2007职称英语（理工类）模拟试题(3)

出处：中国职称英语考试网作者：robot 日期：2007年06月27日 11时15分

　　39. "These feelings" （Para. 5. dont include _________.

　　A. whether we see ourselves as smart

　　B. whether we see ourselves as timid

　　C. whether we see ourselves as aggressive

　　D. whether we see ourselves as ready

　　40. For personal growth, the author advocates all of the following except _________.

　　A. curiosity about more chances

　　B. promptness in self-adaptation

　　C. open-mindedness to new experiences

　　D. voidance of internal fears and doubts

　　5.阅读理解第三篇

The Importance of Imagination

　　It is pleasant to lie on the glass on a spring day and gaze up at the clouds, seeing in them first a face, then an animal, then another object and another. In these reveries we are doing one of the famous experiments carried on in the psychological laboratory. There the person taking the test must look not at clouds but at ink blots （污渍） like those pictured here and write down, within a given time, as many as possible of the things he sees. It is imagination that enables one to see things not actually in the inkblot or the cloud.

　　Thinking, when it concerns objects or events outside our personal experience, is imagination. Sometimes imagination is defined as the making of new combinations of old experiences. Even the writer of the most fantastic tales puts elements of past experience into his characters. Though he may write about one-eyed monsters, three-legged men or Lilliputians, his characters throughout are made of elements that we all know. Eyes, legs, smallness are not new. It is only the combination that is new.

　　Imagination plays an important part in the kind of thinking which solves a practical problem. The fancies, which enable an Edison to give the world an electric light, represent imagination brought into control and made to work to a useful end.

　　In almost any line of endeavor, imagination of the kind which gets results is necessary. It is made up of two factors. First is the ability to think of new combinations of experiences. Second is the ability to select those combinations that are best. The person who has only the first of these is a flounder and a failure. The person who can criticize but cannot strike out new ideas is equally handicapped. Modern scientific method added the third requisite－experiment or test to answer the question "will it work"? All progress man achieves depends on how he applies and profits from the use of these processes.

　　41. In a psychological laboratory, a person can _________.

　　A. gaze up at clouds

　　B. see a face and an animal

　　C. write down many things

　　D. lie on the grass

　　42. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true? _________.

　　A. Thinking sometimes can mean imagination.

　　B. Thinking is imagination.

　　C. Imagination enables a person to see things actually.

　　D. Imagination enables a writer to have old experiences.

　　43. According to the author, a writers success depends on his _________.

　　A. characters