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explains Destin. This involves feeling ready and able to take appropriate action when ___47___ difficulty.
In two almost identical laboratory experiments—one involving 93 female students, the other 185 students（including 101 women）-- participants were first asked either to write about their past or their future ___48___. After their deep thoughts, the participants were filmed during an limited interview with a so-called lecturer, and then had to ___49___ a difficult academic test. The research team noted whether participants’ body language was bold and confident, and measured the amount of effort participants’ ___50___ the academic test.
The results were in agreement with the theory of identity – based motivation. Destin and his team found that having a successful future identity can prevent especially female students from lower SES backgrounds from ___51___ during challenging academic situations. Specially, lower SES women who wrote about their future identities displayed greater action ___52___ compared to those who considered their past. They showed more confident body language. It helped them to make more effort to tackle the test, and had an indirect effect on their ___53___.
“Simulating imagined successful future identities appears to provide a ___54___ pathway to enable weak students to effectively navigate everyday stressors,”says Destin.“The findings ___55___ suggest that certain students may benefit from strategies that remind them to image their successful futures before any difficult and important task that they might otherwise be likely to avoid.”
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41. A. instruction 42. A. disgraceful 43. A. hesitation 44. A. willingness 45. A. destroy
B. strategy B. shameful B. intention B. options
C. challenge C. harmful C. depression C. responses
D. psychology D. stressful
D. decision
D. applications
D. substitute D. ambitious D.
B. imagine
C. abandon
46. A. powerful 47. A. avoiding encountering 48. A. experience 49. A. design
B. upright C. unique
B. overcoming C. surrendering
B. suffering B. complete B. put on
C. success
D. failure D. revise
D. put
C. comment
C. put out
50. A. put away into
51. A. withdrawing 52. A. quantity
B. transforming B. dullness
C. advancing C. readiness
D. engaging D. inability
53. A. fascination 54. A. tolerable 55. A. therefore
Section B
B. ignorance B. potential B. however
C. dilemma C. straight
D. performance D. academic D. meanwhile
C. otherwise
Directions：Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the
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passage you have just read.
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I believe in getting lost. Lost in the text of the novel that is particular to your thoughts and feelings that you consider special. The song that reminds you of your childhood summers, where you close your eyes and lose yourself reliving a memory; feeling the warm wind brushing against your arm, the smell of the dusty sand that you stir up as you ride your bicycle, murmuring the tune of that song. Like the unprepared Sunday Drive, with no destination. You’re free to wander, take paths that you’ve never noticed, discover places you haven’t been. Then falling off on the path to lead you back home, leaving you to test directions and alertly absorb your surroundings in order to find your way back; that kind of lost.
I get lost daily, whether it’s in thought, or the unplanned drive I just decided to go on. Getting lost is an adventurous learning experience that trains you how to be more aware of your surroundings. A few of my most favorite memories involve physically getting lost. That one late night trip back to Ludington from Grand Rapids I took with a few friends. We finally realized we were going the wrong way when we hit South Haven, almost three hours out of our way. There was also the time where I got lost in the De Vos Place in Grand Rapids after the President’s Ball and then the parking garage for a solid two hours. I felt like my life was that one scene of an American television situation comedy, minus the air conditioner. At the time, these are nervous experiences that get your anxiety pumping. You’re fearful that you won’t be safe, but it always works itself out in the end.
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Physically losing yourself prepares you for how you manage when you emotionally or mentally lose yourself.
You don’t always have to be lost in a literal sense to“get lost”and some of the time, losing yourself may not be a positive experience. There are times where I lose sight of who I am. While lost, I test our metaphorical paths and sometimes they turn out to be the right direction and other times they were a wrong turn. I make note of these wrong turns, so I can avoid them further on up the road of finding my way back to who I am. In Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”Getting lost fuels my curiosity and teaches me lessons on finding my way back to the right track. I believe in getting lost through day dreams, a misplacement, adventures, and difficult times where you make discoveries about yourself and the atmosphere around you. In order to truly find yourself, I believe that you should put down the map and get wonderfully lost.
56. In the first paragraph, the author mainly expresses that ______. A. lost in a novel is a special feeling
B. songs remind us of past experiences D. getting lost brings us benefits
C. wandering is a wonderful discovery
57. The author mentions the experiences of physically getting lost（in paragraph 2）in order to say _______.
A. physically getting lost is most difficult to deal with B. we can enjoy trips while physically getting lost
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