1 . The way Jason Momoa describes Hawaii’s beloved inactive volcano, Mauna Kea, makes you understand why it’s considered sacred(神圣的).
"It’s kind of the umbilical cord(脐带) to earth," the actor tells CNN. "You know, if you think about the Hawaiian islands, that’s the biggest mountain in the world, right? All the way up. So Mauna Kea is the most sacred. We call it the belly button, too. That’s like our birthplace. That’s how our islands were formed. So how can that not be sacred?"
He would know. Jason, a native of Hawaii, has had a near-constant presence there when he’s not working, fighting with local protestors to stop the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, or TMT, which would drill directly into the mountain and invade its precious water supply. So far, protestors have successfully blocked the only road crews seeking to go up the mountain in order to build the billion-dollar observatory.
"It started in 2015. What’s happening over there was just not right," Jason says. "And I went over there to meet with everyone to bring the point to the world." Jason joins the protests when he can. He cared so deeply about the preservation of the land that when he had spare time to lend his support, he was there. "You also have to remember, that’s our water source. So having an 18-story building built on top of the tallest mountain from the sea level on our water level is terrible."
The Game of Thrones star says he feels the movement is working and describing his part in it as a calling to do what he feels right in his soul. "There’s massive progress that’s bringing our people together," he says, adding, "I think there are a lot of problems in Hawaii. There are a lot of things that have happened in our history, a lot of injustice, and so we’re shining a light on it. People like myself or Dwayne Johnson, Bruno Mars are trying to spread the concern all around the world. For my soul I need to be there."
1. Why is Mauna Kea sacred according to Jason?
| A．It’s still growing upwards. | B．It looks like the belly button. |
| C．It’s the birthplace of Humans. | D．It brings the islands into being. |
| A．The project of building TMT. | B．The event of blocking the road crews. |
| C．The shooting of Game of Thrones. | D．The movement of preserving the land. |
| A．Bringing Hawaiian people together. | B．Witnessing the history of Hawaii. |
| C．Bringing Hawaii problems into focus. | D．Making Mauna Kea better-known. |
| A．Travel. | B．Celebrity. |
| C．Culture. | D．Technology. |
2 . Anecdotal evidence has long held that creativity in artists and writers can be associated with living in foreign parts. Rudyard Kipling, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Gauguin, Samuel Beckett and others spent years living abroad. Now a pair of psychologist has proven that there is indeed a link.
As they report in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, William Maddux of INSEAD, a business school in Fontainebleau, France, and Adam Galinsky, of the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago, presented 155 American business students and 55 foreign ones studying in America with a test used by psychologists as a measure of creativity Given a candle, some matches and a box of drawing pins, the students were asked to attach the candle to a cardboard wall so that no wax would drip on the floor when the candle was lit. (The solution is to use the box as a candleholder and fix it to the wall with the pin.) They found 60% of the students who were either living abroad or had spent some time doing so, solved the problem, whereas only 42% of those who had not lived abroad did so.
A follow-up study with 72 Americans and 36 foreigners explored their creative negotiating skills. Pairs of students were asked to play the role of seller of a petrol station who then needed to get a job and a buyer who would need to hire staff to run the business. The two were likely to reach a deadlock because the buyer had been told he could not afford what the seller was told was his minimum price. Nevertheless, when both negotiators had lived abroad 70 % struck a deal in which the seller was offered a management job at the petrol station in return for a lower asking price. When neither of the negotiators had lived abroad, none was able to reach a deal.
Merely travelling abroad, however, was not enough. You do have to live there. Packing your beach towel and suntan lotion will not, by itself make you Hemingway.
1. What is the purpose of mentioning the famous names in the opening paragraph?| A．To show the relationship between creativity and living abroad. |
| B．To indicate the link between artistic creation and life experience. |
| C．To emphasize how great these artists are. |
| D．To impress the importance of creativity. |
| A．William Maddux and Adam Galinsky have carefully designed the test. |
| B．Negotiators who had lived abroad are more flexible in negotiating. |
| C．American business students are less creative than those oversea students. |
| D．One's creativity is associated with the length one has spent abroad. |
| A．There exist sharp differences between travelling and living abroad. |
| B．You shouldn't lie on the beach when travelling. |
| C．Only real experience of living abroad can help drive creativity. |
| D．Living abroad is more meaningful than just travelling abroad. |
| A．A diary. | B．A magazine. |
| C．A novel. | D．A guidebook. |
