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1、2018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 people . We meet them every day . A few daysago, my car was not running well . I pulled it into a garage, and the young mechanic had it fixed injust a few minutes . He knew what was wrong by
2、 simply listening to the engine. I was amazed . The sadtruth is , great tale nt is not eno ughI am constantly shocked at how little talented people earn. I heard the other day that less than5 perce nt of America ns earn more tha n $100, 000 a year . A bus in ess con sulta nt who specializes in theme
3、dical trade was tell ing me how many doctors and den tists struggle finan cially . It was this bus in ess con sulta nt who gave me the phrase ，“ They are one skill away from great wealth.”There is an old say ing that goes ，“ Job means just over broke（破产）”. And unfortun ately,I would say that the say
4、ing applies to millions of people. Because school does not think financialintelligenee is intelligenee, most workers “ live within their means”. They work and they pay thebills . In stead I recomme nd young people to seek work for what they will lear n, more tha n what theywill earnWhenl ask the cla
5、sses I teach，“ How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald s?” almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask，“ So if most of you can cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald s makes more money than you? ” The answer is obvious: McDonald s is excellentat bus in ess systems . T
6、he reas on why so many tale nted people are poor is that they focus on buildi ng a better hamburger and know little or nothing about bus in ess systems . The world is filledwith tale ntedpoor people . They focus on perfecting their skills at building a better hamburger rather than the skills of sell
7、i ng and deliveri ng the hamburger.1. The author mentions the mechanic in the first paragraph thatA. he is just one of the talented peopleB. he is ready to help othersC. he has a sharp sense of hearingD. he knows little about car repairing2. The underlined part in the third paragraph can be best rep
8、laced byA. spend more than they can affordB. do in their own wayC. live in their own circleD. live within what they earn3. Why do talented people earn so little according to the author?A. They don t work hard eno ughB. They lack financial intelligeneeC. They don t make full use of their talentsD. Th
9、ey have no specialized skills.4. The success of McDonalds lies in itsB. good bus in ess systemsD. excellent serviceA. skills at making hamburgersC. talented workers5. The main purpose of the author is to tell usA. how young people can find a satisfactory jobB. what schools should teach studentsC. wh
10、y so many talented people are poorD. how McD on aid s makes much money【参考答案】1 5、ADBBC阅读理解。Everyone knows about straight-Astudents. Wesee them frequentlyin TV situationcomedies and in movieslike Revenge（复仇）of the_ Nerds. They get high grades, all right, but only by becoming dull laborers, their noses
11、 always stuck in a book. They are not good at social com munication and look clumsy when it comes to sports.How, the n, do we acco unt for Dome nica Roma n or Paul Mele ndres?Roma n is on the tennis team at Fairm ont Senior High School. She also sings in the choral group,serves on the student counci
12、l（学生会）and is a member of the mathematics society. For two years shehas maintained As in every subject. Mele ndres, now a freshma n at the Uni versity of New Mexico, was stude nt-body preside nt at Valley High School in Albuquerque. He played soccer and basketball well, exhibited at the scie nee fair
13、,and mean while worked as a reporter on a local televisi on stati on. Beinga speech giver at the graduation ceremony, he achieved straightAs in his regular classes, plus bonuspoints for As in two college-level courses.How do super-achievers like Roma n and Mele ndres do it? Brai ns arent the only an
14、 swer. Top gradesdont always go to the brightest stude nts, declares Herbert Walberg, professor of educati on at theUni versity of Illi nois at Chicago, who has con ducted major studies of super-achievi ng stude nts.Knowing how to make the most of your innate（天赋的）abilities counts for more. Much more
15、.In fact, Walberg says, students with high I.Q.s sometimes dont do as well as classmates with lowerI. Q.s. For them, lear ning comes too easily and they n ever find out how to get dow n.Hard work isnt the whole story, either. Its not how long you sit there with the books ope n,said one of the many A
16、 stude nts we in terviewed. Its what you do while youre sitt in g. In deed, some of these stude nts actually put in fewer hours of homework time tha n their lower-scori ng classmates.The kids at the top of the class get there by masteri ng a few basic tech niq ues that others canreadily lear n.1. The “nerds ” can probably be
