阅读理解Passage E There were several reasons why the Industrial Revolution started in the Great Britain rather than in France, the other great power of the day

阅读理解Passage 1 From 2007 to 2010, American households lost $11 trillion in real estate, savings, and stocks More than half of all U

阅读理解Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A., B., C. and D.. You should deicide the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage FourIn one study of 400 adults who had got remarkable achievements in all areas of life, researchers found that three-fifths of these individuals did badly in school. Pablo Picasso, Charles Darwin, and Mark Twain all disliked school. About Oliver Goldsmith, one of his teachers remarked, “Never was dull a boy.” Often these children realize that they know more than their teachers, and their teachers often feel that these children are arrogant and inattentive.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 did poorly in school not because they lacked ability but because they found school unchallenging and consequently lost interest. So they were difficult to teach. As noted earlier, gifted children of all kinds tend to be strong-willed nonconformists.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. 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.

阅读理解Passage 3 The first mention of slavery in the statutes of the English colonies of North America does not occur until after 1660some forty years after the importation of the first Black people

阅读理解Passage 2 There are very few big adventures left and very few heroes

阅读理解Passage 1 Just how much does the Constitution protect your digital data? The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest

阅读理解Passage 2 Most people can remember a phone number for up to thirty seconds

阅读理解Material culture refers to the touchable, material thingsphysical objects that can be seen, held, felt, usedthat a culture produces

阅读理解Passage Three Students of United States history, seeking to identify the circumstances that encouraged the emergence of feminist movements, have thoroughly investigated the mid-nineteenth-century American economic and social conditions that affected the status of women

阅读理解Passage Four For a quarter of a century, surveys of reading habits by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a federally-funded body, have been favorite material for anyone who thinks America is dumbing down

阅读理解(1) You who are letting miserable misunderstandings run on from year to year, meaning to clear them up some day; you who are keeping wretched quarrels alive because you cannot quite make up your mind that now is the day to sacrifice your pride and kill them; you who are passing men sullenly upon the street, not speaking to them out of some silly spite, and yet knowing that it would fill you with shame and remorse if you heard that one of those men were dead tomorrow morning; you who are letti

阅读理解Did you know that you could have an exciting career in law without becoming a lawyer? A paralegal, or legal assistant, does many of the things a lawyer does

阅读理解Passage 1 The standardized educational or psychological tests, that are widely used to aid in selecting, classifying, assigning, or promoting students, employees, and military personnel have been the target of recent attacks in books, magazines, the daily press, and even in Congress

阅读理解Independent drugstores are raising questions about the states effort to save tens of millions of dollars by rolling pharmacies into Medicaid managed care

阅读理解What we know of prenatal development makes all this attempt made by a mother to mold the character of herunborn child by studying poetry, art, or mathematics during pregnancy seem utterly impossible

阅读理解Passage 4 Joy and sadness are experienced by people in all cultures around the world, but how can we tell when other people are happy or despondent? It turns out that the expression of many emotions may be universal

阅读理解(1) Though the number of court-ordered cesareans（剖腹产）is small, each one symbolizes a disturbing trend the encroachment on the rights of the pregnant woman; the view of her as the jar or container of the next generation

阅读理解Now that the Obama health care plan has passed in to law, it looks as though more Americans are in favor of the plan

阅读理解Text 1 Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people

阅读理解Passage 3 Is Harvard worth it? Conventional wisdom says yes