his birthday.
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I can’t remember the last time someone asked me to write back. We don’t write letters anymore. The strong feeling of 1. (excited) is gone; there’s never anything good in the mail. We know 2. is in the mail – advertisements and circulars (印刷信函).
When I was young, my family only moved 200 miles, but it seemed like we had been separated from friends and all things familiar by two continents and an ocean. Long distance phone calls were rare and expensive then, most often kept for emergencies 3. bad news. But people wrote. Both of my grandmothers, and two of my great-aunts wrote to 4. (I).
It was special that someone took an interest 5. a homesick kid. That someone would take the time to share their lives and inquire about mine really 6. (mean) a lot. My mother was a great letter writer. I looked forward to her letters when I left home, went to college and then traveled across the country 7. (work) newspaper jobs. When I married, had children and moved again, still far from home, she wrote 8. (faith). Letters were a way of closing the distance.
Back then, letter writers were storytellers because they were 9. (observe) of the world around them. As phone calls became 10. (afford), then cheap, the flow of letters slowed down and eventually stopped.
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1.Don’t just simply be e________ of others’ success, as you never see them work hard till midnight all the time..
2.My parents thought it was a________ for a boy to be interested in ballet, so they refused to send me to a ballet course.
3.I’d a________ it if you could let me carry out the survey.
4.Closing the factory means 80 workers are facing u_______.
5.Without doubt, it’s very beneficial for students to take an active part in different kinds of English c______.
6.I had to give up my o_________ plan because the boss said it was too time-consuming and asked me to figure out a better one.
7.Did you hear the news that the national radio station just b__________?
8.Don't make a p_________ you cannot keep and don't say something unless you mean it.
9.Amy, a student at the Oxford University, has got some f____________ problems recently, which means her family doesn’t have enough money to support her education.
10.Do you have confidence to meet the r_____________ for the job position?
One rainy afternoon I was sitting at home feeling so bored._____ feeling sorry for myself，I wanted to meet people and have new _____ so I decided to start volunteering.I found a website where I could volunteer on a farm in France.
Volunteering _____ so many opportunities to have fun and share _____ stories.It was the first time for me to work on a farm.It was almost a(n) _____ holiday as food and accommodation were provided.It was not one _____ holiday，however，as I had to _____ fifteen horses and sheep！I soon discovered that I was a(n) _____ farmer but it did not matter because I made some great friends and also improved my _____．
However，you do not ______ go abroad to volunteer.I have had plenty of adventures at home as volunteering can become a ______．For example，I love ______ so I had a good laugh waving my arms in order to ______ my local choir(合唱团)．At university，I organized a concert for charity with my friends.It was really ______ to find bands and raise money for a cause.
It is true that you feel good volunteering but there are also other ______．I once volunteered as a steward (干事) at a charity sports event where the organizers ______ gave me cupcakes from an expensive London bakery to thank me for my ______．I also volunteered in a charity shop so I found loads of nice cheap clothes to ______ my wardrobe.
While this is all fun，my favourite aspect of volunteering is ______ and sharing stories.My terrible ______ at farming has given me funny stories to tell!
1.A.Apart from B.Due to C.Instead of D.But for
2.A.experiences B.discoveries C.opportunities D.changes
3.A.recommends B.demands C.offers D.seizes
4.A.popular B.fantastic C.familiar D.important
5.A.impressive B.free C.cheap D.special
6.A.unique B.regular C.typical D.convenient
7.A.attend to B.research into C.hunt for D.communicate with
8.A.skillful B.suitable C.hard－working D.awful
9.A.English B.French C.Russian D.Chinese
10.A.normally B.basically C.naturally D.necessarily
11.A.hobby B.trend C.job D.reality
12.A.dancing B.writing C.singing D.performing
13.A.greet B.control C.organize D.conduct
14.A.powerful B.hopeful C.meaningful D.successful
15.A.adventures B.advantages C.factors D.achievements
16.A.generously B.cautiously C.equally D.proudly
17.A.services B.patience C.determination D.choices
18.A.decorate B.replace C.beautify D.update
19.A.creating B.imagining C.choosing D.completing
20.A.offence B.shame C.attempt D.annoyance
