单选题 From James Moriarty to Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the idea of the evil genius has been a staple of storytelling. But is it true? Or, to put the matter less starkly, is there a connection between creativity and dishonesty in real people who are not bent on world domination, as well as in fictional supervillains? Writing in Psychological Science, Francesca Gino of Harvard University and Scott Wiltermuth of the University of Southern California suggest that there is—and that cheating actually increases creativity. Dr Gino and Dr Wiltermuth tested the honesty of 153 volunteers with a task that involved adding up numbers for a cash reward, which was presented in a way that seemed to them to allow them to cheat undetected(though the researchers knew when they did). This was sandwiched between two tests for creativity, one of which was to work out how to fix a candle to a cardboard wall with a box of drawing pins, and the other a word-association test. This combination showed not only that creative people cheat more, but also that cheating seems to encourage creativity—for those who cheated in the adding-up test were even better at word association than their candle-test results predicted. That result was confirmed by a second set of experiments, in which some people were given many opportunities to cheat and others few. The crucial predictor of creativity, the researchers confirmed, was the actual amount of cheating, not any propensity to cheat. A third experiment tested the idea that this is because both creativity and dishonesty require, as it were, a flexible attitude to rules. In this experiment volunteers were asked about their attitude to bossy signs, such as "no cycling" and "no diving" notices, after being allowed to cheat(again, in a way transparent to the experimenters)on a coin-tossing test. Cheats, it turned out, were less constrained to obey such signs. It is, it goes without saying, a long way from such acts of petty defiance to building a lair inside an extinct volcano and threatening Washington from it—or even to non-fictional acts of serious crime. But some sort of link exists, so this research does indeed suggest that Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming were on to something .

单选题 What can be concluded from the passage about James Moriarty and Ernst Stavro Blofeld?

单选题 Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined phrase "were on to something" in the last paragraph?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：语义题。划线短语出现的原句内容为“But some sort of link exists，so this research doesindeed suggest that Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming were on to something”即但是一些关联还是存在的，所以这项研究确实证明阿瑟·柯南·道尔和伊恩．弗莱明(即莫里亚蒂和布鲁弗两个书中人物的创作者)还是发现了一些东西的。因为前面的例子说明了欺骗与创造力之间的关系，因而该句也是在说两位作家创作出的人物形象也恰恰体现出了这一点，所以两位作家是认识到了这一联系的，意为他们也“意识到了这一本质”。故选D。

单选题 Which of the following describes the sequence of Dr Gino and Dr Wiltermuth's research?

单选题 What does the underlined words "the other" in Paragraph 2 refer to?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：指代题。根据文章第二段第二句“This was sandwiched between two tests for creativity，oneof which was to work out how to fix a candle to a cardboard wall with a box of drawing pins，and the other a word—association test．”即统计现款奖金的数量测试是夹在两个创造力测试之间的，其中一个测试是如何用一盒图钉将蜡烛固定在纸板墙上面，另一个测试是文字联想测试。由此可知，“the other”是指测试。故选B。