【正文】 d 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。作者認為真正的問題是年輕人不知道如何現(xiàn)實地評估自己的能力。 （1）考查細節(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際地評估自己的能力。 （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)生遭受著雙重負擔(dān)，即他們不擅長自己所做的，并且他們的笨拙讓他們無法意識到自己有多差。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)會誠實地將自己和他人進行比較，也需要一個人將我們做的不好的，以及做錯了什么如實相告。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。3．閱讀理解 t there. The result is that graduates cannot enter the professions for which they were trained and must take temporary jobs which do not require a college degree. These people have more work than they can deal with, and their annual ines are often higher than those of college graduates. The old gap that whitecollar workers make a better living than bluecollar workers no longer holds true. The law of supply and demand now favours the skilled workmen. t matter. Everybody should go to college, so of course they must go. And every year college enrollments (入學(xué)) go up and up, and more and more graduates are overeducated for the kinds of jobs available to them. s implied but not stated in the passage that . A.whitecollar workers in the US used to make more money than bluecollar workersC.the law of supply and demand has a strong effect on American higher education（2）Which of the following is NOT a reason why college enrollments go up every year? A.Many parents want their children to go to college.C.Every young man and woman wants to go to college.（3）By saying many people go to college who do not belong there, the author means that . people who are not fit for college education go to college people who do not have enough money go to college people who go to college drop out within the first year people who go to college have their hopes destroyed（4）We can infer from the passage that the author believes that . young man and woman should go to college education is a bad thing with a college education should receive higher pay people should go to college while more should be trained for skilled jobs【答案】 （1）B（2）D（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，通過調(diào)查告訴人們要改變傳統(tǒng)的觀念:應(yīng)首先考慮選擇技術(shù)性的工作——因為它缺乏人才,待遇更高。根據(jù)第三段中的“The old gap that whitecollar workers make a better living than bluecollar workers no longer holds true. The law of supply and demand now favours the skilled workmen.” 可推知白領(lǐng)工人以前比藍領(lǐng)工人賺的錢多,故選B。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“Parents begin indoctrinating (灌輸) their children with this myth before they are out of grade school. High school teachers play their part by acting as if high school education were a preparation for college rather than for life. Whether they want to go to college or not doesn39。 （3）考查句義猜測。 （4）考查推理判斷。接著又分析了造成這種狀況的原因。所有這些都在暗示人們,上大學(xué)的人應(yīng)該減少,而參加技術(shù)工作的人應(yīng)該增多，故選D。4．閱讀短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中, 選出最佳選項。 Hobbies in general are being something of the past. Our lives are already filled with classes, homework, working, relationships and sleeping. When we do have a spare moment, it is all too easy to spend it on the endless entertainment and media that are right at our fingertips.ve never picked up a camera or a guitar.t be to bee rich and famous. For most people, a hobby is just something they enjoy doing for the purpose of the thing itself. Such hobbies are still very useful. Studies have shown that people who have a hobby are less likely to have stress and more likely to have more meaningful lives. Sure, it39。s next great people. If not, you39。All people should learn to relax.B.s people have little time for hobbies.C.People39。They may take up too much time.B.They sometimes can bring us stress.D.We should start a hobby now.B.t easy.C.d better develop a hobby at school.D.s the author39。To introduce some helpful