英译汉
After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 1 to 5. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D, You should make the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
The ups and downs of life may seem to have no predictable plan. But scientists now know there are very definite patterns that almost all people share. Even if you've passed some of your "prime year", you still have other prime years to experience in the future.
When are you smartest? From 18 to 25, according to I. Q. scores; but you're wiser and more experienced with increasing age.
You're sharpest in your 20's. But your I. Q. for other tasks climbs. Your vocabulary at age 5, for Example, is three times as great as when you graduated from college. At 60, your brain possesses almost four times as much information as it did at age 21. When are you happiest? You have the best physical sense of yourself from 15 to 24 ; the best professional sense from 5 to 4.
Before age 24, we believe that our happiest years are yet to come; over 30, we believe that they're behind us. A National Health Survey agrees: After age 30, we become more realistic and do not view happiness as a goal in itself. If we maintain our health, achieve professional and emotional goals, happiness will follow.
When are you most creative.'? Generally between 30 and 4, but the peak varies with different professions.
Mozart wrote a symphony by age eight, and Mendelssohn composed his best known work at 17, but most of the great music was written by men between 33 and 4. Though the peak in most fields comes early, creative people continue to produce quality work throughout their lives. For the "well-conditioned mind", there is no upper limit.
1. The expression "prime years" on line 3, Paragraph 1 probably means( ).
A、the age of ideal physical condition B、be early in time
C、the period of ideal or peak condition D、the. Most special days
2. At what age are you smartest, sharpest and with the best physical sense, ac-cording to the passage? ( )
A、From about 15 to 25. B、Over 30.
C、From 5 to 49. D、At 60.
3. There are many ways to take happiness with us in our lives EXCEPTFOR( )
A、maintaining our health B、achieving professional goals
C、achieving emotional goals D、being smart and sharp
4. From the last paragraph, we can learn that( )
A、for those creative people, there is no upper limit in life
B、for most of us, the peak in most fields comes early
C、the peak varies with different professions
D、how we can keep our creativeness
5. The passage is mainly about( )
A、the ups and downs of life may have no predictable plan
B、everyone has his or her prime years to experience again after the "prime" in his or her 20's
C、at what age you are smartest in your life
D、at what age you are happiest in your life