Everyone knows about straight-A students. We see them frequently in TV situation comedies and in movies like Revenge(報(bào)復(fù))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(笨拙的) 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 the most 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.

1.The underlined word “nerds” 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

2.What can we conclude from the first paragraph?

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.

3.Some students become super-achievers mainly because_________ .

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

4.What will be talked about after the last paragraph?

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.

5.What can we infer from the passage?

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.

 

【答案】

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.C

5.D

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述了以前人們對(duì)于學(xué)習(xí)優(yōu)秀的學(xué)生有很多的誤解，認(rèn)為這樣的學(xué)生都是只知道學(xué)習(xí)的書(shū)蟲(chóng)。運(yùn)動(dòng)技能和社交技能缺乏，但是實(shí)際上現(xiàn)在的很多學(xué)生在各個(gè)方面都有了全面的發(fā)展。

1.推理題。根據(jù)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.說(shuō)明這樣的優(yōu)秀生經(jīng)常是那種缺少運(yùn)動(dòng)技能和社交能力的書(shū)蟲(chóng)。故該詞指A。

2.段落大意題。根據(jù)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.說(shuō)明人們認(rèn)為學(xué)習(xí)的好的優(yōu)秀生在其它方面有較大的缺陷，對(duì)他們有一定的偏見(jiàn)。故B項(xiàng)說(shuō)法正確。

3.細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)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.”說(shuō)明這些學(xué)生成分運(yùn)用了自己的天生的能力才會(huì)取得這樣的成績(jī)，故C正確。

4.推理題。根據(jù)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.指這些優(yōu)秀的學(xué)生掌握了一些基本的學(xué)習(xí)的技巧。那么接下來(lái)應(yīng)該討論的就是這些學(xué)習(xí)技巧是什么，故C項(xiàng)正確。

5.推斷題。根據(jù)文章第二段中對(duì)Domenica Roman or Paul Melendres的描述，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)厲害的學(xué)生都是全面發(fā)展的，在各個(gè)方面都取得很好的成績(jī)。故D項(xiàng)正確。

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點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文講述了以前人們對(duì)于學(xué)習(xí)優(yōu)秀的學(xué)生有很多的誤解，認(rèn)為這樣的學(xué)生都是只知道學(xué)習(xí)的書(shū)蟲(chóng)。運(yùn)動(dòng)技能和社交技能缺乏，但是實(shí)際上現(xiàn)在的很多學(xué)生在各個(gè)方面都有了全面的發(fā)展。考查推理題較多，要求考生能根據(jù)上下文的語(yǔ)義串聯(lián)和題目的具體要求，做出適當(dāng)?shù)难由旌屯评怼?

 

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