题目内容
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
__1__ From 18-25, according to I.Q.scores; but you are wiser and more experienced with increasing age.
You are smartest in your 20’s ; around 30, your memory begins to go down, particularly your ability to perform mathematical computations, __2__ Your vocabulary at the age of 45, for example , is three times as great as then you graduated form college.At 60, your brain possesses almost four times as much information as it did at the age of 21.
__3__ You have the best physical sense of yourself from 15 to 24; the best professional sense form 40 to 49.
Before the age of 24, we believe that our happiest years are yet to come; over 30, we believe that they are behind us.A National Health survey agrees: after the age of 30, we “ become more realistic and do not view happiness as a goal in itself.If we maintain our health, achieve professional and emotional goals, happiness, we feel, will follow”.
__4__ Generally between 30 and 39, but the peak(顶峰) varies with different professions.
Mosart wrote a symphony(交响曲) and four sonatas by the age of 8, and Mendelssohn composed his best known work A Midsummer Night’s Dream, at 17, but most of the great music was written by men between 33 and 39.
Though the peak in most fields comes early, most Nobel Prize winners did their top research in their late 20’s and 30’s---creative people continue to produce work with high quality throughout their lives__5__.
A.When are you most creative (创造性的)?
B.When are you happiest?
C.When are you smartest?
D.Do you know what I.Q.refers to?
E.But your I.Q.for other tasks goes up.
F.Creative people usually produce a lot of works.
G.For the “well-conditioned mind”, there is no upper limit.
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第二节(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
In 1990 a report was published about what the earth might be like 20 years from then on. 71 According to the report,the picture of the earth in the year 2010 is not a pleasant one. 72 The population could be as large as 6300 million,almost 2150 million more than in 1985.More people would move into cities ,especially cities in developing countries.Cities like Cairo and Jakarta probably would each have 15 million by then.
73 Farmers will grow 90% more food than they did in 1985,but most of the increase would be in countries that already produce enough food for their people. 74 Poor farming ways are destroying large areas of crop land,changing farms into deserts.More farmland is lost as cities become larger and more houses are built.Air pollution will get worse as industrial countries burn more coal and oil.Many of the world's forests could disappear as more and more trees are cut down.Energy will continue to be a serious problem. 75 They only workde out the situation that exists today.By changing the situation,by settling the problems,the picture can be changed.There is still time for the nations of the world to work out a plan of action.But they warned that waiting too long to make de cisions would greatly reduce the chances of success.
A.Food production will increase,but not enough to feed all the people. |
B.The report was a result of a three - year study. |
C.Later on,more reports came out one by one. |
D.The world will be more crowded because the population will continue to grow. |
E.Experts believe enough food will be produced in developing countries very soon.
F.The experts say their picture of the earth for the year 2010 may be wrong.
G.Little increase is expected in South Asia,Africa and the Middle East.