首页
登录
职称英语
For authors of self-help guides, no human problem is too great or too small.
For authors of self-help guides, no human problem is too great or too small.
游客
2023-08-21
42
管理
问题
For authors of self-help guides, no human problem is too great or too small. Want to become fitter, richer or happier in 2015? There are books for it—【C1】______upon shelves of them. Hoping for increased efficiency, decisiveness and creativity in the months ahead? There are titles for that, too.
As we settle down to our New Year’s【C2】______, we’ll turn in droves to self-help books, hoping to find our own best selves in their pages. But a book needn’t lecture to leave its imprint. The truth is that all good literature changes us, and a growing body of research suggests you might do better browsing through fiction for support in【C3】______life’s challenges. Think of it less as self-help than "shelf help".
Reading has been proven to sharpen【C4】______thinking, enabling us to better discern patterns—a handy tool when it comes to the often baffling behaviour of ourselves and others. But fiction in particular can make you more socially able. Last year, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology published a paper showing how reading Harry Potter made young people in the U. K. and Italy more【C5】______disposed towards stigmatised (使蒙上污名的) minorities such as【C6】______. And in 2013, psychologists at the New School for Social Research found that literary fiction enhanced people’s ability to【C7】______and read others’ emotions.
We think of novels as places in which to lose ourselves, but when we【C8】______, we take with us inspiration from our favourite characters. A 2012 study by researchers at Ohio State University found that this process could actually change a reader’s behaviour. In one experiment, participants strongly identifying with a【C9】______character who overcame obstacles to vote proved significantly more likely to vote in a real election.
They may not promise transformation in seven easy steps, but gripping novels can inform and motivate, short stories can console and trigger self-reflection, and poetry has been shown to engage parts of the brain linked to memory. Sometimes an author helps by simply taking your mind off a problem,【C10】______you so fully in another’s world and outlook that you transcend yourself, returning recharged and determined.
A) positively I) accepting
B) books J) refugees
C) battling K) analytical
D) fictional L) emerge
E) register M) concretely
F) immersing N) shelves
G) critical O) express
H) resolutions [br] 【C9】
选项
答案
D
解析
空格位于不定冠词a之后,名词character之前,由此推断应填入形容词。根据句意,参与者强烈感受到小说中的——人物克服重重困难去投票,就如同在真正选举中投票一样。对照两个形容词备选项,D)fictional“虚构的,小说的”和G)critical“批评的,关键的”,只有D)fictional“虚构的,小说的”符合语境,可以用来修饰character,且与后面的real形成对比,故为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2944935.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]Manycountriesoftheworldhavebeenfacedwiththeproblem
[originaltext]Manycountriesoftheworldhavebeenfacedwiththeproblem
[originaltext]W:Youareanexpertonurbanproblem,Mr.Parker.lwonderhowy
Theproblemofhowhealth-careresourcesshouldbeallocatedorapportioned,
Theproblemofhowhealth-careresourcesshouldbeallocatedorapportioned,
Drone—ProblemandChancesA)InthefirstincidentonMay
Drone—ProblemandChancesA)InthefirstincidentonMay
Drone—ProblemandChancesA)InthefirstincidentonMay
Drone—ProblemandChancesA)InthefirstincidentonMay
Drone—ProblemandChancesA)InthefirstincidentonMay
随机试题
[originaltext]Theaveragepersonlearnsmostofthe30,000-40,000wordswho
()是目前最常用、最经济的超导材料冷却介质。A.液氮 B.液汞 C.液氧
春色满园关不住,一枝红杏出墙来之于()相当于欲把西湖比西子,淡妆浓抹总
柱下条形基础梁的高度宜为柱距的下列何种比值范围?()A.柱距的1/6~1/3
根据《营业性演出管理条例》规定,下列被县级人民政府文化主管部门处以8倍以上10倍
高血压病十余年,一年来活动后呼吸困难,夜间常胸闷气急而惊醒,坐位可以缓解。此病例
某一研究者需要收集近年来国家教育事业发展的有关数据,最可靠的信息来源是 A.
根据《人民警察警衔条例》第8条和第9条的规定,担任行政职务的人民警察实行职务等级
股票上市交易申请经()审核同意后,签订上市协议的公司应当在规定的期限内公告股
立法体制包括立法权限的划分、立法机关的设置和立法权的行使等各方面的制度,关于我国
最新回复
(
0
)