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On October 23, 2011, David Pologruto, a high school physics teacher, was stabbed (刺) by his smart student Jason Haffizulla. Jason got straight A’s and was determined to study medicine at Harvard, yet this was his downfall. His physics teacher gave Jason a B, a mark Jason believed would undermine (损害) his entrance to Harvard. After receiving his B, Jason took a butcher knife to school and stabbed his physics teacher.
How can someone as smart as Jason do something so dumb? Studies show there is little or no correlation between IQ and emotional intelligence.
During my early university years, I regarded myself as an intelligent guy. I got good marks in mathematics, physics, and other subjects. I thought such skills would surely give me a bright future. After one year of study with decent marks, I began to see two major classes of students. The first category of students turned up to few lectures, partied every weekend, enjoyed a great social life, and did minimal work to pass courses. The second category of students were intelligent and hard workers who got good grades and were very focused on their studies. Surely would these intelligent and hard-working students find the great jobs before the other lazier class of students?
Not so. Students are often shocked upon graduation that their qualifications are not as important as they once thought. Graduates enter the workforce only to realize that co-workers hate them and less intelligent people are the ones receiving promotions.
Educational skills are useless in some industries when interpersonal skills are absent. You can have great ideas, theories, and solve complex problems, but if you cannot effectively communicate in a persuasive and exciting manner by relating to your fellow humans, you will face an uphill battle in whatever challenges you encounter. It’s not that people dislike you because of your intelligence; it’s that people dislike you because you’re rude and not understanding. The intelligent person with poor communication skills is insensitive or unaware of others’ emotions.
小题1:Jason Haffizulla stabbed his physics teacher because .| A．he was unfairly treated by his teacher | | B．he was disappointed with his downfall | | C．he was not smart enough at studies | | D．he got a worse mark than usual |
小题2:We can infer from the third paragraph that the author in his early university years.| A．didn’t think communication skills were as important as intelligence | | B．didn’t work hard | | C．belonged to the first category of students | | D．could keep a balance between social life and studies |
小题3:Intelligent people are hated because .| A．they can solve more complex problems | | B．they can’t settle the challenges they meet | | C．they are envied for their intelligence | | D．they are not understanding enough |
小题4:The main purpose of the text is to tell us .| A．the relationship between IQ and emotional intelligence | | B．what kind of students can succeed in college | | C．smart people may have poorer communication skills | | D．intelligent students will meet more challenges at work |
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小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:D
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本文以一个学生刺伤老师的实例来说明智商高的学生缺乏和别人交流的能力，在工作中反而会受到其他人的讨厌。
小题1:细节理解题 根据第一段中“...His physics teacher gave Jason a B, a mark Jason believed would undermine (损害) his entrance to Harvard....”可知他不满意老师给他的B，因为一直以来他得的都是A，他认为B会影响他上哈佛大学。
小题2:细节理解题 根据第二句话可知，他刚开始认为好的成绩肯定会有个好的未来。因此交际的能力不如智力来的重要。因此选A
小题3:细节理解题 根据第五段中“...it’s that people dislike you because you’re rude and not understanding...”可知在工作上那些所谓的聪明的人会被讨厌因为他们粗鲁，不知体谅。
小题4:主旨大意题 文章用实例举证说明聪明的人往往不知道如何和别人交流。 |
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The practice of students endlessly copying letters and sentences from a blackboard is a thing of the past. With the coming of new technologies like computers and smartphone, writing by hand has become something of nostalgic (怀旧的)skill. However, while today’s educators are using more and more technology in their teaching, many believe basic handwriting skills are still necessary for students to be successful---both in school and in life.
Virginia Berninger, professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington, says it’s important to continue teaching handwriting and help children acquire the skill of writing by hand.
Berninger and her colleagues conducted a study that looked at the ability of students to complete various writing tasks---both on a computer and by hand. The study, published in 2009, found that when writing with a pen and paper, participants wrote longer essays and more complete sentences and had a faster word production rate.
In a more recent study, Berninger looked at what role spelling plays in a student’s writing skills and found that how well children spell is tied to know well they can write. “Spelling makes some of the thinking parts of the brain active which helps us access our vocabulary, word meaning and concepts. It is allowing our written language to connect with ideas.” Berninger said.
Spelling helps students translate ideas into words in their mind first and then to transcribe(转换) “those words in the mind written symbols on paper or keyboard and screen,” the study said. Seeing the words in the “mind’s eye” helps children not only to turn their ideas into words, says Berninger, but also to spot(发现) spelling mistakes when they write the words down and to correct then over time.
“In our computer age, some people believe that we don’t have to teach spelling because we have spell checks,” she said. “But until a child has a functional spelling ability of about a fifth grade level, they won’t have the knowledge to choose the correct spelling among the options given by the computer.”
小题1:What makes writing by hand a thing of the past?| A．The absence of blackboard in classroom. | | B．The use of new technologies in teaching. | | C．The lack of practice in handwriting. | | D．The popular use of smartphones. |
小题2:Berninger’s study published in 2009 ___________.| A．focused on the difference between writing by hand and on a computer. | | B．indicated that students prefer to write with a pen and paper. | | C．found that good essays are made up of long sentences. | | D．discussed the importance of writing speed. |
小题3:Which of the following best shows the role of spelling?| A．Spelling improves one’s memory of words. | | B．Spelling ability is closely related to writing ability. | | C．Spelling benefits the translation from words into ideas. | | D．Spelling slows down finding exact words to express ideas. |
小题4:What does “mind’s eye” in paragraph 5 mean?| A．Window. | B．Soul | C．Picture. | D．Imagination. |
小题5:What conclusion could be drawn from the passage?| A．Computers can help people with their choice of words. | | B．Spell checks can take the place of spelling teaching. | | C．Handwriting still has a place in today’s classrooms. | | D．Functional spelling ability develops fast in the fifth grade. |
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Not everyone goes to university after high school graduation. Some work, others join the army and an increasing number worldwide are taking a “gap year” to travel or do community service in their own countries or abroad. They are studying sharks off the Australian coast, building schools in Mexico and learning Spanish or Italian.
The concept of a gap year may not be new, but the recent surge (涌现) of interest certainly is. Some students are putting off admissions. Others, who don’t get into the college of their choice, are taking a year to explore new frontiers before reapplying.
Students are choosing to take a breather; they are thinking. They are not sure what they are going to do. They are going and exploring some of their interests. They are getting experience they can take to the school they finally go to.
It is an idea actively encouraged by colleges. Princeton University has just launched a “bridge year” program that will send 10 percent of its incoming class to do volunteer work abroad, starting in 2009. And the Harvard has spent the last 30 years urging incoming students to take a gap year.
“Many speak of their year away as a ‘life-changing’ experience or a ‘turning point’” says Harvard admissions director Marlin Lewis. “Many come to college with new opinions about their academic plans, their extracurricular interests and the career possibilities they observed in their year away.”
小题1:The reasons why some take a gap year are the following EXCEPT that ________.| A．they hate studying | | B．they don’t know what to do | | C．they want to get experience | | D．they want to know their real interests |
小题2:A student won’t ________ in a gap year.| A．travel | B．join the army | | C．do community service | D．learn a foreign language |
小题3:After a gap year, one would probably _________.| A．take another year off | | B．earn a lot of money | | C．be refused by his college | | D．have new ideas about their future career |
小题4:From the passage we know that ________.| A．more and more students will take a gap year | | B．fewer and fewer colleges will encourage his students to take a gap year | | C．the gap year can only give one some experience about society | | D．nobody will change his own interests after the gap year |
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Being content with yourself and optimistic about your future is not difficult. Whatever is in the past is __36__. Learn from it and move on. When you are enough __37__to do this, you will see that moving ahead is the best definition of __38__.
What can you do now? Sure it is __39__ for me to tell you to forget the past, __40__ it is a whole different __41__ to actually do it. Life is a complex set of events much of which __42__ is real, but a large amount is just your __43__ of what really happened.
Let me __44__ with an example. I know not everyone is a football fan, but I am __45__ most have watched at least __46__of a game on TV. Most games and almost all the important games are __47__ over and over on the TV screen right after the game happened.
When you watched a game, you were __48__ of the outcome, saying the player __49__ the ball. Then while watching the instant replay, you realized you were __50__ wrong. The player dropped the pass. What you were certain of never happened.
In order to __51__ on your future, you should try to minimize the effects of your past. Try to find out how much of the past that you are certain are just __52__. For example, as a teenager, you tried to build a piece of furniture in your father’s workshop. The piece of furniture looked __53__ when you finished, but it fell apart before you could __54__ it to your father. The reality was that the wood you used was faulty. It was not your building ability. So don’t think yourself to be a __55__ carpenter (木匠) and avoid building anything. Forget the past and move on.
| 小题2: | | A．ambitious | B．bitter | C．sad | D．desperate |
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| 小题3: | | A．work | B．life | C．death | D．leisure |
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| 小题4: | | A．boring | B．surprising | C．easy | D．hard |
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| 小题6: | | A．practice | B．theory | C．order | D．pleasure |
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| 小题7: | | A．in all | B．of course | C．on time | D．at last |
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| 小题9: | | A．explain | B．deny | C．admit | D．prove |
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| 小题10: | | A．deciding | B．remembering | C．noticing | D．guessing |
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| 小题11: | | A．none | B．all | C．part | D．series |
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| 小题12: | | A．studied | B．played | C．wanted | D．sold |
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| 小题13: | | A．doubtful | B．unsure | C．conscious | D．certain |
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| 小题14: | | A．passing | B．catching | C．getting | D．breaking |
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| 小题15: | | A．seldom | B．slightly | C．totally | D．fortunately |
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| 小题16: | | A．keep | B．concentrate | C．put | D．get |
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| 小题17: | | A．mistakes | B．successes | C．measures | D．preparations |
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| 小题19: | | A．promise | B．feed | C．offer | D．show |
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| 小题20: | | A．handsome | B．hardworking | C．terrible | D．helpful |
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A new study done by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario （HEQCO） shows that it doesn"t make much of a difference that parents reward their children with cash for their better marks.
Many parents have offered cash to their children in the hope that it would improve marks and possibly raise their children"s interest in achieving higher marks．
The study, conducted by researchers from the University of Toronto （UT） and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology （MIT） to learn more about the potential for financial encouragement as motivation for improved marks, involved first and second year students receiving financial aid in 2008-2009 at the University of Toronto Scarborough．
The top students participating in the study who said they were "very concerned" about having enough money to complete their degrees were to receive $100 for getting a grade of 70 per cent for each one-semester course, plus $20 for every percentage point beyond that．It was imaginable that a student could earn as much as $700 for achieving 100 percent in a course．
Harvey Weingarten, president and CEO of HEQCO said, "In its efforts to help disadvantaged students by exploring the idea of paying them to attend school, the Toronto District School Board （TDSB） is asking the same question many other districts are asking about how to improve student participation and performance．Our study and others to date indicate that this practice has little effect if any in those situations where it has been tested．"
The authors of the study suggest that ineffective study habits may be a barrier to academic achievement and that the real problem may be more a lack of academic preparation than a lack of effort or motivation．They note that the availability of peer （同伴） advising does not appear to have helped greatly．They conclude that other potential avenues to improving performance, or other approaches of teaching, are needed at the high school and postsecondary levels．
小题1:If a student gets a grade of 85% in a course, he will get _____．小题2:The underlined words "this practice" in Paragraph 5 refer to _____．| A．improving student participation | | B．seeking help from different districts | | C．paying disadvantaged students to attend school | | D．testing student performance in the same district |
小题3:The real problem with student participation and performance is most probably a lack of____．| A．academic preparation | B．effort or motivation | | C．teaching methods | D．peer advising |
小题4:What is mainly discussed in the passage?| A．Many parents have offered cash to their children． | | B．Many first and second year students receive financial aid． | | C．Ineffective study habits lead to poor academic achievement． | | D．Rewarding students with cash for good grades has little effect |
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In a few years，you might be able to speak Chinese，Korean，Japanese，French，and English-and all at the same time. This sounds incredible，but Alex Waibel，a computer science professor at US"s Car-negie Mellon University (CMU) and Germany"s University of Karlsruhe，announced last week that it may soon be reality. He and his team have invented software and hardware that could make it far easier for people who speak different languages to understand each other.
One application，called Lecture Translation，can easily translate a speech from one language into an-other. Current translation technologies typically limit speakers to certain topics or a limited vocabulary. Us-ers also have to be trained how to use the programme.
Another machine can send translations of a speech to different listeners depending on what languagethey speak. “It is like having a simultaneous translator right next to you but without disturbing the person next to you，”Waibel said
Prefer to read? So- called Translation Glasses transcribe(转录) the translations on a tiny liquid-crystal display(LCD) screen.
Then there"s the Muscle Translator. Electrodes capture the electrical signals from facial muscle movements made naturally when a person is mouthing words. The signals are then translated into speech.The electrodes could be replaced with wireless chips implanted in a person"s face，according to research-ers.
During a demonstration held last Thursday in CMU"s Pittsburgh campus，a Chinese student named Sang Jun had 11 tiny electrodes attached to the muscles of his cheeks，neck and throat. Then he mouthed-without speaking aloud- a few words in Mandarin(普通话) to the audience. A few seconds later，the phrase was displayed on a computer screen and spoken out by the computer in English and Spanish: “Let me introduce our new prototype.”
This particular instrument，when fully developed，might allow anyone to speak in any number of lan-guages or，as Waibel put it，“to switch your mouth to a foreign language”. “The idea behind the universi-ty"s prototypes is to create"good enough" bridges for cross- cultural exchanges that are becoming more common in the world，”Waibel said.
With spontaneous(自发的) translators，foreign drivers in Germany could listen to traffic warnings on the radio; tourists in China could read all the signs and talk with local people;leaders of different coun-tries could have secret talks without any interpreters there.
小题1:What can"t be learned from the text?| A．The spontaneous translators will help us a lot. | | B．There is no Muscle Translator in the world now. | | C．Muscle Translators can translate what you think into speech if you just move your mouth. | | D．A lecture translation can translate what you said into other languages easily. |
小题2:What does the underlined word mean?| A．happening at at the same time. | B．happening by itself. | | C．similar in size. | D．Similar in quality. |
小题3:What"s the final destination of inventing the language translators?| A．To make cultural exchanges between different countries easier. | | B．To help students learn foreign languages more easily. | | C．To make people live in foreign countries more comfortably. | | D．To help people learn more foreign languages in the future. |
小题4:What can be inferred from the seventh paragraph?| A．The translator is so good that it can translate any language into the very language you need. | | B．The translator is becoming more and more common in the world as a bridge. | | C．With the help of the translator，you only need to open your mouth when you want to say something without saying the exact words at all. | | D．The translator needs to be improved before being put into market. |
小题5:Where can we probably find this passage?| A．A newspaper. | B．A magazine on science. | | C．A fairy tale. | D．A scientific fantasy book. |
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