题目内容
Everyone knows about straight-A students. We see them frequently in TV situation comedies and in movies like Revenge (报复) of the Nerds. They get high grades, all right, but only by becoming dull laborers, their noses always stuck in a book. They are not good at social communication and look clumsy while doing sports.
How, then, do we account for Domenica Roman or Paul Melendres? Roman is on the tennis team at Fairmont Senior High School. She also sings in the choral group, serves on the student council and is a member of the mathematics society. For two years she has maintained A’s in every subject. Melendres, a freshman at the University of New Mexico, was student-body president at Valley High School in Albuquerque. He played soccer and basketball well, exhibited at the science fair, and meanwhile worked as a reporter on a local television station. Being a speech giver at the graduation ceremony, he achieved straight A’s in his regular classes, plus bonus points for A’s in two college-level courses.
How do super-achievers like Roman and Melendres do it? Brains aren’t the only answer. “Top grades don’t always go to the brightest students,” declares Herbert Walberg, a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who has conducted major studies on super-achieving students. “Knowing how to make full use of your innate (天生的) abilities counts for more. Much more.”
In fact, Walberg says, students with high IQ sometimes don’t do as well as classmates with lower IQ. For them, learning comes too easily and they never find out how to get down. Hard work isn’t the whole story, either. “It’s not how long you sit there with the books open,” said one of the many-A students we interviewed. “It’s what you do while you’re sitting.” Indeed, some of these students actually put in fewer hours of homework time than their lower-scoring classmates.
The kids at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can readily learn.
【小题1】The underlined word “nerds” in paragraph 1 can probably be ________.
A.dull bookworms lacking sports and social skills |
B.successful top students popular with their peers |
C.students with certain learning difficulties |
D.born leaders crazy about social activities |
A.Most TV programs and films are about straight-A students. |
B.People have unfavorable impression on straight-A students. |
C.Everyone knows about straight-A students from TV or films. |
D.Straight-A students are well admired by people in the society. |
A.they are born cleverer than others | B.they work longer hours at study |
C.they make full use of their abilities | D.they know the shortcut to success |
A.The interviews with more students. | B.The role IQ plays in learning well. |
C.The techniques to be better learners. | D.The achievements top students make. |
A.IQ is more important than hard work in study. |
B.The brightest students can never get low grades. |
C.Top students certainly achieve all-around developments. |
D.Students with average IQ can become super-achievers. |
【小题1】A
【小题2】B
【小题3】C
【小题4】C
【小题5】D
解析试题分析:本文讲述了以前人们对于学习优秀的学生有很多的误解,认为这样的学生都是只知道学习的书虫。运动技能和社交技能缺乏,但是实际上现在的很多学生在各个方面都有了全面的发展。
【小题1】A 推理题。根据本句下2行They get high grades, all right, but only by becoming dull laborers, their noses always stuck in a book. They are not good at social communication and look clumsy while doing sports.说明这样的优秀生经常是那种缺少运动技能和社交能力的书虫。故该词指A。
【小题2】B 段落大意题。根据第二段2,3行They get high grades, all right, but only by becoming dull laborers, their noses always stuck in a book. They are not good at social communication and look clumsy while doing sports.说明人们认为学习的好的优秀生在其它方面有较大的缺陷,对他们有一定的偏见。故B项说法正确。
【小题3】C 细节题。根据第三段最后2行“Knowing how to make full use of your innate (天生的) abilities counts for more. Much more.”说明这些学生成分运用了自己的天生的能力才会取得这样的成绩,故C正确。
【小题4】C 推理题。根据最后一段The kids at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can readily learn.指这些优秀的学生掌握了一些基本的学习的技巧。那么接下来应该讨论的就是这些学习技巧是什么,故C项正确。
【小题5】D 推断题。根据文章第二段中对Domenica Roman or Paul Melendres的描述,我们发现厉害的学生都是全面发展的,在各个方面都取得很好的成绩。故D项正确。
考点:考查教育类短文阅读
点评:本文讲述了以前人们对于学习优秀的学生有很多的误解,认为这样的学生都是只知道学习的书虫。运动技能和社交技能缺乏,但是实际上现在的很多学生在各个方面都有了全面的发展。考查推理题较多,要求考生能根据上下文的语义串联和题目的具体要求,做出适当的延伸和推理。
Oh, boy! Time for a game now. oldest brother is the seeker so k have to hide extra good because he’s smart and will find me quickly.But where? Behind the garage won’t work. The barn is too easy. Wait, I know. The door leading under the porch is perfect. No one would look for me under there.
It smells unpleasant under this porch. Wish I had picked another place to hide. Smelly cats! Too late now, I can hear brother seeking everyone out. I’ll just sit here quiet as a mouse. Hah hah hah! I can hear you out by the barn! You’ll never find me over there!
It’s been a while and he hasn’t found me yet. What’s that I hear? Now all my brothers are looking for me. They’ve all been caught, but not me. They’ll never trick me into coming out to catch me. Wait, is that Dad I hear calling my name? Oh no, now I hear someone going to call Grandpa to help look for me. I’m not coming out now because I’m in really big trouble.
What to do? If I come out and say I heard them calling me, I’ll be in big trouble. Think, think! How do I get out of trouble? I know what to do! I’ll tell them I fell asleep while waiting. Is that Grandpa’s voice? Heh heh heh! Now’s my chance. I’ll crawl out slowly and rub my eyes. Now that I see Grandpa go towards me quickly, I say. “I feel asleep.”
“Oh! You had us all worried!” says Grandpa. “You little devil, I’m just glad you’re all right, but next time try not to fall asleep and scare us like that, okay?” says Dad. Whew! I pulled it off (成功). Now to keep my mouth shut. And I did, for over 42 years. Once in a while, a kid pulls the wool over people’s eyes. So that’s one of my little secrets I’ve never revealed before. Don’t tell anyone now!
【小题1】The place where the boy was hiding smelt terrible because it .
A.was too wet there | B.was used as a barn |
C.was dirtied by animals | D.was just under the garage |
A.Happy – excited – nervous. | B.Regretted – happy – anxious. |
C.Excited – nervous – disappointed. | D.Happy – nervous – regretted. |
A.Children can win others’ trust more easily than adults. |
B.Children can tell a lie that others believe to be true. |
C.Children can be easily fooled by adults. |
D.Children are good at telling lies. |
A.a teenager | B.a naughty boy child |
C.a young adult | D.a middle – aged man |
In Greek mythology(神话), the gods punished Sisyphus by forcing him to roll a rock up a steep hill for eternity(来世). But he was probably better off than if they’d forced him to sit and stare into space until the end of time, conclude the authors of a new study on keeping busy. They found that people who have something to do, even something pointless, are happier than people who sit around.
“The general phenomenon I’m interested in is why people are too busy doing what they are doing in modern society,” says Christopher K. Hsee, of the University of Chicago. “People are running around, working hard, the way beyond the basic level.” Sure, there are reasons, like making a living, earning money, and so on. But, Hsee says, “I think there’s something deeper: We have extra energy and we want to avoid idleness.”
In a study 98 students were asked to complete two surveys. After they had completed the first they were made to wait 15 minutes to receive the next one. They were given a choice of either handing in the first survey nearby or at a more distant location they had to walk to. Whichever option they chose, they received a chocolate bar. Not everyone chose to go to the faraway location. Two-thirds chose the lazy option. Yet those who chose to stay busy by going to the faraway location were found to be happier than those who had stayed put.
But if the chocolate bars offered at the two locations were different, they were more likely to choose the far location—because they could make up a good and acceptable reason for the trip, Hsee and his colleagues say.
Hsee thinks it may be possible to use this principle—people like being busy, and they like being able to show being busy right or reasonable—to benefit society. “If we can find a way for idle people to engage in activity that is at least not harmful, I think it is better than destructive business,” he says. Hsee himself has been known to give a research assistant a useless task when he doesn’t have anything to do, so he isn’t sitting around the office getting bored and depressed.
【小题1】The author starts the passage with the Greek mythology story to ________.
A.make it easier to understand the passage |
B.draw readers’ attention to Greek culture |
C.show Greek people enjoyed being busy |
D.bring about the subject of the passage |
A.make others think they are not lazy |
B.keep their energy at the basic level |
C.earn more money to support their family |
D.avoid the state of having nothing to do |
A.remained there | B.kept occupied | C.got around | D.stayed awake |
A.Blue. | B.Empty. | C.Contented. | D.Trapped. |