Question

Jaya is sixteen, but he doesn’t go to school. He studies medicine at New York University in a class of twenty-year-olds. Jaya was born in Madras in India but now lives in a house in New York with his mother, father and brother. They can all speak English. His father is a doctor.

Jaya was different from a very young age. He could count before he could say “Mummy” or “Daddy”. He could answer questions on calculus (微积分) when he was five and did algebra(几何) when he was eight. Now he studies from 8:15am to 4: 00am every day at the university. Then he studies at home with his father from 6:30 to 10:00 every evening. Jaya doesn’t have any friends. He thinks other children can’t understand him. He never goes out in the evenings, but he sometimes watches TV. He says, “I live for one thing — I want to be a doctor before I am nineteen.”

1.Is Jaya very clever?

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2.Where was Jaya born?

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3.Who teaches him medicine at home?

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4.What was Jaya very interested in when he was very young, math or medicine?

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5.Why doesn’t Jaya make friends?

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Answer 1

【答案】

1.Yes,he is.  / Yes.

2.In Madras ( in India)./He was born In Madras in India.

3.His father.

4.Math

5.(Because he thinks) other children can’t understand him.

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了一个智商很高的男孩Jaya，他在很小的时候就表现出与众不同的智商，但是他的朋友很少，因为同龄人很难理解他说的话。

1.根据Jaya is sixteen, but he doesn’t go to school. He studies medicine at New York University in a class of twenty-year-olds.及下文描述，可知他比一般孩子智商要高。故答：Yes,he is.  / Yes.

2.根据Jaya was born in Madras in India 描述，可知答：In Madras ( in India)./He was born In Madras in India.

3.根据Then he studies at home with his father from 6:30 to 10:00 every evening.及上文His father is a doctor.可知他的父亲教他医学，故答：His father.

4.根据He could answer questions on calculus (微积分) when he was five and did algebra(几何) when he was eight.描述，可知他对数学感兴趣。故答：Math

5.根据He thinks other children can’t understand him. 描述，可知答：(Because he thinks) other children can’t understand him.

考点：关于一个高智商的男孩的记述文阅读

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