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Questions 51 - 55: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable sentence from A to G on the list for each gap from 51 to 55. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. There are two extra sentences which you do not need to use.
(51) … Creative genius is, in fact, latent with many of us without our realizing it. But how far do we need to travel to find the path to creativity? For many people, it is a long way. In our everyday lives, we have to perform many acts out of habit to survive, like door opening, shaving, getting dressed, walking to work, and so on. If this were not the case, we would, in all probability, become mentally unhinged. So strongly ingrained are our habits, though this varies from person to person, that, sometimes, when a conscious effort is made to be creative, automatic response takes over. We may try, for example, to walk to work following a different route, but end up on our usual path. By then, it is too late to go back and change our minds. Another day, perhaps. This applies to all other areas of our lives. When we are solving problems, for example, we may seek different answers, but, as often as not, find ourselves walking along the same well-trodden paths.
So, for many people, their actions and behavior are set in immovable blocks, their minds clogged with the cholesterol of habitual actions, preventing them from operating freely, and thereby stifling creation.
(52) … the obsessive desire to give order to the world is a case in point. Witness people's attitude to time, social customs and the panoply of rules and regulations by which the human mind is now circumscribed.
The groundwork for keeping creative ability in check begins at school. School, later university and work teach us to regulate our lives, imposing a continuous process of restrictions, which is increasing exponentially with the advancement of technology. Is it surprising then that creative ability appears to be so rare? It is trapped in the prison that we have erected. Yet, even here in this hostile environment, the foundations for creativity are being laid, because setting off on the creative path is also partly about using rules and regulations. (53) …
The truly creative mind is often seen as totally free and unfettered. But a better Image is of a mind, which can be free when it wants, and one that recognizes that rules and regulations are parameters. or barriers, to be raised and dropped again at will. An example of how the human mind can be trained to be creative might help here. People's minds are just like tense muscles that need to be freed up and the potential unlocked. One strategy is to erect artificial barriers or hurdles in solving a problem. As a form of stimulation, the participants in the task can be forbidden to use particular solutions or to follow certain lines of thought to solve a problem. In this way, they are obliged to explore unfamiliar territory, which may lead to some startling discoveries. (54) … There is also an element of fear involved, however subliminal, as deviating from the safety of one's own thought patterns is very much akin to madness. But, open Pandora's box, and a whole new world unfolds before your very eyes.
(55) … Parameters act as containers for ideas, and thus help the mind to fix on them. When the mind is thinking laterally, and two ideas from different areas of the brain come or are brought together, they form a new idea, just like atoms floating around and then forming a molecule. Once the idea has been formed, it needs to be contained or it will flyaway, so fleeting is its passage. The mind needs to hold it in place for a time so that it can recognize it or call on it again. And then, the parameters can act as channels along which the ideas can flow, develop, and expand. When the mind has brought the idea to fruition by thinking it through to its final conclusion, the parameters can be brought down and the idea allowed to float off and come in contact with other ideas.
A. Such limitations are needed so that once they are learnt, they can be broken
B. Unfortunately, the difficulty in this exercise, and with creation itself, is convincing people that creation is
possible, shrouded as it is in so much myth and legend
C. Unfortunately, mankind's very struggle for survival has become a tyranny
D. Creativity brings people success and wealth
E. It is a myth that creative people are born with their talents : gifts from God or nature lifting barriers into place
also plays a major part in helping the mind to control ideas rather than letting them collide at random
F. People's habits are formed to prevent creativity
Questions 56 - 60: Choose the best answer (A, B, C, or D) to each of the following questions and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
56. Which of the following could best serve as the title for the passage?
A. Creative People and Their Success C. The Creation Myth
B. Habit - An Obstacle to Creativity D. Ways to Improve Creativity
57. According to the author, creativity is ………..
A. a gift from God or nature C. difficult for many people to achieve
B. an automatic response D. a well-trodden path
58. According to the author, ………….
A. the human race's fight to live is creating tyrannies C. the human race is now circumscribed by talents
B. the human brain is blocked with cholesterol D. the human race's fight to survive stifles creativity
59. Technology advancement ………….
A. holds creativity C. produces hostile environment
B. improves creativity D. is a tyranny
60. According to the author, creativity ………..
A. gains popularity C. forms obsessive desire
B. creates good habits D. becomes a rare commodity
Questions 61 - 65: Do the statements below agree with the Information In the reading passage?
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
Y if the statement agrees with the information in the passage,
N if the statement contradicts the information in the passage, or
NG if there is no information about the statement in the passage.
61. Rules and regulations are examples of parameters.
62. The truly creative mind is associated with the need for free speech.
63. One problem with creativity is that people think it is impossible.
64. Creativity is not affected by habits.
65. Parameters help the mind by holding ideas and helping them to develop.
(51) … Creative genius is, in fact, latent with many of us without our realizing it. But how far do we need to travel to find the path to creativity? For many people, it is a long way. In our everyday lives, we have to perform many acts out of habit to survive, like door opening, shaving, getting dressed, walking to work, and so on. If this were not the case, we would, in all probability, become mentally unhinged. So strongly ingrained are our habits, though this varies from person to person, that, sometimes, when a conscious effort is made to be creative, automatic response takes over. We may try, for example, to walk to work following a different route, but end up on our usual path. By then, it is too late to go back and change our minds. Another day, perhaps. This applies to all other areas of our lives. When we are solving problems, for example, we may seek different answers, but, as often as not, find ourselves walking along the same well-trodden paths.
So, for many people, their actions and behavior are set in immovable blocks, their minds clogged with the cholesterol of habitual actions, preventing them from operating freely, and thereby stifling creation.
(52) … the obsessive desire to give order to the world is a case in point. Witness people's attitude to time, social customs and the panoply of rules and regulations by which the human mind is now circumscribed.
The groundwork for keeping creative ability in check begins at school. School, later university and work teach us to regulate our lives, imposing a continuous process of restrictions, which is increasing exponentially with the advancement of technology. Is it surprising then that creative ability appears to be so rare? It is trapped in the prison that we have erected. Yet, even here in this hostile environment, the foundations for creativity are being laid, because setting off on the creative path is also partly about using rules and regulations. (53) …
The truly creative mind is often seen as totally free and unfettered. But a better Image is of a mind, which can be free when it wants, and one that recognizes that rules and regulations are parameters. or barriers, to be raised and dropped again at will. An example of how the human mind can be trained to be creative might help here. People's minds are just like tense muscles that need to be freed up and the potential unlocked. One strategy is to erect artificial barriers or hurdles in solving a problem. As a form of stimulation, the participants in the task can be forbidden to use particular solutions or to follow certain lines of thought to solve a problem. In this way, they are obliged to explore unfamiliar territory, which may lead to some startling discoveries. (54) … There is also an element of fear involved, however subliminal, as deviating from the safety of one's own thought patterns is very much akin to madness. But, open Pandora's box, and a whole new world unfolds before your very eyes.
(55) … Parameters act as containers for ideas, and thus help the mind to fix on them. When the mind is thinking laterally, and two ideas from different areas of the brain come or are brought together, they form a new idea, just like atoms floating around and then forming a molecule. Once the idea has been formed, it needs to be contained or it will flyaway, so fleeting is its passage. The mind needs to hold it in place for a time so that it can recognize it or call on it again. And then, the parameters can act as channels along which the ideas can flow, develop, and expand. When the mind has brought the idea to fruition by thinking it through to its final conclusion, the parameters can be brought down and the idea allowed to float off and come in contact with other ideas.
A. Such limitations are needed so that once they are learnt, they can be broken
B. Unfortunately, the difficulty in this exercise, and with creation itself, is convincing people that creation is
possible, shrouded as it is in so much myth and legend
C. Unfortunately, mankind's very struggle for survival has become a tyranny
D. Creativity brings people success and wealth
E. It is a myth that creative people are born with their talents : gifts from God or nature lifting barriers into place
also plays a major part in helping the mind to control ideas rather than letting them collide at random
F. People's habits are formed to prevent creativity
Questions 56 - 60: Choose the best answer (A, B, C, or D) to each of the following questions and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
56. Which of the following could best serve as the title for the passage?
A. Creative People and Their Success C. The Creation Myth
B. Habit - An Obstacle to Creativity D. Ways to Improve Creativity
57. According to the author, creativity is ………..
A. a gift from God or nature C. difficult for many people to achieve
B. an automatic response D. a well-trodden path
58. According to the author, ………….
A. the human race's fight to live is creating tyrannies C. the human race is now circumscribed by talents
B. the human brain is blocked with cholesterol D. the human race's fight to survive stifles creativity
59. Technology advancement ………….
A. holds creativity C. produces hostile environment
B. improves creativity D. is a tyranny
60. According to the author, creativity ………..
A. gains popularity C. forms obsessive desire
B. creates good habits D. becomes a rare commodity
Questions 61 - 65: Do the statements below agree with the Information In the reading passage?
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
Y if the statement agrees with the information in the passage,
N if the statement contradicts the information in the passage, or
NG if there is no information about the statement in the passage.
61. Rules and regulations are examples of parameters.
62. The truly creative mind is associated with the need for free speech.
63. One problem with creativity is that people think it is impossible.
64. Creativity is not affected by habits.
65. Parameters help the mind by holding ideas and helping them to develop.