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You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE. What has been found about children of unusual talent

A. Many of them are from middle-class families.
B. There are more girls than boys among them.
C. They are mostly born by natural childbirth.
D. Their parents are usually ambitious and humorous.

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Which of the following is true of Virginia Woolf

A. She was free to enter her father’s library.
B. She often had different views from her classmates when she was in school.
C. She learned more at home than her peers educated in school.
D. She was the only person in her family who hadn’t received university education.

When did Virginia Woolf write fictions

A. 1913—1951.
B. 1912—1951.
C. 1913—1941.
D. 1912—1941.

You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE. What can be inferred from the talk

A. Material wealth goes hand in hand with mental emptiness.
B. Environment plays a decisive role in the development of prodigies.
C. Success has not always brought happiness to prodigies.
D. Public praise will help prodigies to find the value of their lives.

Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase marked A, B, C or D for each numbered blank. The idea that some groups of people may be more intelligent than others is one of those hypotheses that dare not speak its name. But Gregory Cochran is 1 to say it anyway. He is that 2 bird, a scientist who works independently 3 any institution. He helped popularize the idea that some diseases not 4 thought to have a bacterial cause were actually infections, which aroused much controversy when it was first suggested. 5 he, however, might tremble at the 6 of what he is about to do. Together with another two scientists, he is publishing a paper which not only 7 that one group of humanity is more intelligent than the others, but explains the process that has brought this about. The group in 8 are a particular people originated from central Europe. The process is natural selection. This group generally do well in IQ test, 9 12—15 points above the 10 value of 100, and have contributed 11 to the intellectual and cultural life of the West, as the 12 of their elites, including several world-renowned scientists, 13 They also suffer more often than most people from a number of nasty genetic diseases, such as breast cancer. These facts, 14 , have previously been thought unrelated. The former has been 15 to social effects, such as a strong tradition of 16 education. The latter was seen as a (n) 17 of genetic isolation. Dr. Cochran suggests that the intelligence and diseases are intimately 18 His argument is that the unusual history of these people has 19 them to unique evolutionary pressures that have resulted in this 20 state of affairs.

A. thought
B. sight
C. cost
D. risk

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