【正文】 2016年高考英語閱讀理解專項練習題(6) (一)　　Our brains work in plex and strange are some people who can calculate the day of the week for any given date in 40,000 years, but who cannot add two plus can perform plex classical piano pieces after hearing them once, but they cannot read or write.　　 Down first described this condition in called these people idiot idiot savant is a person who has significant mental impairment (損傷) , such as in autism ( 孤獨癥，自閉癥) or the same time, the person also exhibits some extraordinary skills, which are unusual for most skills of the savant may vary from being exceptionally gifted in music or in mathematics, or having a photographic memory.　　One of the first descriptions of a human who could calculate quickly was written in 1789 by Rush, an American patient, Thomas Fuller, was brought to Virginia as a slave took Thomas only 90 seconds to work out that a man who has lived 70 years, 17 days, and 12 hours has lived 2,210,500,800 this ability, he died in 1790 without ever learning to read or write.　　Another idiot savant slave became famous as a pianist in the Tom had a vocabulary of only 100 words, but he played 5 ,000 musical pieces beautifully.　　In the excellent movie Rain Man, made in 1988 and available on video cassette, Dustin Hoffman plays an idiot savant who amazes his brother played by Tom Cruise, with his ability to perform plex calculations very rapidly.　　Today we more clearly recognize that the idiot savant is special because of brain not all brain impairment leads to savant studies have shown that people who have purposeful interruption of the left side of the brain can develop idiot savant few people wish to participate in such are many excellent reasons for not undergoing unnecessary experimentation on one39。s term idiot savant is outdated and all savants have a high degree of intelligence and are thus not idiots.　　 does the passage mainly talk about?　　 savants have areas of outstanding abilities.　　 Beings have plicated thinking process.　　 brains of the idiot savants are partly impaired.　　 reasons why people have wonderful skills vary.　　 of the following can be done by Rain Man?　　 can play wonderful pieces of classical music.　　 can guess out exactly the length of a man39。s life.　　 can memorize the contents of the pictures fast.　　 can count matches dropped on the floor quickly.　　 can you infer from the passage?　　 savants have real talents for art and math.　　 is the first person who found idiot savants.　　 people wish to risk being savants by brain operations.　　 left brain impairments will surely lead to idiot savants.　　 of the following shows the structure of the passage?答案：72—75 ADCB(二)　　Laws that would have ensured pupils from five to 16 received a full financial education got lost in the ‘wash up’. An application is calling on the next government to bring it back.　　At school the children are taught to add up and subtract(減法) but, extraordinarily, are not routinely shown how to open a bank account — let alone how to manage their finances in an increasingly plex and demanding world.　　Today the parenting website Mumsnet and the consumer campaigner Martin Lewis have joined forces to launch an online application to make financial education a pulsory element of the school curriculum in England. Children from five to 16 should be taught about everything from pocket money to pensions, they say. And that was exactly the plan preserved in the Children, Schools and Families bill that was shelved by the government in the socalled “washup” earlier this month — the rush to legislation before parliament was dismissed. Consumer and parent groups believe financial education has always been one of the most frustrating omissions of the curriculum.　　As the Personal Finance Education Group (Pfeg) points out, the good habits of young children do not last long. Over 75% of seven to 11yearolds are savers but by the time they get to 17, over half of them are in debt to family and friends. By this age, 26% see a credit card or overdraft(透支) as a way of extending their spending power. Pfeg predicts that these young people will “find it much harder to avoid the serious unexpected dangers that have befallen many of their parents39。 generation unless they receive good quality financ