Anyone who doubts that children are born with a healthy amount of ambition need spend only a few minutes with a baby eagerly learning to walk or a headstrong toddler starting to talk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their initial efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is only several years later, around the start of middle or junior high school, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed and end up joining the ranks of underachievers.
It’s not quite that simple. “Kids can be given the opportunities to become passionate about a subject or activity, but they can’t be forced, ” says Jacquelynne Eccles, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, who led a landmark, 25-year study examining what motivated first grade students in three school districts. Even so, a growing number of educators and psychologists do believe
A. A sudden lack of motivation is attributed to the student’s failure.
B. Book knowledgeis not as important as practical experience.
C. Looking smart is more important for young people at school.
D. To achieve academic excellence should not be treated as the top priority.
Passage 2
There are two aspects which determine an individual’s intelligence. The first is the brain he is born (71) Human brains differ considerably, (72) being more able than others. (73) no matter how good a brain he has to begin with, an individual will have a low order of intelligence (74) he has opportunities to learn. So the second aspect is what (75) to the individual — the environment in which he is brought (76) . If an individual is handicapped (77) , it is likely that his brain will (78) to develop and he will (79) attain the level of intelligence of which he is (80) .
In order to understand, however imperfectly, what is meant by "face", we must take (1) of the fact that, as a race, the Chinese have a strongly (2) instinct. The theatre may almost be said to be the only national amusement, and the Chinese have for theatricals a (3) like that of the Englishman (4) athletics, or the Spaniard for bull-fights. Upon very slight provocation, any Chinese regards himself in the (5) of an actor in a drama. He throws himself into theatrical attitudes, performs the salaam, falls upon his knees, prostrates himself and strikes his head upon the earth, (6) circumstances which to an Occidental seem to make such actions superfluous, (7) to say ridiculous. A Chinese thinks in theatrical terms. When roused in self-defense he addresses two or three persons as if they were a multitude. He exclaims: "I say this in the presence of You, and You, and You, who are all here present. " If his trouble
A. happens
B. means
C. relates
D. occurs
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