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[单项选择]The Uses of Difficulty
The brain likes a challenge—and putting a few obstacles in its way may well boost its creativity.
A)Jack White, the former frontman of the White Stripes and an influential figure among fellow musicians, likes to make things difficult for himself. He uses cheap guitars that won’t stay in shape or in tune. When performing, he positions his instruments in a way that is deliberately inconvenient, so that switching from guitar to organ mid-song involves a mad dash across the stage. Why Because he’s on the run from what he describes as a disease that preys on every artist: “ease of use”. When making music gets too easy, says White, it becomes harder to make it sing.
B)It’s an odd thought. Why would anyone make their work more difficult than it already is Yet we know that difficulty can pay unexpected dividends. In 1966, soon after the Beatles had finished work on “Rubber Soul”, Paul McCartney looked into the possibility of going to America to record the
[填空题]A new study uses advanced brain-scanning technology to cast light onto a topic that (1) ______
psychologists have puzzled over more than half a century: social conformity. The study (2) ______
was based on a famous series of laboratory experiment from the 1950’s by a social (3) ______
psychologist, Dr. Solomon Asch. In those early studies, the subjects were shown two
cards. On the first was a vertical line. On the second were three lines, one of them the
same length with that on the first card. Then the subjects were asked to say which two (4) ______
lines were like, something that most 5-year-olds could answer correctly. But Dr. Asch (5) ______
added a twist. Seven other people, in cahoots with the researchers, also examined the lines
and gave their answers before the subjects did. And Sometimes these confederates unconsciously (6) ______
gave the right answer. Dr. Asch was astonished at what happened next. After thinking hard,
