2017年广东成人学位英语考试考前押题及答案（二）
根据材料回答下面试题：
The old idea that child prodigies (神通) "burn themselves" or "overtax their brains" in the early years, therefore, are prey to 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 year 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, managers or semi-professional 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(专利权).
In a material way they didn't do badly either. Average income was considerably higher among the gifted people, especially the men, than for the country as a whole, despite their comparative 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.
第21题 The statement that child prodigies" burn themselves "or" overtax their brains" are prey to failure is __________
A.exactly reasonable B.doubted by the author
C.an idea of old men D.a belief of the author
第22题 Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A.Each of the gifted published at least one article.
B.Only half of the talented followed up graduated from all the colleges.
C.Most of the bright children became white collars.
D.Bright men got higher income than bright women.
第23题 The adult intelligence tests showed that __________
A.bright children do not become bright adults
B.between childhood and adulthood there is a considerable loss of intelligence
C.bright children were mostly also bright adults
D.as adults the gifted make much lower scores on intelligence tests
第24题 The underlined part " turning their early promises into practical reality" most probably means __________
A.earning their living and keeping promises
B.realizing what they were expected
C.doing what they have promised
D.doing practical jobs and facing reality
第25题 The main idea of the passage is __________
A.that gifted children were most likely to become bright grown-ups
B.that bright children were unlikely to be physically and mentally healthy
C.how many gifted children turned successful when they grew up
D.that when the bright children grew up, they would become ordinary
根据材料回答下面试题：
It was a cold winter day. A woman drove up to the Rainbow Bridge tollbooth (收费站). "I'm paying for myself, and for the six cars behind me," she said with a smile, handing over seven tickets. One after another, the next six drivers arriving at the tollbooth were informed, "Some lady up ahead already paid your fare."
It turned out that the woman, Natalie Smith, had read something on a friend's refrigerator: "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty." The phrase impressed her so much that she copied it down.
Judy Foreman spotted the same phrase on a warehouse wall far away from home. When it stayed on her mind for days, she gave up and drove all the way back to copy it down. "I thought it was beautiful, "she said, explaining why she'd taken to writing it at the bottom of all her letters, "like a message from above. " Her husband, Frank, liked the phrase so much that he put it up on the classroom wall for his students, one of whom was the daughter of Alice Johnson, a local news reporter. Alice put it in the newspaper, admitting that though she liked it, she didn't know where it came from or what it really meant.
Two days later, Alice got a call from Anne Herbert, a woman living in Matin. It was in a restaurant that Anne wrote the phrase down on a piece of paper, after turning it around in her mind for days.
"Here's the idea," Anne says. "Anything you think there should be more of, do it randomly. " Her fantasies include painting the classrooms of shabby schools, leaving hot meals on kitchen tables in the poor part of town, and giving money secretly to a proud old lady. Anne says, "Kindness can build on itself as much as violence can. "
The acts of random kindness spread. If you were one of those drivers who found your fare paid, who knows what you might have been inspired to do for someone else later. Like all great events, kindness begins slowly, with every single act. Let it be yours!
第26题 Why did Natalie Smith pay for the six cars behind her?
A.She knew the car drivers well. B.She wanted to show kindness.
C.She hoped to please others. D.She had seven tickets.
第27题 Judy Foreman copied down the phrase because she__________
A.thought it was beautifully written
B.wanted to know what it really meant
C.decided to write it on a warehouse wall
D.wanted her husband to put it up in the classroom
第28题 Who came up with the phrase according to the passage?
A.Judy Foreman. B.Natalie Smith.
C.Alice Johnson. D.Anne Herbert.
第29题 Which of the following statements is closest in the meaning to the underlined sentence above?
A.Kindness and violence can change the world.
B.Kindness and violence can affect one's behavior.
C.Kindness and violence can reproduce themselves.
D.Kindness and violence can shape one's character.
第30题 What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A.People should practice random kindness to those in need.
B.People who receive kindness are likely to offer it to others.
C.People should practice random kindness to strangers they meet.
D.People who receive kindness are likely to pay it back to the giver.