Everyone knows about straight-A students. We see them
frequently in TV situation comedies and in movies like Revenge(報(bào)復(fù))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(笨拙的) while doing sports.
How, then, do we account 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 and
is a member of the mathematics society. For two years she has maintained A’s in
every subject. Melendres, a freshman at 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 A’s in his regular classes, plus bonus points
for A’s in two college-level courses.
How do super-achievers like Roman and Melendres do it?
Brains aren’t the only answer. “Top grades don’t always go to the brightest
students,” declares Herbert Walberg, a professor of education at the University
of Illinois at Chicago, who has conducted major studies on super-achieving
students. “Knowing how to make the most of your innate(天生的)abilities counts for more. Much more.”
In fact, Walberg says, students with high IQ sometimes
don’t do as well as classmates with lower IQ. For them, learning comes too
easily and they never find out how to get down.
Hard work isn’t the whole story, either. “It’s not how
long you sit there with the books open,” said one of the many-A students we
interviewed. “It’s what you do while you’re 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 underlined word “nerds” can probably be________
.
A.dull
bookworms lacking sports and social skills
B.successful
top students popular with their peers
C.students with
certain learning difficulties
D.born leaders
crazy about social activities
2.What can we conclude from the first paragraph?
A.Most TV
programs and films are about straight-A students.
B.People have
unfavorable impression on straight-A students.
C.Everyone
knows about straight-A students from TV or films.
D.Straight-A
students are well admired by people in the society.
3.Some students become super-achievers mainly
because_________ .
A.they are born
cleverer than others
B.they work
longer hours at study
C.they make
full use of their abilities
D.they know the
shortcut to success
4.What will be talked about after the last paragraph?
A.The
interviews with more students.
B.The role IQ
plays in learning well.
C.The
techniques to be better learners.
D.The
achievements top students make.
5.What can we infer from the passage?
A.IQ is more
important than hard work in study.
B.The brightest
students can never get low grades.
C.Top students
certainly achieve all-around developments.
D.Students with
average IQ can become super-achievers.