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Unit 4 自我认识及提升

序号 标题 题型 体裁 词数 难度 建议用时

A 有关“无聊”的科学研究 阅读理解 说明文 320 ★★★★☆ 8 min

B 建立自信 阅读理解七选五 说明文 300 ★★★☆☆ 8 min

C 我学会了如何化解愤怒的情绪 完形填空 夹叙夹议 275 ★★★★☆ 13 min

D 唯有与他人的关系永恒 语法填空 夹叙夹议 186 ★★☆☆☆ 6 min

E 权力伴随着责任 读后续写 记叙文 325 ★★★★☆ 25 min

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阅读下面的短文,从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Boredom has become quite interesting to academics for a long time. What, exactly, is everybody studying?

One widely accepted psychological definition of boredom is “the aversive(令人厌恶的) experience of

wanting, but being unable, to engage in satisfying activity. ” But how can you quantify a person s boredom

level and compare it with someone else s? In 1986, psychologists introduced the Boredom Proneness Scale,

designed to measure an individual s overall natural tendency to feel bored ( what s known as “ trait

boredom”). By contrast, the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale, developed in 2008, measures a

person s feelings of boredom in a given situation (“ state boredom”). A German-led team has since

identified five types of state boredom. Boredom may be miserable, but let no one call it simple.

Boredom has been linked to behaviour issues including bad driving, mindless snacking, heavy-

drinking, risky sex, and problem gambling. In fact, many of us would take pain over boredom. One team

of psychologists discovered that two-thirds of men and a quarter of women would rather self-administer(自

我给药) electric shocks than sit alone with their thoughts for 15 minutes. Investigating this phenomenon,

another team asked volunteers to watch boring, sad, or neutral(不带感情色彩的) films, during which

they could self-administer electric shocks. The bored volunteers shocked themselves more and harder than

the sad or neutral ones did.

But boredom isn t all bad. By encouraging deep thinking and daydreaming, it can promote creativity.

An early, much-cited study gave participants abundant time to complete problem-solving and word-

association exercises. Once all the obvious answers were used up, participants gave more and more

inventive answers to get rid of boredom. A British study took these findings one step further, asking

subjects to complete a creative challenge (coming up with a list of alternative uses for a household item).

One group of subjects did a boring activity first, while the others went straight to the creative task. Those

whose boredom were raised in advance were more creative and productive.
(江苏省如皋市 2021 届高三上学期期末考试)