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Questions 26-30It is often remarked that, since the 1960s, the speed and processing power of computers has grownexponentially. But exponential growth has long been a fact of life for many types of technological,cultural and social change, and it has reached a point where even the calmest among us might 26 .In politics, we now have to cope with more scandals in a single year than we used to encounter in alifetime. Our elections are being interfered with. Our news sources have come into question. As oneobserver said, “the world has become an insane asylum.” Meanwhile, in the field of science,researchers are overwhelmed by something more constructive, the more than three million newjournal articles each year. In personal technology, we must all learn to navigate a landscape in whichthe number of websites has been doubling every two to three years, and the way we use and accessthem is subject to frequent “disruptive change.” More importantly, social attitudes are changing justas fast—compare the pace of the civil rights movement to the “me too” campaign that swept the worldovernight.The 27 of businesses to adapt has led to the quick demise of countless companies, and majorpower shifts in industries from taxis to hospitality. But we must adapt to thrive in our personal lives,too. We have to be willing to rise above conventional mindsets, to reframe the questions we ask, and28 . We have to rely as much on our imagination as on logic, and have the ability to generate and integrate a wide variety of ideas, to welcome experiment, and be tolerant of failure. This manner ofthought is called “elastic thinking,” 29 rational or logical thought.Rational/logical thought is an analysis that can be described by an algorithm of the kind thatcomputers follow. Elastic thought cannot. We evolved the capacity for the former in order to help usface the everyday challenges of life. We evolved the latter to help us succeed when circumstanceschange—which is why it is increasingly important to 30 today. Elastic thought is where your newideas come from. Imaginative, original, and non-linear, it is “bottom-up” thinking. Logical thoughtcan determine how to drive from your home to the grocery store most efficiently, but it’s elasticthought that gave us the automobile.
26.
(A) jump to conclusion
(B) stop worrying
(C) start to feel dizzy
(D) decide to move on
(E) call it to mind

參考答案

答案：C
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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