单选题Passsges 5 Given the lack of fit between gifted students and their schools, it is not surprising that such students often have little good to say about their school experience. In one study of 400 adults who had achieved distinction in all areas of life, researchers found that three-fifths of these individuals either did badly in school or were unhappy in school. Few MacArthur Prize fellows, winners of the MacArthur Award for creative accomplishment, had good things to say about their precollegiate schooling if they had not been placed in advanced programs. Anecdotal (名人轶事) reports support this. Pablo Picasso, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Oliver Goldsmith, and William Butler Yeats all disliked school. So did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow, an elite British school. About Oliver Goldsmith, one of his teachers remarked, "never was so dull a boy." Often these children realize that they know more than their teachers, and their teachers often feel that these children are arrogant, inattentive, or unmotivated. Some of these gifted people may have done poorly in school because their gifts were not scholastic. Maybe we can account for Picasso in this way. But most fared poorly in school not because they lacked ability but because they found school unchallenging and consequently lost interest. Yeats described the lack of fit between his mind and school, "because I had found it difficult to attend to anything less interesting than my own thoughts, I was difficult to teach." As noted earlier, gifted children of all kinds tend to be strong-willed nonconformists. Nonconformity and stubbornness (and Yeats's level of arrogance and self-absorption) are likely to lead to conflicts with teachers. When highly gifted students in any domain talk about what was important to the development of their abilities, they are far more likely to mention their families than their schools or teachers. A writing prodigy (神童) studied by David Feldman and Lynn Goldsmith was taught far more about writing by his journalist father than his English teacher. High-IQ children, in Australia studied by Miraca Gross had much more positive feelings about their families than their schools. About half of the mathematicians studied by Benjamin Bloom had little good to say about school. They all did well in school and took honors classes when available, and some skipped grades.

单选题Language has always been—as the phrase goes — the mirror to society. English is no ______.

单选题The English language contains a(n) ______ of words which are comparatively seldom used in ordinary conversation. [A] altitude [B] latitude [C] multitude [D] attitude

单选题Objectively set standards can serve as a ______for physicians, providing them ______unjustified malpractice claims.

单选题Some disputes among these countries are ______ by history. A. left over B. turned over C. handed over D. taken over

单选题The scheme was so impracticable that I refused even ______.

单选题The Lewis and Clark expedition ______the ten Story of the Louisiana Purchase and beyond as far as the Pacific Ocean.

单选题Most good writers use every means at their ______ to make the reader"s way smooth and easy.

单选题Another quick way to find information on the Internet is to ______ the service providers' home pages.

单选题It is impossible to ______ this battle, for it raged for six months.

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单选题Since the energy crisis, these big cars have become a real liability. They cost too much to run. A. lack of reliability B. substitute C. costly means of transport D. disadvantage

单选题There are laws to specify the person (s) who will obtain a dead person"s ______ if no will exists.

单选题David is the______ holder of the 5,000-meter race world record, but there is no guarantee that he will win in the Olympic Games.

单选题When he realized he had been ______. to sign the contract by intrigue, he threatened to start legal proceedings to cancel the agreement. A. elicited B. excited C. deduced D. induced

单选题The university board of trustees deemed it urgent that a new provost______to re place Mr. Dannison who had been diagnosed with cancer.

单选题At last she left her house and hurried to the airport only ______ the plane flying away.

单选题Nowadays advertising costs are no longer in reasonable______ to the total cost of the product.