2024年6月英语六级听力真题 卷一 文章2

Passage Two

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Believe it or not, human creativity benefits from constraints.

信不信由你，人类的创造力从约束中获益。

According to psychologists, when you have less to work with, you actually begin to see the world differently.

心理学家认为，当你能做的事少了，你实际上会开始用不同的眼光看待这个世界。

With constraints, you dedicate your mental energy to acting more resourcefully. When challenged, you figure out new ways to be better.

在受到约束的情况下，你会把你的精神能量投入到更加机智的行动中。当遇到挑战时，你会想出新的方法来变得更好。

The most successful creative people know that constraints give their minds the impetus to leap higher.

最成功的创意人士都知道，限制会给他们的头脑带来跳跃的动力。

People who invent new products are not limited by what they don't have or can't do. They leverage their limitations to push themselves even further.

发明新产品的人不受他们没有或不能做什么的限制。他们利用自身的局限性进一步推动自己。

Many products and services are created because the founders saw a limitation in what they use.

许多产品和服务的创造，都是因为创始人看到了他们所使用的东西的局限性。

They created innovation based on what was not working for them at the moment.

他们在目前对他们不起作用的方面创造了创新。

Innovation is a creative person's response to limitation.

创新是一个有创造力的人对局限性的反应。

In a 2015 study which examined how thinking about scarcity or abundance influences how creatively people use their resources, Ravi Mehta at the University of Illinois and Meng Zhu at Johns Hopkins University found that people simply have no incentive to use what's available to them in novel ways.

在2015年的一项研究中，伊利诺伊州大学的拉维·梅塔和约翰·霍普金斯大学的孟·朱发现，人们根本没有动机以新颖的方式使用现有资源。

When people face scarcity, they give themselves the freedom to use resources in less conventional ways because they have to.

当人们面对稀缺时，他们给自己以不那么传统的方式使用资源的自由，因为他们不得不这样做。

Obstacles can broaden your perception and open up your thinking processes.

障碍可以拓宽你的认知，打开你的思维过程。

Consistent constraints help you improve the connecting unrelated ideas and concepts.

一致的约束可以帮助您改进连接不相关的想法和概念。

Marissa Meyer, former vice president for search products and user experience at Google, once wrote in a publication on Bloomberg, “Constraints shape and focus problems and provide clear challenges to overcome; creativity thrives best when constrained.”

谷歌（Google）前搜索产品和用户体验副总裁玛丽莎·迈耶（Marissa Meyer）曾在彭博社（Bloomberg）的一份出版物中写道，“约束塑造并聚焦问题，并提供需要克服的明确挑战；当约束时，创造力最能茁壮成长。”

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.

问题12到15是基于你刚刚听到的这篇文章。

Question12. What do psychologists say people do when they are short of resources?

心理学家说，当人们缺乏资源时，他们会怎么做?

Question13.What does the passage say about innovation?

关于创新，这篇文章说了什么?

Question14.What did a 2015 study by Ravi Mehta and Meng Zhu find?

2015年拉维·梅塔和朱蒙的一项研究发现了什么?

Question15.What did Marissa Meyer once write concerning creativity?

关于创造力，玛丽莎·梅耶尔曾经写过什么?

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