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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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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、fountain
B、well
C、waterfall
D、hotspring
答案
B
解析
well井,源泉。magical well:魔井。爱尔兰传说中有一个魔井,喝了它的水,人将变得无所不知。由此well可表示"(知识的)源泉"的含义。Well of knowledge知识的源泉;a book that in a well of information一本提供大量信息的书。fountain喷泉;waterfall瀑布;hotspring温泉。
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