上海市上海中学2019-2020年高三上学期12月月考英语试题.pdfVIP

2019-2020 学年上海中学高三上学期12 月月考英语试题 2019.12 II. Grammar and Vocabulary 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 （21 ）_______ （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 （22 ）_______ 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 （23 ）_______ （find ）some support in existing studies that indicate a correlation between creativity and “putting things of.” Grant explains that the link between moderate procrastination and originality likely （24 ）_______ （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, （25 ）_______ （buy ）us time to find innovative solutions. One study （26 ）_______ （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 procrastinator