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Geniuses amaze us, impress us and make us all a little jealous．How do they differ from the average person? Scientists are working hard to figure out that answer．Tune in to the National Geographic Channel to find out about the discoveries they’re making in the series My Brilliant Brain.
When Marc Yu was only two years old, he began to play the piano．After a year, he started learning pieces by Beethoven．Now he’s a world-famous concert pianist at age eight．He learns newer and more difficult pieces with ease and can identify any note he hears．He seems to be specially designed for music．In Born Genius, National Geographic looks at the science behind child prodigies (神童) to explain why some children seem to be born without limits.
Genius didn’t come naturally to Tommy McHugh．His came only after he nearly died from bleeding in his brain．After recovering, McHugh’s head was filled with new thoughts and pictures．So, he began to express them in the form of poetry and art．Now, he’s a seemingly unstoppable creative machine．Sufferers of autism and brain injury have shown that great mental ability can sometimes come from damage or disease．Accidental Genius explores this puzzling relationship.
Can normal people be trained to be geniuses? Susan Polger has shown no signs of extraordinary intelligence．Yet, during her childhood, she studied thousands of chess patterns and learned to recognize them immediately．As a result, she was able to beat skilled adult players by age 10 and can now play up to five games at the same time without even seeing the boards．Make Me a Genius examines what it takes to turn an ordinary brain into that of a genius.
If becoming a genius were easy, we’d all be one．Yet, there is much more to super intelligence than simply being born lucky．Learn more about amazing brains this month on National Geographic’s My Brilliant Brain.
51．My Brilliant Brains is most probably from _______.
A．a website           B．the radio               C．a magazine          D．a newspaper
52．The author takes Marc Yu as an example to show that a child prodigy is        .
A．a person who learns something easily
B．a child who is eager to learn new things
C．a student who practices an instrument a lot
D．a kid who works hard to do well in school
53．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A．New things about the brain are still being discovered.
B．People without natural abilities can learn to do things well.
C．Some people naturally have more active brains.
D．People are usually smarter when they recover from brain injury.
54．From the passage, we know that ___________
A．scientists completely understand the brain
B．people can only be born as geniuses
C．there’s no such thing as a true genius
D．there are many factors in being a genius
55．The author develops the passage mainly by ___________.
A．providing typical examples
B．following the natural time order
C．presenting a cause and analyzing its effects
D．comparing opinions from different scientists

首先请阅读下列6出电影的简要介绍，并按照要求匹配信息。

A．It is about the legend of vampire, the story of the wolf man, the campus life, moved love story, horror, adventure and other elements. The story begins with the main character, Isabella (Bella) Swan, moving from Phoenix, to the small town of Forks, a dreary and rain-filled place, to live with her father. She develops a relationship with fellow student, Edward Cullen, who initially annoys her, but despite a rough beginning, they fall in love. After witnessing some strange behavior from Edward, Bella eventually discovers that he is a vampire, but despite the very real risk to her life, she cannot bear to be apart from him. Eventually Bella is introduced to Edward’s vampire family, not all of who welcome her with open arms, however, it is Edward’s family that go to great lengths to save Bella when her life is threatened.

B. With an absent father and a withdrawn and depressed mother, 17 year-old Ree Dolly keeps her family together in a dirt poor rural area. She's taken backwards however when the local Sheriff（县治安官） tells her that her father put up their house for his bail（保释）and unless he shows up for his trial in a week's time, they will lose it all. She knows her father is involved in the local drug trade and manufactures crystal meth but anywhere she goes the message is the same: stay out of it and stop poking your nose in other people's business. She refuses to listen, even after her father's brother, Teardrop, tells her he's probably been killed. She pushes on, putting her own life in danger, for the sake of her family until the truth, or enough of it, is revealed.

C. Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted（妄想的） player in this deceitful new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption（赎）. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible-inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move...

D. Reflecting on her earlier life, she observes that for most of it she was either with a man or in the process of leaving one, and so in the first stages of her journey she experiments with singleness. Not with solitude, exactly, since Liz is naturally sociable and acquires friends easily. Back home in New York she has Delia, and in Rome a Swedish woman named Sofi introduces her to an amicable（心平气和）group of Italians, including a fellow whose last name is Spaghetti. While he is seen mainly in group shots, his namesake food is filmed in loving close-ups. In keeping with the theme of self-examination, Liz’s trip is confined to countries that begin with the letter “I”. From the ruins of Italy, to an ashram in India, and then to Indonesia......

E. John Crowley is a worried businessman and father of two children stricken with Pompe disease, suffering of muscle deterioration（恶化）with an age expectancy of nine years. With critical birthdays looming on the horizon, Crowley decides to take a chance and pursue research scientist Robert Stonehill, a rebellious thinker in the field of Pompe with radical ideas on enzyme therapy. Promising money he doesn't necessarily have, Crowley talks Stonehill into a business venture, pushing the irascible（暴躁的） scientist into research while he worries about the cash flow. With the clock ticking, Stonehill presents challenging theories, irritating the interest of pharmaceutical giants, who demand results practically overnight. With Stonehill feeling the heat during this demoralizing process, Crowley fights to maintain the face of Pompe, to keep the cure from becoming just another compromised drug on the market.

F. Bob Ho, a Chinese spy who was loaned to the CIA and is now retiring so he can settle down and marry his girlfriend, Gillian, who lives next door and doesn't know he's a spy. She thinks he's a pen importer. Around her, Bob acts like a boring country man, wears eyeglasses, and hides his super-spy abilities. Gillian loves that he's normal and reliable, not like her ex-husband, who ran off and left her with three kids. So Gillian has to go out of town because her father's in the hospital, and Bob volunteers to babysit so he can bond with the children. Meanwhile, a Russian terrorist named Poldark has escaped CIA custody and is looking for a top-secret code that young Ian accidentally downloaded from Bob's computer, which means Poldark and his goons are going to show up any minute now and kill them all. Bob must save the children -- and the world!

以下是电影中的部分对白，请匹配适合他们的电影。

1.A. Yeah. I'm in love. I'm having a relationship with my pizza. You look like you're breaking up

with the    pizza. What's the matter?

    B: I can't.

    A: What do you mean, you can't? This is pizza in Napoli. It is your moral imperative to eat that pizza.

    B: I want to, but I've gained, like, 10 pounds. I mean, I've got this.... Right here. What's it called? What's the word?

    A: A muffin top. I have one too.

2.  A: C came by looking for Dad. If he don't show up for his court date, we're gonna lose the house. I gotta     get down to the Arkansas line.

    B: I gotta ask him. It's his truck. He said no.

    A: Did you tell him I'd spring for gas?

    B: I told him. He still won't.

    A: Why not?

3.A: Dream within a dream, huh. I'm impressed. But in my dream, you play by my rules.

    B: Yes, but you see Mr. A...

    C: We're not in your dream.

    B: We're in mine.

4.  A: Can we go back to business?

    B: Would it help to mention I'm retired?

    A: Retired men don't download secrets.

    B: I never downloaded anything.

    C: He's lying.

    B: Who are you going to believe? Me or the traitor?

    D: Someone has been a very naughty boy. He's got cameras and microphones mounted all over the     place.

    D: Good plan, filming us together.

    B: How could you turn against your country?

5.  A: You're B, the new girl. Hi, I'm A, the eyes and ears of this place. Anything you need, tour guide, lunch date, shoulder to cry on?

    B: I'm really kind of the more suffer-in-silence type.

    A: Good headline for your feature. I'm on the paper, and you're news, baby, front page.

    B: No, I'm not. You...Please don't have any sort of...

    A: Chillax. No feature.

    B: Okay, thanks.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

We recently treated our new-adult son and his girlfriend to a seafood feast, near Cocoa Beach, Florida. Our server, a grandmotherly woman skilled in the art of___36_____, flew around the ___37_____juggling dishes and drinks while treating customers as individuals. She remembered their ____38_____tastes likes and dislikes –all of which she’d learned after only the briefest ____39_____.

At the end of the meal, she presented the bill, and then went to____40_____ the growing crowd of other dinners. My husband ___41____with a credit card, added her___42____, and we were off.  

“Mr. Goldsmith!” our waitress ran out of the dining room waving a receipt at him, “Thank you.”

He looked at her as though he didn’t __43_____. We’ve all seen that universal___44___ of confusion—eyebrows drawn together and head cocked to one side

“What did you give her?” I asked in a stage whisper, ____45___if he had done something __46___ or made a calculation error.

“Wow, Dad,” our son said, ___47___like an awestruck 10 –year-old. “I’ve never seen a waitress ____48____anyone out of the restaurant to say ‘thank you’ for the tip.

“She gave us great service. I just thought she deserved a little bump __49_____ what I usually give.”

It wasn’t until later, when I accidentally heard our  ___50____retelling the story of the ___51___waitress, that I realized she had given my family something___52___ a “thank you”. She showed our son the importance of ___53_____hard work and the rewarding sound of “thank you”. Her show of thanks helped a dad earn a bit more ___54___from a loving son. And it reminded me just why I ___55____this thoughtful, caring man.

As a young man, Al was a skilled artist, a potter. He had a wife and two fine sons. One night, his oldest son   36   a severe stomachache and died suddenly. To make matters worse, his wife left him a short time later,   37   him alone with his six-year- old younger son. The hurt and pain of the two situations were _ 38 _ Al could handle, and he _ 39   to alcohol. Al began to lose everything he possessed---his home, his land, his art objects, everything.   40   he died alone in a San Francisco motel room.

When I heard of Al’s death, I reacted with the same disdain（蔑视）the world shows for one who ends his life with nothing   41 _ left. “What a complete failure!” I thought. “What a totally   42__   life!”

As time went by, I began to re-evaluate my earlier _ 43   judgment. You see, I knew Al’s now adult son, Ernie. He is one of the kindest, most   44   most loving men I have ever known. I watched Ernie with his children and saw the free   45   of the love between them. I knew that kindness and caring had to come   46   somewhere.

I hadn’t heard Ernie talk much about his father. It is so hard to   47   an alcoholic. One day I get up my   48   to ask him. “I’m really puzzled by something,” I said. “I know your father was basically the only one to   49   you.   50   on earth did he do that you became such a special person?

Ernie sat _ 51 _ and thought for a few moments. Then he said, “From my  _52    memories as a child until I left home at 18, Al came into my room every night, gave me a __53   and said, “I love you, son.”

Tears came to my eyes as I realized what a fool I had been to   54   Al as a failure. He had not left any material possession behind,   55   he left behind one of the finest, most giving men I have ever known.

1.A. obtained         B. developed      C. cured            D. recovered

2. A. taking          B. locking            C. finding      D. leaving

3.A. more than        B. less than          C. other than   D. rather than

4. A. got             B. turned         C. loved            D. changed

5.A. Luckily          B. Suddenly          C. Eventually       D. Jokingly

6. A. material        B. expensive      C. real         D. special

7.A. happy            B. thoughtful     C. deserted     D. wasted

8.A. angry            B. sharp          C. actual           D. proper

9.A. handsome         B. rich             C. caring            D. ordinary

10.A. flow            B. rise              C. fly               D. move

11.A. out             B. from           C. up           D. down

12.A. defend          B. become        C. discuss           D. argue

13.A. confidence          B. courage           C. belief            D. strength

14. A. feed           B. love              C. care          D. raise

15.A. How                 B. What              C. Why           D. Which

16. A. angrily      B. comfortably         C. quietly          D. excitedly

17.A. earliest      B. nearest         C. best         D. hardest

18.A. pat           B. lesson          C. kiss         D. present

19.A. judge     B. say             C. remember     D. respect

20.A. so            B. and             C. but          D. or

The hardworking businessman Jones used to work all day in his shop and so hard-working was he that at times he would make the sparks(火星) fly from his hammer.
The son of Mr. Smith, a rich neighbor, used to come to see him every day and for hours and hours he would enjoy himself watching how the man worked.
“ Young man, why don’t you try your hand to learn to make shoe tacks (钉) , even if it is only to pass the time ? ” said Jones. “ Who knows, one day, it may be of use to you .”
The lazy boy began to see what he could do. But after a little practice he found that he was becoming very skilled and soon he was making some of the finest tacks.
Old Mr. Smith died and the son because of the war lost all his goods. He had to leave home and was forced to live in another country. It so happened that in this village there were many shoemakers who were spending a lot of money buying tacks for their shoes and even at times when they paid high prices they were not always able to get what they wanted, because in that part of the country there was a high demand for soldiers’ shoes.
Our young Mr. Smith, who was finding it difficult to earn his daily bread, remembered that once upon a time he had learned the art of making tacks and had the sudden idea of making a bargain with the shoemakers. He told them that he would make the tacks if they would help to get him settled in the workshop. The shoemakers were only too glad of the offer. And after a while, Mr. Smith found that he was soon making the finest tacks in the village.
“ How funny it seems, ” he used to say, “ even making tacks can make money. My trade is more useful to me than all my former riches.”
【小题1】The young man learnt to make shoe tacks because ___________.