题目内容
If you asked high school girls to name their favorite sports, most would probably say basketball or volleyball. I happen to be one of the few girls who would 1 :surfing(冲浪运动). But isn’t that a boy thing? Some people 2 . Most certainly not.
I started surfing about five years ago and 3 in love with the sport on the very first day. Riding that first 4 was the best feeling I had ever experienced.
When I try to 5 surfing with other things, I find it very difficult because, in my
6 there’s nothing like it. It involves(牵涉到)body, 7 , and soul. There’s sand between my toes and cool, salt water all 8 us. The feeling I get when I’m surfing across that 9 , becoming one with the 10 , is like I’m weightless.
The one thing I can 11 from surfing and not any other sport is endless challenge(挑战). You can never be the “best surfer” because the ocean 12 an uncountable variety of waves that nobody can ever master. The variations of surfing styles are wonderful. Some surfers are free and flowing; others are very aggressive(活跃有力的)and 13 . All of these things attract me to surfing and make it 14 from any other sport.
I’ve 15 to tell every girl I know to do something that people don’t think girls can do. It's part of being human to advance to new 16 , so shouldn't it be expected that girls should step up and start 17 the limits of things boys and men used to dominate(主宰)?
There’re women 18 side by side with the President of our country, so why not side by side with the boys 19 the football team or out in the water surfing? Give girls a chance to 20 , and they will.
1. A. tell B. answer
C. give D. realize
2.
A. wonder B.
understand
C. reply
D.
believe
3. A. stayed B. came
C. dropped D. fell
4. A. wave B. storm
C. sail D. boat
5. A. bring B. connect
C. compare D. tie
6. A. work B. study
C. holiday D. life
7. A. mind B. effort
C. health D. time
8. A. along B. above
C. around D. by
9. A. beach B. water
C. board D. lake
10. A. sky B. world
C. earth D. ocean
11. A. take B. get
C. make D. keep
12. A. catches B. includes
C. offers D. collects
13. A. sharp B. great
C. hard D. calm
14. A. known B. right
C. far D. different
15. A. chosen B. tried
C. learned D. promised
16. A. levels B. points
C. steps D. parts
17. A. reaching B. accepting
C. pushing D. setting
18. A. sitting B. walking
C. fighting D. working
19. A. of B. from
C. on D. with
20. A. think B. succeed
C. perform D. feel
提示:
1. B 根据上下文,这里应该是回答。 2. A 一些人想知道。 3. D fall in love爱上。 4. A 由于文章讲的是冲浪,所以选择A。 5. C 把冲浪与其他作比较。 6. D 在我的生活中。 7. A 牵涉到身体,时间... 8. C 在我们周围。 9. B 从水上过去。 10. D 海洋,比sea大。 11. B 从冲浪中获得的... 12. C 海洋提供了.. 13. A 根据上下文意思应该选择A。 14. D different from与...不同。 15. B 根据上下文意思应选择B。 16. A 达到一个新水平。 17. C 根据上下文意思应选择B。 18. D 现在分词做定语。 19. C 足球队的男孩们。 20. B 成功的机会。
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If you ask me, I would say that I won’t mind ______abroad to enrich my knowledge.
A.taking | B.to take | C.to be taken | D.being taken |
If you ask Americans whether or not they think their former president George W. Bush is smart, most of them will probably tell you they don’t think so. However, Bush’s IQ score is estimated to be above 120, which puts him in the top ten percent of the population.
It doesn’t seem to make sense. How come someone with such an IQ score is not considered smart? Researchers say: IQ does not tell the whole story. Some people have high IQ scores, but still they can be poor thinkers and decision-makers.
Keith Stanovich, a Canadian professor of human development and applied psychology, has been looking into the “clever fools” phenomenon for 15 years. He says IQ tests are very good at measuring certain mental faculties(能力), including logic, learning ability, working-memory capacity (how much information you can hold in mind), etc. Those faculties play a part in one’s academic success, but rational thinking is more important for us to make good judgments in real-life situations.
IQ tests fail to work when it comes to rational thinking. That’s because they are unable to assess things such as a person’s ability to weigh up information, or whether an individual can set aside the cognitive biases(认知偏差)that may be misleading.
“A high IQ is like height in a basketball player,” says David Perkins, who studies thinking and reasoning skills at Harvard University. “It is very important, all other things being equal. But all other things aren’t equal. It takes a lot more to be a good basketball player than being tall, and it takes a lot more to be a good thinker than having a high IQ.”
1.According to the text your academic success depends on your __________.
A.logic |
B.mental faculties |
C.learning ability |
D.working-memory capacity |
2.If you need to decide where to invest your money, you must use your ______________
A.IQ scores |
B.IQ test |
C.rational thinking |
D.cognitive biases |
3.We know from the text that ____________
A.the former president George W. Bush has a high IQ score |
B.many Americans think their former president George W. Bush is smart |
C.David Perkins believe that a person’s IQ doesn’t need to be developed |
D.Keith Stanovich looked into the “clever fools” phenomenon 5 years ago |
4.What is the text mainly about?
A.Those who have high IQ do better than those who don’t in everything. |
B.People with high IQ scores must be good decision-makers |
C.People with high IQ scores are always smart in every way. |
D.Why a high IQ doesn’t mean you’re smart |