Question

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

2.C

3.C

【解析】

试题分析：本文叙述了每个人都想成为学习成绩全优的学生，他们成绩很优秀，但同时也成了书呆子，整天脑袋都钻在书本里。顶级学生是如何成功的呢？智力不是唯一的答案。高分的学生并不都是最聪明的学生，对顶级学生做过重要研究的教育专家说，知道如何充分利用自己的内在能力更为重要，并且这一点要重要的多。

1.推理判断题。根据They get high grades, all right, but only by becoming dull laborers, their noses always stuck in a book. 他们成绩很优秀，但同时也成了书呆子，整天脑袋都钻在书本里可以推知对于成绩优秀者印象不好，故选B。

2.细节理解题。根据Knowing how to make full use of your innate (天生的) abilities counts for more. Much more.”主要因为他们充分利用了他们的能力。故选C。

3.推理判断题。根据The kids at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can readily learn.好的学习者的技能，故选C。

考点：教育类短文阅读。