* Obey your curiosity.

Steve Jobs claimed that creativity is just connecting things. I agree. 【2】 The best way to build a rich mental database that. will help you solve problems later is to honor passing curiosity. If something excites your brain, spend a moment on it. Follow paths that have no obvious purpose rather than satisfy a fantasy.

*【3】

Early in my career, Will Marre, founding president of Stephen Covey s training company, warned me to subscribe to a handful of business journals he listed, and added, “And every time you read one, be sure to read at least one article that 1s of. no interest to you.”I've been rewarded time and again for doing do. Many things that end up in my mind have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as chores and ended with an insight.【4】

* Have uncomfortable conversations.

Another great creative stimulus is to regularly engage in conversations with people from whom you might normally recoil( 畏缩). Three of the more unexpectedly fruitful conversations in my life were with a racist taxi driver in London, a drug dealer seatmate on a plane, and an extremist political advocate in Puerto Rico.【5】This discipline helped me find the psychological flexibility I needed in Canada.

A.Do things that don't interest you.

B.When you work hard, you can become creative.

C.Here are some of the ways I've learned to be more predictably creative.

D.Have a strange conversation with someone that will happen in the future.

E.If you want to be more creative, you will need to have more things to connect.

F.As a result of these conversations, I gained valuable perspectives from lives I :will never live.

G.Sometimes, we' call things boring simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.

【答案】

【1】C

【2】E

【3】A

【4】G

【5】F

【解析】

本文为一篇议论文。文章介绍了几种可预见的增强创造力的方法。

【1】上文讲述创造力是一种可以学习的能力。但以我的经验，我们可以创造条件来发展它。结合后文可知，文章介绍了几种可预见的发展创造力的方法。C. Here are some of the ways I've learned to be more predictably creative.（以下是我学到的一些有预见性地创造的方法。）引出下文，符合此处语境。故选C项。

【2】根据前文Steve Jobs claimed that creativity is just connecting things. I agree.（史蒂夫乔布斯声称创造力只是连接事物。我同意。）E. If you want to be more creative, you will need to have more things to connect.（如果你想变得更有创造力，你需要有更多的东西来联系。） connect与前文相呼应。故选E项。

【3】根据后文可知，在我职业生涯的早期，斯蒂芬柯维(Stephen Covey)培训公司的创始总裁威尔马尔(Will Marre)曾提醒我订阅他列出的几份商业期刊，并补充道:“每次你读一份，一定要至少读一篇你不感兴趣的文章。”因此推断（A. Do things that don't interest you.（做你不感兴趣的事）为后文的总结，符合此处语境。故选A项。

【4】结合前文Many things that end up in my mind have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as chores and ended with an insight.( 许多事情最终在我脑海中浮现，它们来自于研讨会、文章或在线视频，开始只是一些琐事，最后却有了深刻的见解)G. Sometimes, we' call things boring simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.（有时，我们认为无聊，仅仅是因为它们在我们目前的认知之外。）解释前文需要做一些不感兴趣的事的原因。故选G项。

【5】根据前文Three of the more unexpectedly fruitful conversations in my life a racist taxi driver in London, a drug dealer seatmate on a plane, and an extremist political advocate in Puerto Rico.（在我的生活中，有三次出人意料的富有成效的谈话是与伦敦的一名种族主义出租车司机、一名坐在飞机上的毒贩和波多黎各的一名极端分子进行的。）F. As a result of these conversations, I gained valuable perspectives from lives I will never live.（通过这些对话，我从我永远不可能接触的生活中获得了宝贵的观点。）解释上文，符合此处语境。故选F项。