河南省郑州市高考英语考前冲刺 阅读理解考前自练题9

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郑州市2014高考英语阅读理解考前自练题

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The latest research suggests that the key factor separating geniuses from the merely

accomplished is not I. Q. , a generally bad predictor of success. Instead, it’s

purposeful practice. Top performers spend more hours practising their craft. If you

wanted to picture how a typical genius might develop, you’d take a girl who possessed

a slightly above average language ability. It wouldn’t have to be a big talent, just

enough so that she might gain some sense of distinction. Then you would want her to

meet, say, a novelist, who coincidentally shared some similar qualities. Maybe the

writer was from the same town, had the same family background, or, shared the same

birthday.

This contact would give the girl a vision of her future self. It would give her some

idea of a fascinating circle she might someday join. It would also help if one of

her parents died when she was 12, giving her a strong sense of insecurity and fuelling

a desperate need for success. Armed with this ambition, she would read novels and

life stories of writers without end. This would give her a primary know-ledge of her

field. She’d be able to see new writing in deeper ways and quickly understand its

inner workings.

Then she would practise writing. Her practice would be slow, painstaking and

error-focused. By practising in this way, she delays the automatizing process. Her

mind wants to turn conscious, newly learned skills into unconscious, automatically

performed skills. By practising slowly, by breaking skills down into tiny parts and

repeating, she forces the brain to internalize a better pattern of performance. Then

she would find an adviser who would provide a constant stream of feedback, viewing

her performance from the outside, correcting the smallest errors, pushing her to take

on tougher challenges. By now she is redoing problems—how do I get characters into

a room—dozens and dozens of times. She is establishing habits of thought she can

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call upon in order to understand or solve future problems.

The primary quality our young writer possesses is not some mysterious genius. It’s

the ability to develop a purposeful, laborious and boring practice routine. The latest

research takes some of the magic out of great achievement. But it underlines a fact

that is often neglected. Public discussion is affected by genetics and what we’re

“hard-wired” to do. And it’s true that genes play a role in our capabilities. But

the brain is also very plastic. We construct ourselves through behaviour.

1. The passage mainly deals with .

A. the function of I. Q. in cultivating a writer

B. the relationship between genius and success

C. the decisive factor in making a genius

D. the way of gaining some sense of distinction

2. By reading novels and writers’ stories, the girl could .

A. come to understand the inner structure of writing

B. join a fascinating circle of writers someday

C. share with a novelist her likes and dislikes

D. learn from the living examples to establish a sense of security

3. In the girl’s long painstaking training process, .

A. her adviser forms a primary challenging force to her success

B. her writing turns into an automatic pattern of performance

C. she acquires the magic of some great achievements

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