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Being bored can encourage people's creativity-partly to escape the horrible, frustrated. And meaningless feeling of boredom-recent studies find. It could even be true at work.
Psychologists at the University of Central Lancashire had participants copy numbers out of the telephone book for 15 minutes,while others went straight into a standard creativity task.
Both groups were asked to come up with as many different uses as they could for a plastic cup. The group that felt more bored came up with more uses.
Dr. Sandi Mann, one of the study's authors said. " Boredom at work has always been seen as
something to he removed. hut perhaps we should be welcoming it in order to encourage our creativity. What we want LO do next is to see what the practical implications of this finding are. Do people who are bored at work become more creative in other areas of their work-or do they go homeand write novels?"
In a later study, Dr. Sandi Mann found that creativity was reduced when people were still bored but didn't have the chance to daydream.
While we tend to think of boredom as something; that certainly leads to trouble-drinking, gambling. and antisocial behavior, this research suggests differer possibilities.
More than anything, the feeling of boredom is a 8trong signal that we are stuck in some kind of rut and we need to seek out new goals. In the study above, this research led participants to new ideas.
Usually people will do anything to avoid being bored. as it's such anaversiveexperience. But creative people, like writers, sometimes talk ahout seeking out boredom.
Here is the comedy writer Graham Linehan talking about boredom Lo The Cuardian. "I have to use all these programs that cut off the Internet,force me to be bored, because being bored is an essential part of writing, and the Internet has made it very hard to be bored. The creative process requires a period of boredom ,of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people mistake for writer's block, but it's actually just part of a long process. "
So, when you start to feel bored , instead of g7ancing at your smartphone.,try being bored for a bit. Who knows what creative thought might come of it?
【小题1】From the study of Dr. Sandi Mann, we can learn that__ .

A．boring tasks make people creative

B．daydreaming may increase creativity

C．plastic cups can be used very creatively

D．copying numbers might be very interesting

【小题2】The underlined word "aversive" in Paragraph 8 probably means _

A．common.	B．unpleasant
C．unusual	D．personal

【小题3】According to Craham Linehan. .

A．glancing at a smartphone is a solulion.

B．he is forced to feel bored by the Internet

C．the boredom period is a block for writers

D．being stuck for a period benefits him a lot

【小题4】What is the author's attitude towards boredom?

A．Critical.	B．Cautious.
C．Positive	D．Unclear.

答案：【小题1】B
【小题2】B
【小题3】D
【小题4】C

试题分析:无聊情绪经常是被看做不可取的，从而人们都在一定程度上逃离可怕的，令人沮丧的，无意义的无聊感。但是最近的研究发现，无聊可以激发人们的创造力，甚至在工作中也是如此。所以，当你开始感到无聊时，停止浏览你的智能手机，尝试着让这种无聊保持一段时间。
【小题1】B推理判断题。从文章第五段Dr. Sandi Mann的研究Dr. Sandi Mann found that creativity was reduced when people were still bored but didn't have the chance to daydream.可知当人们一直感到无聊而没有机会做白日梦的时候，他们的创造力会下降。由此推断做白日梦有利于创造力的培养，选B。
【小题2】B词义推断题。根据情理可知无聊是令人沮丧的感觉，而且从文章首段thehorrible, frustrated, andmeaninglessfeelingofboredom和文章倒数第二段中That's actually a very uncomfortable period也可知该词意思是“令人不快的”，选B。
【小题3】D细节理解题。从文章倒数第二段内容可知他自己强迫自己变得无聊，根据becausebeingboredisanessentialpartofwriting和Thecreativeprocessrequiresaperiodofboredom, ofbeingstuck可知他从中受益良多，选D。
【小题4】C推理判断题。根据文章末段作者的建议when you start to feel bored , instead of g7ancing at your smartphone.,try being bored for a bit. Who knows what creative thought might come of it?可知作者对于无聊持积极态度，选C。
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