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1、（全国卷）2021届高考英语下学期4月模拟题6（含解析）(时间：120分钟 满分：120分)选择题部分第一部分阅读理解(共两节，满分50分)第一节(共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项。A（2021江西南昌市南昌二中高二期末） Most of us marry creativity to our concept of self either were creative or we arent, without much of a middle ground. Im just not a creative person! a
2、 frustrated student might say in art class, while another might blame her talent at painting for her difficulties in math, giving a comment such as, Im very right-brained.Dr. Pillay, a tech entrepreneur and an assistant professor at Harvard University, has been challenging these ideas. He believes t
3、hat the key to unlocking your creative potential is to ignore the traditional advice that urges you to believe in yourself. In fact, you should do the opposite: Believe you are someone else.Dr. Pillay points to a 2016 study demonstrating the impact of stereotypes on ones behavior; The authors. educa
4、tional psychologists Denis Dumas and Kevin Dunbar, divided their college student subjects into three groups, instructing the members of one to think of themselves as romantic poets and the members of another to imagine they were serious librarians (the third group was the control). The researchers t
5、hen presented all the participants with ten ordinary objects, including a fork, a carrot, and a pair of pants, and asked them to come up with as many different uses as possible for each one. Those who were asked to imagine themselves as romantic poets came up with the widest range of ideas, whereas
6、those in the serious-librarian group had the fewest. Meanwhile, the researchers found only small differences in students creativity levels across academic majors.These results suggest that creativity is not a fixed individual characteristic but a malleable product of context and perspective, as long
7、 as he or she feels like a creative person. Dr. Pillay argues that, besides identifying yourself as creative, taking the bold, creative step of imagining you are somebody else is even more powerful. So, wish you were more creative? Just pretend!1According to the passage， who is more likely to unlock
8、 his creative potential?AAn art major who always believes in himself.BA math major who has excellent academic performanceCA physics major who likes to imagine himself as a poet.DA history major who works as a librarian on weekends.2What does the Study conducted by Denis Dumas and Kevin Dunbar focus
9、on?AThe creativity of the college students.BThe stereotypes of the college students.CThe impact of stereotypes on ones behaviorDThe influence of creativity on ones behavior.3The underlined word in the last paragraph probably means_?AstableBsustainableCpredicableDchangeable4Dr Pillay may agree with t
10、he statement that_.Athere is no doubt that we are either creative or notBa student who doesnt do well in art class is not creativeCright brain determines whether a person is creative or notDif we pretend to be creative， then we might be really creative B（2021湖南师大附中高三月考） Some people get more unwillin
11、g to take risks as the years go by. Not Gail MacCallum, who at age 40 quit a secure job and left the city she had enjoyed her whole adult life to step into the unknown.MacCallum spent her formative years in a farmhouse without electricity and enjoyed the freedom of the natural world. During her adul
12、t life, she moved through several jobs before finding her calling in book publishing and then magazines. One day she and her partner Ian Connellan were on a holiday on Hobart, enjoying the chance to get close to wildlife, when they ran into some friends- of-friends, who asked them to dinner. The nex
13、t day, recalls MacCallum, “They said, We think you should buy our house.” With no intention of uprooting their lives she and Connellan thought this was “entirely ridiculous, yet they got really excited talking about the possibilities such a move might present. “At last,” we said, “Lets give it a go.
14、”They resigned from their jobs and moved to Hobart. Both of them are brave travelers who had spent time with scientists working in various remote spots around the world. They wondered if they could make a living by helping others to experience those unique places for themselves. Then came the new co
15、mpany Curious Traveler. “It works brilliantly. Scientists get helpers and funding. Guests get to see what scientists do and how the world is changing because of it. They leave, excited and inspired,” MacCallum says.In two-and-a-half years, the pair still have to replenish their incomes with some wri
16、ting and editing, but the business is growing and within five years they hope to be helping fund half a dozen research projects. It is a big task. “Some days we think it would be great to turn it off,” MacCallum says, “but when we see the wonder on the face of a person who is experiencing somewhere like the Galapagos f
