Question

Everyone knows about straight-A students. We see them frequently in TV situation comedies and in movies like Revenge (報復) 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.

1. 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.

2. 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

3. 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.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.C

【解析】

試題分析：本文敘述了每個人都想成為學習成績全優的學生，他們成績很優秀，但同時也成了書呆子，整天腦袋都鉆在書本里。頂級學生是如何成功的呢？智力不是唯一的答案。高分的學生并不都是最聰明的學生，對頂級學生做過重要研究的教育專家說，知道如何充分利用自己的內在能力更為重要，并且這一點要重要的多。

1.推理判斷題。根據They get high grades, all right, but only by becoming dull laborers, their noses always stuck in a book. 他們成績很優秀，但同時也成了書呆子，整天腦袋都鉆在書本里可以推知對于成績優秀者印象不好，故選B。

2.細節理解題。根據Knowing how to make full use of your innate (天生的) abilities counts for more. Much more.”主要因為他們充分利用了他們的能力。故選C。

3.推理判斷題。根據The kids at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can readily learn.好的學習者的技能，故選C。

考點：教育類短文閱讀。

點評：推理判斷題需要考生正確的閱讀短文對語篇有個整體的把握。會根據語句之間的邏輯關系、段內的語義關系及篇章的語義關系，從段落、篇章的角度理解文章的主旨、作者的觀點和態度。做此類試題要善于抓住某一段話中的關鍵信息，即某些關鍵詞或短語去分析、推理、判斷，利用逆向思維或正面推理，從而推斷出這句話所隱含的深層含義。