Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word. Fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.A “Growth Mindset” Can Lead to Success
The most successful people are fond of telling us about their passion for their professions. And passion has been believed to be essential to not only their success, but also their happiness.
Unfortunately, 【小题1】 some people have a clear “calling” from a young age, many still leave education without knowing their vocation in life. They may spend their whole life without having ever discovered a career that truly 【小题2】 (interest) them. In the past ten years, the researcher 【小题3】 (demonstrate) that some people tend to see their abilities as “fixed”—they believe that they are either born with a talent for something or they don’t have it completely. What can they do?
Some answers come from the work of Paul O’Keefe. In his mindset theory, the most basic foundation of passion is having an intense interest in 【小题4】 you’re doing. Meanwhile, people also have the capacity to cultivate new interests outside their normal fields. 【小题5】 (consider) arts students looking at a piece about science, or “techy” students reading an article on literary criticism(文学评论). 【小题6】 the students have very little initial curiosity about the subject, with the growth mindset, they will change their ratings of the interest in that new subject after reading the piece.
In addition, a person’s mindset can also determine how long they would be interested in more difficult content and 【小题7】 they would plan to deal with the content or not. In one experiment, after 【小题8】(show) a video about black holes, people had to read a challenging academic paper on the subject. The people with the growth mindset maintained their interest: they were 【小题9】 (willing) to know about the black holes despite the difficulties of grasping the technical material. By contrast, the flame of interest quickly burnt out in those with the fixed mindset. “Within the span of seven minutes they went from saying ‘this is fascinating’ 【小题10】saying ‘no, I’m done,’” says O’Keefe.