2005考研“考试虫”英语8套模拟试卷(三)1
2005硕士研究生入学考试“考试虫”英语8套试卷(三) 1——20
Section I Use of English（满分10分） Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
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
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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 an (8) setting to (9)a wide range of possible solutions to a problem. How strongly to is cteativity (10) to intelligence? (11) most creative people are quite intelli-is not necessarily true. Many highly intelligent people ((13) measured by IQtests) 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 are ability and experience that (20) an individual’s effort,often over the course of a lifetime. 1、
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B
[A] imaginative [B] brilliant [C] inventive [D] original 2、
（本题分值：0.5分）【正确答案】 C
[A] clumsy [B] awkward [C] dumb [D] untutored 3、
（本题分值：0.5分）【正确答案】 D
[A] depised [B] hidden [C] distorted [D] unnoticed
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（本题分值：0.5分） 【正确答案】 D
[A] accent [B] tone [C] sound [D] voice 5、
（本题分值：0.5分） 【正确答案】 B
[A] although [B] nevertheless [C] so [D] whenever 6、
（本题分值：0.5分） 【正确答案】 A [A] root
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[B] set [C] come [D] sovle 7、
（本题分值：0.5分） 【正确答案】 A
[A] seeming [B] actually [C] logically [D] barely 8、
（本题分值：0.5分） 【正确答案】 A
[A] enjoyable [B] appropriate [C] speical [D] pleased 9、
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2005考研“考试虫”英语8套模拟试卷(三)1
