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　　What makes one person more intelligent than another？ What makes one person a genius , like the brilliant Albert Einstein and another person a fool? Are people born, intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of where and how you live? These are very old questions and answers to them are still not clear.

　　We know , however , that just being born with a good mind is not enough. In some ways , the mind is like a leg or an arm muscle. It needs exercise .Mental exercise is important for young children. Many child psychologists think that parents should play with their children more often and give them problems to think about. The children are then more likely to grow up bright and intelligent. If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do , they are more likely to become dull and unintelligent.

　　Parents should also be careful what they say to young children. According to some psychologists , if parents are always telling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot , then the child is more likely to keep doing silly and foolish things.

　　So it is probably better for parents to say very positive (helpful) things to their children , such as “That was a very clever thing you did. ” or “You are such a smart child”.

1．The words “intelligent” and “brilliant” in the first paragraph probably mean ________ while “dull” in the second paragraph means

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A．bright and splendid; slow in thinking and understanding

B．pretty and handsome; ordinary-looking

C．great and important; not bright or shining

D．hopeful and helpful; careless

2．According to the context we can guess that a genius is ________ while an idiot is ________.

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A．a normal person; a funny person

B．a strong person; a weak person

C．a highly intelligent person; a foolish or weak-minded person .

D．a famous person; an ordinary person

3．A person _________ is more likely to become a genius.

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A．whose parents are clever

B．often thinking about difficult problems

C．often helped by his parents and teachers

D．born with a good mind and putting it to active use

4．Which of the following is NOT true according to the article?

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A．Parents play an important part in their children's growth.

B．The less you use your mind the duller you may become.

C．Intelligence is the result of where and how you live.

D．What makes a person bright or stupid is still under discussion.

答案：A;C;D;C
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　　To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up．For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的)．So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion．Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans．

　　What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱)．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits．Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch．

　　Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet．In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”．

　　But in the end tomatoes carried the day．The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead．”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted．”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato．Some people fainted．But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory．

(1)

The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．

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A．

it made Christive evil

B．

it was the apple of Eden

C．

it came from a forbidden land

D．

it was religiously unacceptable

(2)

What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

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A．

The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down

B．

There was little pregress in the study of the tomato

C．

The tomato was still refused in most western countries

D．

Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato

(3)

What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?

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A．

To manke imself a hero

B．

To remove people's fear of the tomaoto

C．

To speed up the popularityt of the tomato

D．

To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory

(4)

What is the main purpose of the passage?

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A．

To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato

B．

To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato

C．

To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato

D．

To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence

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