阅读理解The old idea that child prodigies (神童) “burn themselves” or “overtax their brains” in the early years, therefore, suffer from failure and (at worst) mental illness is just a myth. As a matter of fact, the outstanding thing that happens to bright children is that they are very likely to grow into bright adults.To find this out, 1,500 gifted persons were followed up to their thirty-fifth years with these results:On adult intelligence tests, they scored as high as they did as children. They were, as a group, in good health, physically and mentally. Eighty-four percent of their group were married and seemed content with their life.About 70 percent had graduated from colleges, though only 30 percent had graduated with honors. A few had even flunked out (退学), but nearly half of these had returned to graduate.Of the men, 80 percent were in one of the professions or in business, managerial or semiprofessional jobs. The women who had remained single had offices, business, or professional occupations.The group had published 90 books and 1,500 articles in scientific, scholarly, and literary magazines and had collected more than 100 patents.In a material way they didn’t do badly either. Average ine was considerably higher among the gifted people, especially the men, than for the country as a whole, despite their parative youth when last surveyed.In fact, far from being strange, maladjusted (难以适应) people locked in an ivory tower, most of the gifted were turning their early promises into practical reality.1.The main idea of the passage is __________. A.that gifted adults can be as intelligent as when they were youngB.that bright children are unlikely to be physically and mentally healthyC.that gifted children are most likely to bee bright grown-upsD.that when the bright children grow up, they bee ordinary2.From the passage, we can conclude that ____________. A.most of the gifted children became white-collar workersB.half of the gifted followed up graduated from collegesC.each of the talented published at least one articleD.successful men got higher ine than successful women3.Which of the following is mentioned in the passage?A.The gifted could not be fit for their social positions.B.Most of the bright and successful women remained single.C.The gifted men got full marks on intelligence tests.D.Most of the gifted appeared satisfied with their life.4.The explanation of the underlined part “turning their early promises into practical reality” is _____________.A.earning their living and keeping promisesB.doing practical jobs and facing realityC.doing what they have promisedD.realizing what they were expected
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CADD解析此文的结构比较清晰，第1段提出观点，The old idea that …is just a myth. As a matter of fact, the outstanding thing that happens to bright children is that they are very likely to grow into bright adults.虽然第一句很长，而且有难词myth，但如果按照这里提供的方法，注意最基本的主句，就不影响理解，尤其是后面的as a matter of fact突出了事实应该是怎样，才是关键内容，前面一句即使不懂都没有关系。从行文逻辑考虑，这一段用正反两方面的话表明作者的观点，以下就应当用事实论证。果不其然，从2段始至7段止，作者从几个方面介绍了这些天资聪颖的孩子们所取得的骄人成绩。最后一段做总结，呼应第一段的观点。In fact, far from being …, most of the gifted were turning their early promises into practical reality.1. 考查文章的主旨大意，对议论文来说，就是作者反复论证的观点，所以