内容正文:
高20级英语测试
英语
第一部分:知识运用(共两节;30分)
第一节 完形填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,共15分)
Famous people often say that the key to becoming both happy and successful is to “do what you love”. But mastering a skill, even one that you deeply love, ____1____ a huge amount of dull work. Anyone who wants to master a skill must run through the cycle of practice, ____2____ feedback, modification, and increasing improvement again, again and again. Some people seem able to concentrate on practicing an activity like this for years and take pleasure in their gradual improvement. Yet others find this kind of focused, time-intensive work to be ____3____ or boring. Why?
The difference may ____4____ the ability to enter into state of “flow,” the feeling of being completely involved in what you are doing. Since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi developed the ____5____ of flow in the 1970’s, it has been a mainstay of positive-psychology research. Flow states can happen in the course of any activity, and they are most common when a task has well-defined goals and is at a(n) ____6____ skill level.
Csikszentmihalyi suggested that those who most ____7____ entered into flow states had an “autotelic (自成目的的) personality” — a disposition to seek out challenges and get into a state of flow. While those without such a personality see difficulties, autotelic individuals see opportunities to build skills. With their capacity for “disinterested interest”, such people have a great ____8____ over others in developing their innate abilities.
Fortunately for those of us who aren’t necessarily blessed with an autotelic personality, there is evidence that flow states can be ____9____ by environmental factors. By giving ourselves unstructured, open-ended time, minimal _____10_____, and a task set at a moderate level of difficulty, we may be able to love what we’re doing.
1 A. inquires B. requires C. acquires D. gains
2. A. preventable B. maintainable C. sustainable D. critical
3. A. frustrating B. encouraging C. concerning D. instructin