The song Lost In Love was an instant ______ in Australia.
A．hit B．strike C．beat D．defeat
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.
Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an __16__ should be made even before choice of a curriculum（课程） in high school. Actually, __17__, most people make several job choices during their working lives, __18__ because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve __19__ position. The "one perfect job" does not exist. Young people should __20__ enter into a broad flexible training program that will __21__ them for a field of work rather than for a single __22__ .
Unfortunately many young people have to make career plans __23__ benefit of help from a competent vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing __24__ about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a hit-or-miss __25__. Some drift from job to job. Others __26__ to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted.
One common mistake is choosing an occupation for __27__ real or imagined prestige (声望). Too many high-school students - or their parents for them - choose the professional field, __28__ both the relatively small percentage of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal __29__. The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a white-collar job is __30__ good reason for choosing it as life's work. __31__, these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large percentage of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the __32__ of young people should give serious __33__ to these fields.
Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants __34__ life and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some people desire social prestige, others intellectual satisfaction. Some want security; others are willing to take __35__ for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards.
1. A．identification B．accommodation C．occupation D．entertainment
2. A．thereby B．however C．though D．therefore
3. A．thoroughly B．mainly C．entirely D．partly
4. A．its B．his C．their D．our
5. A．therefore B．since C．furthermore D．forever
6. A．fit B．make C．take D．leave
7. A．means B．job C．way D．company
8. A．to B．for C．with D．without
9. A．little B．few C．much D．a lot
10. A．chance B．purpose C．basis D．opportunity
11. A．apply B．appeal C．turn D．stick
12. A．its B．their C．your D．our
13. A．concerning B．following C．ignoring D．considering
14. A．preferences B．requirements C．tendencies D．ambitions
15. A．a B．any C．the D．no
16. A．Therefore B．Moreover C．Nevertheless D．However
17. A．majority B．mass C．minority D．number
18. A．proposal B．suggestion C．approval D．consideration
19. A．towards B．out of C．against D．without
20. A．turns B．parts C．risks D．choices
That was a terrible night . The rain was pouring down, _________ thunder and lightning.
A．being accompanied by B．accompanied by C．accompanying D．accompanies
The bus hit against a tree in the fog and __________to the deep valley, with ten passengers killed and twenty wounded.
A．down did it roll B．down rolled it C．down it rolled D．it down rolled
Understanding the cultural habits of another nation, especially ____________ containing as many different subcultures as the United States, is very difficult.
A．one B．that C．some D．the one
