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1、词汇测试题（4）9707真题阅读中旳多义词汇（第一部分）词汇测试（4）9707真题阅读中旳多义词汇（第一部分） Text 11.If you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be even more pronounced.2.“With the first subject, after about 20 hours of training, his di
2、git span had risen from 7 to 20,” Ericsson recalls. 3.In other words, whatever inborn differences two people may exhibit in their abilities to memorize, those differences are swamped by how well each person “encodes” the information. 4.Ericsson and his colleagues have thus taken to studying expert p
3、erformers in a wide range of pursuits, including soccer. 5.They gather all the data they can, not just performance statistics and biographical details but also the results of their own laboratory experiments with high achievers. 6.Or, put another way, expert performers whether in memory or surgery,
4、ballet or computer programming are nearly always made, not born.Text 21.So it is a bit confusing when vos Savant fields such queries from the average Joe (whose IQ is 100) as, Whats the difference between love and fondness? 2.Generally costing several hundred dollars, they are usually given only by
5、psychologists, although variations of them populate bookstores and the World Wide Web. 3.Superhigh scores like vos Savants are no longer possible, because scoring is now based on a statistical population distribution among age peers, rather than simply dividing the mental age by the chronological ag
6、e and multiplying by 100. 4.In his article “How Intelligent Is Intelligence Testing?”, Sternberg notes that traditional tests best assess analytical and verbal skills but fail to measure creativity and practical knowledge, components also critical to problem solving and life success. 5.Anyone who ha
7、s toiled through SAT will testify that test-taking skill also matters, whether its knowing when to guess or what questions to skip.Text 31.During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure has been transfor
8、med by economic risk and new realities. 2.Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months.3.Scholars, policymakers, and critics of all stripes have debated the social implications of these changes, but few have lo
9、oked at the side effect: family risk has risen as well. 4.Todays families have budgeted to the limits of their new two-paycheck status. 5.As a result, they have lost the parachute they once had in times of financial setback a back-up earner (usually Mom) who could go into the workforce if the primar
10、y earner got laid off or fell sick. 6.This “added-worker effect” could support the safety net offered by unemployment insurance or disability insurance to help families weather bad times. 7. For much of the past year, President Bush campaigned to move Social Security to a savings-account model, with
11、 retirees trading much or all of their guaranteed payments for payments depending on investment returns. 8. For younger families, the picture is not any better. 9.Both the absolute cost of healthcare and the share of it borne by families have risen and newly fashionable health-savings plans are spre
12、ading from legislative halls to Wal-Mart workers, with much higher deductibles and a large new dose of investment risk for families future healthcare. 10.Even demographics are working against the middle class family, as the odds of having a weak elderly parent and all the attendant need for physical
13、 and financial assistance have jumped eightfold in just one generation. 11. From the middle-class family perspective, much of this, understandably, looks far less like an opportunity to exercise more financial responsibility, and a good deal more like a frightening acceleration of the wholesale shif
14、t of financial risk onto their already overburdened shoulders. 12.Todays double-income families are at greater financial risk in that they are more vulnerable to changes in family economics.13. The Middle Class on the CliffText 41. Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accoun
15、ting and compliance troubles, and improved their feeble corporation governance, a new problem threatens to earn them especially in America the sort of nasty headlines that inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite: data insecurity. 2.Left, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, and seen as a concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel, information protection is now high on the bosss agenda in businesses of every variety.3.“Data is becom
