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  3. Most of us would like to be both (1)_____ and creative. Why was Thomas Edison able to invent so many things? Was he simply more

Most of us would like to be both (1)_____ and creative. Why was Thomas Edison able to invent so many things? Was he simply more

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问题     Most of us would like to be both (1)_____ and creative. Why was Thomas Edison able to invent so many things? Was he simply more intelligent than most people? Did he spend long hours toiling away in private? Surprisingly, when Edison was a young boy, his teacher told him he was too (2)_____ to learn anything. Other famous people whose creative genius went (3)_____ when they were young include Walt Disney, who was fired from a newspaper job because he did not have any good ideas and Enrico Caruso, whose music teacher told him that his (4)_____ was terrible.
    Disney, Edison and Caruso were intelligent and creative men; (5)_____, experts on creativity believe that intelligence is not the same as creativity. Creativity is the ability to think about something in new and unusual ways, and to (6)_____ out unique solutions to problems. When creative people are asked what enables them to solve problems in new ways, they say that the ability to find affinities between (7)_____ unrelated elements plays a key role. They also say that they have the time and independence in a(an) (8)_____ setting to (9)_____ a wide range of possible solutions to a problem.
    How strongly is creativity (10)_____ to intelligence? (11)_____ most creative people are quite intelligent, the (12)_____ is not necessarily true. Many highly intelligent people (13)_____ measured by IQ tests) are not very creative.
    Some experts remain skeptical that we will ever fully understand the creative process. Others believe that a psychology of creativity is within reach. Most experts agree, (14)_____, that the concept of creativity as (15)_____ bubbling up from a magical (16)_____ is a myth. Momentary (17)_____ of insight, (18)_____ by images, make up a (19)_____ part of the creative process. At the heart of the creative process are ability and experience that (20)_____ an individual’s effort, often over the course of a lifetime.
选项 A、imaginative
B、brilliant
C、inventive
D、original
答案B
解析 brilliant有才气的，聪明的。本句中"…and creative"应与下面两个疑问句中的"able to invent"；"intelligent"相呼应。因此可以看出，空白处应填"intelligent"的同义词，故brilliant正确。而第二段首句中"intelligent and creative"也与本句"brilliant and creative"相呼应。在做完形填空时，一定要特别注意这种前后的呼应。句意：我们大都希望自己既才华横溢又富有创造性。imaginative想象的；inventive善于创造的；original最初的，独创的。其余三个词与creative的意思相近，不符合句意。
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