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浙江奉化市2017高考英语完形填空（一轮）精选精练及参考答案 （2016高考训练）阅读下列材料，从每题所给的选项中选出最佳选项。 体裁：说明文　话题：错误与成长　词数：352　时间：5′ We live in a culture that sends out very mixed messages about mistakes: Were told we learn by making them, but we work hard to avoid them.So the result is most of us know that we are going to make mistakes, but deep down, we feel we shouldnt. Experiments with schoolchildren who did well on a given test show that those who were praised for being smart and then offered a more challenging or less challenging task afterward usually chose the easier one.On the other hand, children praised for trying hard—rather than being smart—far more often selected the more difficult task. If we try hard to avoid mistakes, we arent open to getting the information we need in order to do better.In a writing study, experiments showed that those who are so scared to make mistakes perform worse in writing tasks than those who arent as worried about being perfect.They fear receiving any kind of negative feedback, so they dont learn where they went wrong and how to get better. We dont just learn more when were open to mistakes, we learn deeper.Research tells us that if were only concerned about getting the right answer, we dont always learn the underlying concepts that help us truly understand whatever were trying to figure out.Mistakes need to be seen not as a failure to learn, but as a guide to what still needs to be learned.As Thomas Edison said, “I am not discouraged, because every abandoned wrong attempt is another step forward.” Furthermore, we often make mistakes because we try new things—we wander away from accepted paths.Teflon, penicillin—these are examples of great discoveries made by mistake.Take a page from Albert Einstein, who said, “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” 【语篇解读】　本文讲述了错误对于我们成长的积极作用，并列举了相关实验和例子，以及我们应该用积极的态度对待错误。 1．What will happen to students praised for being smart in face of choosing tasks compared to students praised for working hard? A