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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、enjoyable
B、appropriate
C、special
D、pleased
答案A
解析 此处讨论天才成长的客观条件+谈到他们有时间，有自主权。还说他们"in a(an)...setting"，可以看出这里应该是选积极的词汇。enjoyable setting意为"令人愉快的环境"，放在这里合适。appropriate一般形容人的行为或者某项措施，不能修饰"环境"。special过于泛泛，没有表示出消极的含义。pleased只能修饰人，不能修饰事物，如果是 pleasing就正确。
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