Contrary to what many people believe, highly intelligent chi..

第1题

Passage Two

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

Contrary to what many people believe, highly intelligent children are not necessarily bound to have an academic success. In fact, so-called gifted students may fail to do well because they are unusually smart. Ensuring that a gifted child reaches his or her potential requires an understanding of what can go wrong and how to satisfy the unusual learning requirements of extremely bright young people.

One common problem gifted kids face is that they, and those around them, place too much importance on being smart. Such an emphasis can breed a belief that bright people do not have to work hard to do well. Although smart kids may not need to work hard in the lower grades when the work is easy, they may struggle and perform. poorly when the work gets harder because they do not make the effort to learn. In some cases, they may not know how to study, having never done it before. In others, they simply cannot accept the fact that some tasks require effort.

If the scholastic achievement of highly intelligent children remains below average for an extended period, many teachers will fail to recognize their potential. As a result, such students may not get the encouragement they need, and may further be depressed to learn. They may fall far behind in their schoolwork and even develop behavior. problems. Boys may turn aggressive or become class clowns(小丑).Girls often develop performance anxiety and other symptoms such as stomachaches.

One way to avoid such difficulties is to recognize that IQ is just one of the elements for success. Children do well or struggle in school for a host of reasons apart from IQ, according to psychologist Franz Monks of the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. These include motivation and persistence, social competence, and the support of family, educators and friends. Emphasizing the importance of persistence and hard work, for example, will help a child avoid the laziness trap. Gifted children also need intellectual challenges-to teach them how to work hard.

26.According to the first paragraph, the author believes that _.

A.intelligent students may fail to do well in their schoolwork

B.gifted students are too smart to do well in their schoolwork

C.intelligent students are bound to succeed in their schoolwork

D.gifted students understand what can go wrong and how to learn

When too much emphasis is placed on students' intelligence, people are likely to take it for granted that _.A.smart students may not do well in the lower grades

B.intelligent students know how to avoid laziness trap

C.clever students require more intelligence than hard work

D.bright students may succeed even if they do not work hard

It is observed in the third paragraph that _.A.highly gifted students show a great desire to learn

B.highly gifted students tend to fall ill with no reason

C.highly intelligent students also need encouragement

D.highly intelligent students score higher than average students

According to the author, a student's IQ is _.A.one of the factors of success

B.the only factor for his success

C.directly related to persistence

D.closely associated with competence

This passage aims to tell people about _.A.the academic performance of gifted students

B.the proper attitudes toward gifted students

C.the difficulties in recognizing gifted students

D.the motivation students need for their studies

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第2题

【单选题】Nike, Apple, Pepsi and Ford are famous American _____.

A、names

B、marks

C、logos

D、brands

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第3题

Passage one

The factors that add up to a happy life for most people are not what we typically hear about. Things like earning a master’s degree don’t make people happy over an extended period of time. Rather, the key to happiness, and the difference between happy and unhappy Americans, is a life that reflects values and practices like, hard work, marriage, charity, and freedom.

Work

When more than 1,000 people across the country were asked in 2002, "If you were to get enough money to live comfortably for the rest of your life, would you stop working？" fewer than a third of the Americans answered yes. Contrary to widely held opinion, most Americans like or even love their work. In 2002 an amazing 89 percent of workers said they were very satisfied or somewhat satisfied with their jobs. This isn&39;t true just for those with high-paying, highly skilled jobs but for all workers across the country. And the percentage is almost exactly the same among those with and without college degrees and among those working for private companies, nonprofit organizations, and the government. For most Americans, job satisfaction is nearly equivalent to life satisfaction. Among those people who say they are very happy in their lives, 95 percent are also satisfied with their jobs. Furthermore, job satisfaction would seem to be causing overall happiness, not the other way around.

Marriage & Family

In 2004, 42 percent of married Americans said they were very happy. Just 23 percent of never-married people said this. Overall, married people were six times more likely lo say that they were very happy than to report that they were not too happy. And generally speaking, married women say they&39;re happy more often than married men.

Marriage isn’t just associated with happiness --it brings happiness, at least for a lot of us. One 2003 study that followed 24,000 people for more than a decade documented a significant increase in happiness after people married. For some, the happiness increase wore off in a few years, and they ended up back at their premarriage happiness levels. But for others, it lasted as long as a lifetime. What about having kids？ While children, on their own, don&39;t appear to raise the happiness level (they actually tend to slightly lower the happiness of a marriage), studies suggest that children arc almost always part of an overall lifestyle. of happiness, which is likely to include such things as marriage and religion. Charity We&39;ve all heard that money doesn&39;t buy happiness, and that’s certainly true. But there is one way to get it: Give money away.

The evidence is clear that gifts to charitable organizations and other worthy causes bring substantial life satisfaction to the givers. If you want $50 in authentic happiness today Just donate it to a favorite charity. People who give money to charity are 43 percent more likely than nongivers to say they&39;re very happy. Volunteers are 42 percent more likely to be very happy than nonvolunteers. It doesn’t matter whether the gifts of money go to churches or concerts; religious giving and unreligious giving leave people equally happy, and far happier than people who don&39;t give. Even donating blood, an especially personal kind of giving, improves our attitude. Fundamentally, the more people give, the happier they get.

Freedom

In fact, freedom and happiness are intimately related: People who consider themselves free are a lot happier than those who don&39;t. In 2000 the General Social Survey revealed that people who personally feel "completely free" or "very free” were twice as likely as those who don&39;t to say they’re very happy about their lives. Not all types of freedom are the same in terms of happiness, however. Researchers have shown that economic freedom brings happiness, as does political and religious freedom. On the other hand, moral freedom ----a lack of constraints on behavior. ----does not. People who feel they have unlimited moral choices in their lives when it comes to matters of sex or drugs, for example, tend to be unhappier than those who do not feel they have so many choices in life.

Lessons for America

The data tell us that what matters most for happiness is not having a lot of things but having healthy values. Without these values，our jobs and our economy will bring us joyless riches. The facts can help remind us of what we should be paying attention to, as individuals and as families, if we want to be happy. Our happiness is simply too important to us -- and to America -- to do anything less.

What will probably bring about overall happiness？

A.To be satisfied with one’s job.

B.To earn a lot of money.

C.To work for big companies.

D.To gain a college degree.

Generally, men in marriage _____ than women in marriage.A.are probably under greater pressure

B.are more inclined to feel they are happy

C.are less likely to state they arc happy

D.are contributing more to the family

According to the author, in what way can money bring happiness？A.Buy anything you want.

B.Give your money away.

C.Pay to listen to a concert.

D.Own a large amount of it.

What rarely brings in happiness？A.Religious freedom.

B.Economic freedom.

C.Political freedom.

D.Moral freedom.

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More than 10 percent of the British people are RP speakers.

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What is communicated by the way in which the message is organized in terms of order and emphasis is what Leech recognizes as ____________ meaning.

A、connotative

B、thematic

C、collocative

D、social

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第6题

全家人都同意去澳大利亚过新年。

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--What is your eldest sister like?-- ______________.A.She is happyB.She is illC.She is

--What is your eldest sister like?

-- ______________.

A.She is happy

B.She is ill

C.She is tall

D.She is at home

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第8题

It's an interesting old document but there are a lot of words I can't _____.

A.pick out

B.fill out

C.make out

D.look out

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