【正文】 for young people to get better always tend to consider ourselves to be privileged don39。re special. They39。 If we adopt these strategies — and most importantly, teach them to our children — they won39。re doing, but just what it is that you39。 There are a couple of ways out of this double bind. First, we can learn to make honest parisons with others. Train yourself to recognize excellence, even when you yourself don39。s a paradox here, the authors note: The skills that lead to petence in a particular domain are often the very same skills necessary to evaluate petence in that field? In other words, to get better at judging how well we39。 their talents. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile (百分位數(shù)) they guessed they were in the 62nd. What these individuals lacked (in addition 9 clear logic, proper grammar and a sense of humor) was meta cognitive skill the capacity to monitor how well they39。s study, subjects scoring at the bottom on tests of logic, grammar and humor extremely overestimated39。re not good at what they do, and their very clumsiness prevents them from recognizing how bad they are.s often exactly when we39。s not just privileged highschool students: we all tend to view ourselves as above average.s egopuncturing (傷自尊的) words. But lost in the uproar (喧囂)was something we really should be taking to heart: our young people actually have no idea whether they39。re anything special, because you39。ve probably heard about the you39。高一英語閱讀理解(教育文化)技巧(很有用)及練習(xí)題及解析一、高中英語閱讀理解教育文化類1．閱讀理解 By now you39。re not special speech, when English teacher David McCullough told graduating seniors at Wellesley High School: Do not get the idea you39。re not. Mothers and fathers present at the ceremony 一 and a whole lot of other parents across the Internet — took issue with McCullough39。re particularly talented or acplished or not. In our eagerness to elevate their selfesteem, we forgot to teach them how to realistically assess their own abilities, a crucial requirement for getting better at anything from math to music to sports. In fact, it39。 Such inflated selfjudgments have been found in study after study and it39。re least petent at a given task that we rate our performance most generously, in a 2006 study published in the journal Medical Education, for example, medical students who scored the lowest on an essay test were the most charitable in their self evaluations, while highscoring students judged themselves much more strictly. Poor students, the authors note, lack insight into their own inadequacy. Why should this be? Another study, led by Cornell University psychologist David Dunning, offers an enlightening explanation. People who are inpetent, he writes with coauthor Justin Kruger, suffer from a “dual burden: they39。 In Dunning and Kruger39。39。re performing. In the absence of that capacity, the subjects arrived at an overly hopeful view of their own abilities. There39。re doing at an activity, we have to get better at the activity itself.t possess it, and pare what you can do against what truly excellent individuals are able to acplish. Second, seek out feedback that is frequent, accurate and specific. Find a critic who will tell you not only how poorly you39。re doing wrong. As Dunning and Kruger note, success indicates to us that everything went right, but failure is more ambiguous: any number of things could have gone wrong. Use this external feedback to figure out exactly where and when you screwed up.t need parents, or a mencement (畢業(yè)典禮)speaker, to tell them that they39。ll already know that they are, or have a plan to get that way.（1）The author thinks the real problem is that t know whether our young people are talented or not people don39。t view themselves as petent because they know their limits39。. need internal honesty with ourselves and external honesty from others best way to get better is to carefully study past success and failure parison with others, one will know where and when he fails parents nor a mencement speaker can tell whether one is special（4）Which can be the best title of this passage? On Making Ourselves More Special39。作者認(rèn)為真正的問題是年輕人不知道如何現(xiàn)實(shí)地評(píng)估自己的能力。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。re particularly talented or acplished or not. In our eagerness to elevate their selfesteem, we forgot to teach them how to realistically assess their own abilities”,可知作者認(rèn)為人們應(yīng)該在喧囂之后記?。含F(xiàn)在的年輕人不知道他們究竟有沒有天賦，其根本原因是他們不知道如何實(shí)際地評(píng)估自己的能力。 （2）考查推理判斷。re not good at what they do, and their very clumsiness prevents them from recognizing how bad they are.”得低分的學(xué)生遭受著雙重負(fù)擔(dān)，即他們不擅長(zhǎng)自己所做的，并且他們的笨拙讓他們無法意識(shí)到自己有多差。故選B。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“First, we can learn to make honest parisons with others. 和Find a critic who will tell you not only how poorly you39。re doing wrong.”可知我們要學(xué)會(huì)誠實(shí)地將自己和他人進(jìn)行比較，也需要一個(gè)人將我們做的不好的，以及做錯(cuò)了什么如實(shí)相告。故選A。根據(jù)最后一段“If we adopt these strategies — and most importantly, teach them to our children — they won39。re special. They39。故選C。2．閱讀理解 s Department of Education makes learning better for these students by providing duallanguage(雙語) programmes.Milady Baez is Deputy Chancellor of English Language Learners and Student Support. She says, The jobs of the future require that our students know more than one language. They are going to be travelling abroad。Middleschoolers might not have jobs on their minds yet. For Kequing Jaing, she likes keeping up her first language, Mandarin. It makes me feel that I am home because I can speak in Chinese and learn in Chinese, while learning in English. So it makes me feel better and makes me understand more about the task I39。Anastasia Hudikova came to the United States when she was 2 years old. She says the RussianEnglish programme keeps her connected to her heritage and her parents. s vital to learn different languages? making parisons. listing people39。s unnecessary to learn more languages in New York City. should be a must though different languages are taught. is spoken by the la