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1、2016高考英语阅读理解和短文改错选练（7）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。The world is filled with smart，talented and gifted peopleWe meet them every dayA few days ago，my car was not running wellI pulled it into a garage，and the young mechanic had it fixed in just a few minutesHe knew what was wrong by simply listen
2、ing to the engineI was amazedThe sad truth is，great talent is not enough I am constantly shocked at how little talented people earnI heard the other day that less than 5 percent of Americans earn more than $100，000 a yearA business consultant who specializes in the medical trade was telling me how m
3、any doctors and dentists struggle financiallyIt was this business consultant who gave me the phrase，“They are one skill away from great wealth”There is an old saying that goes，“Job means just over broke（破产）”And unfortunately，I would say that the saying applies to millions of peopleBecause school doe
4、s not think financial intelligence is intelligence，most workers“ live within their means”They work and they pay the billsInstead I recommend young people to seek work for what they will learn，more than what they will earn When I ask the classes I teach，“How many of you can cook a better hamburger th
5、an McDonalds?” almost all the students raise their handsI then ask，“So if most of you can cook a better hamburger，how come McDonalds makes more money than you?” The answer is obvious: McDonalds is excellent at business systemsThe reason why so many talented people are poor is that they focus on buil
6、ding a better hamburger and know little or nothing about business systemsThe world is filled with talented poor people They focus on perfecting their skills at building a better hamburger rather than the skills of selling and delivering the hamburger1The author mentions the mechanic in the first par
7、agraph that Ahe is just one of the talented people Bhe is ready to help othersChe has a sharp sense of hearing Dhe knows little about car repairing2The underlined part in the third paragraph can be best replaced by Aspend more than they can afford Bdo in their own wayClive in their own circle Dlive
8、within what they earn3Why do talented people earn so 1ittle according to the author?AThey dont work hard enough BThey lack financial intelligenceCThey dont make full use of their talents DThey have no specialized skills4The success of McDonalds lies in its Askills at making hamburgersBgood business
9、systemsCtalented workers Dexcellent service5The main purpose of the author is to tell us Ahow young people can find a satisfactory jobBwhat schools should teach studentsCwhy so many talented people are poor Dhow McDonalds makes much money【参考答案】15、ADBBC 阅读理解。Everyone knows about straight-A students.
10、We see them frequently in TV situation comedies and in movies likeRevenge(复仇) of the Nerds. They get high grades, all right, but only by becoming dull laborers, their noses always stuck in a book. They are not good at social communication and look clumsy when it comes to sports. How, then, do we acc
11、ount for Domenica Roman or Paul Melendres? Roman is on the tennis team at Fairmont Senior High School. She also sings in the choral group, serves on the student council(学生会) and is a member of the mathematics society. For two years she has maintained As in every subject. Melendres, now a freshman at
12、 the University of New Mexico, was student-body president at Valley High School in Albuquerque. He played soccer and basketball well, exhibited at the science fair, and meanwhile worked as a reporter on a local television station. Being a speech giver at the graduation ceremony, he achieved straight
13、 As in his regular classes, plus bonus points for As in two college-level courses. How do super-achievers like Roman and Melendres do it? Brains arent the only answer. Top grades dont always go to the brightest students, declares Herbert Walberg, professor of education at the University of Illinois
14、at Chicago, who has conducted major studies of super-achieving students. Knowing how to make the most of your innate(天赋的) abilities counts for more. Much more. In fact, Walberg says, students with high I.Q.s sometimes dont do as well as classmates with lower I.Q.s. For them, learning comes too easil
15、y and they never find out how to get down. Hard work isnt the whole story, either. Its not how long you sit there with the books open, said one of the many A students we interviewed. Its what you do while youre sitting. Indeed, some of these students actually put in fewer hours of homework time than their lower-scoring classmates. The kids at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can readily learn. 1. The “nerds” can probably be _.A. dull bookworms lacking sports and social skillsB. successful top students popular with their
