Question

【题目】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。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(数学计算). 【2】 Your vocabulary at the age of 45, for example, is three times as great as when you graduated from college. At 60, your brain has 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 from 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 keep 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(职业). Mozart wrote a symphony and four sonatas by the age of 8, and Mendelssohn composed his bestknown 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(质量) throughout their lives. 【5】

A. When are you most creative ?

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 “wellconditioned mind”, there is no upper limit.（限制）

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】E

【3】B

【4】A

【5】G

【解析】

试题分析：本文叙述了人的智商在人的不同阶段的变化情况，文中说明了一是什么时间人是最聪明的，随之记忆力下降，但是人们的词汇或其他方面开始上升。二是人最幸福的时间是什么时候。三是人最具有创造力的时间是什么时候。并且文中举例说明了各个问题。

【1】C根据From 18-25, according to I.Q. scores; but you are wiser and more experienced with increasing age.叙述了人什么时间最聪明，故选C

【2】E根据your memory begins to go down 与Your vocabulary at the age of 45, for example , is three times as great as then you graduated form college. 前者说的记忆力下降，后者说一个词汇方面的增多，所以中间缺少一个过渡句，故选E。

【3】B 根据You have the best physical sense of yourself from 15 to 24; the best professional sense form 40 to 49.人们最幸福的时候，故选B

【4】A根据Mosart wrote a symphony(交响曲) and four sonatas by the age of 8, and Mendelssohn composed（作曲） 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.从这种例子中可以看出是人最具有创造性的时候，故选A

【5】G根据most Nobel Prize winners did their top research in their late 20`s and 30`---creative people continue to produce work with high quality throughout their lives.许多诺贝尔奖的获得者在他们20到30岁时做出很多研究，创造性的人继续高质量的产出，故选G。对于思想很成熟的人来说，是没有限制的。