4. Cloze

It was Christmas Day 1999. On CNN， talk show host(节目主持人)Larry King was interviewing Stephen Hawking.

”What， professor，(1)you the most?” King asked. ”What do you think about the most?”

Hawking immediately replied， ”(2).”

It‘s a comfort to know that Hawking， one of the(3)men in the world， is puzzled by the opposite sex. But， that‘s not(4)， according to Satoshi Kanazawa. Bright people are(5)better than anyone else at making smart decisions in common things， he says. These(6)finding a mate， maintaining family relationships， raising children， finding the way home， and handling a variety of basic life needs.

That‘s(7)there are several kinds of formal ”intelligence”， Kanazawa argues. Being smart one way does not(8)mean smart in another way. This view is(9)to be controversial(有争议的)among scientists who think about thinking. That is because it(10)with the common view that general intelligence is a single thing. In that view， it is not， as Kanazawa and others say， a set of(11)mental areas.

Kanazawa says that some kinds of intelligence developed slowly over time. Many people have heard about(12)is called ”emotional intelligence”. Now， psychologists have discovered several(13)types of intelligence. These include the ability to learn a language， find a mate， recognize faces， and(14)oneself in a new environment.

But， is there evidence to(15)the theory that intelligence comes in many(16)? Actually， there is quite a lot of evidence， Kanazawa says. If there were only one type of intelligence， he(17)， then people with(18)IQs should be ”smart” in every way.

In one test， a psychologist took a group of subjects(受实验者)on a hike， walking into the forest. He then told them to find their way back. The high IQ people were no more likely to be able to find out(19)they were. In another experiment， a researcher asked people to find their way to a specific location in a computer maze(迷宫).(20)， high IQ did not give them any edge(优势).

1. A. shocks   B. excites   C. puzzles   D. disappoints

2. A. Research   B. Women   C. Universe   D. Science

3. A. disabled   B. smartest   C. weakest   D. poorest

4. A. true   B. new   C. disappointing   D. surprising

5. A. never   B. even   C. no   D. not

6. A. refer   B. contain   C. deal   D. include

7. A. because   B. why   C. what   D. how

8. A. necessarily   B. truthfully   C. reliably   D. reasonably

9. A. unlikely   B. impossible   C. sure   D. certainly

10. A. argues   B. concerns   C . relates   D. disagrees

11. A. independent   B. single   C. current   D. complete

12. A. it   B. which   C. one   D. what

13. A. similar   B. equal   C. else   D. other

14. A. bore   B. arm   C. locate   D. retire

15. A. reflect   B. support   C. reason  D. guard

16. A. types   B. sides   C. forms   D. kinds

17. A. adds   B. thinks   C. agrees   D. doubts

18. A. equal   B. similar   C. high   D. low

19. A. who   B. what   C. where   D. why

20. A. For once   B. All at once   C. Once again   D. Once in a while

5. Reading practice

SYDNEY: As they sat sharing sweets beside a swimming pool in 1999， Shane Gould and Jessicah Schipper were simply getting along well， chatting about sport， life and “ anything else that came up. ”

Yet in Sydney next month， they will meet again by the pool， and for a short time the friends will race against each other in the 50-meter butterfly(蝶泳)in the Australian championships at Homebush Bay.

Gould， now a 47-year-old mother of four， has announced she will be making a return to elite competition(顶级赛事)to swim the one event， having set a qualifying(合格的)time of 30.32 seconds in winning gold at last year’s United States Masters championships. Her comeback comes 32 years after she won three golds at the Munich Olympics.

Schipper， now a 17-year-old from Brisbane with a bright future of going to Athens for her first Olympics， yesterday recalled(回忆)her time with Gould fie years ago.

“ I was at a national youth came on the Gold Coast and Shane had come along to talk to us and watch us train， ” Schipper explained. “ It seemed as if we had long been god friends. I don’t know why. We just started talking and it went from there. ”

“ She had a lot to share with all of us at that camp. She told us stories about what it was like at big meets like the Olympics and what it’s like to be on an Australian team. It was really interesting. ”

Next time， things will be more serious. “ I will still be swimming in the 50m butterfly at the nationals， so there is a chance that I could actually be competing against Shane Gould， ” said Schipper， who burst onto the scene at last year’s national championships with second places in the 100m and 200m butterfly.

1. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Stories happening in swimming competitions.

B. Two women swimmers winning Olympic golds.

C. Lessons learned from international swimming championships.

D. Friendship and competition between two swimmers.

2. Gould and Schipper are going to_____.

A. talk about sport and life   B. go back to elite competition

C. set a qualifying time and win gold    D. take part in the same sports event

3. Gould won her three Olympic golds when she was______.

A. 15   B. 17   C. 22   D. 30

4. The underlined word “ it ” in the fifth paragraph probably refers to____.

A. the Olympics   B. the youth camp

C. the friendship    D. the Australian team

5. What Schipper said showed that she.

A.was no longer Gould’s friend

B.had learned a lot from Gould

C.was not interested in Gould’s stories

D.would not like to compete against Gould

6. Correction

Helen is a twenty-years-old girl. She never had a job 1._________

before. Now she wanted get a job. So she went to meet2._________

Mr Black， the manager of the hotel. Mr Black told3._________

her it was getting very busy in the hotel on the evenings.4._________

He asked her if she was interesting in a part-time job. 5._________

The girl said that she did. Then Mr Black said she had 6._________

to work very faster and that she must be there at six7._________

every afternoon and work from six to ten， Monday to 8._________

Friday. He offered her with 4.5 dollars an hour. Hellen9._________

pleased with the offer and decided to start work the next day.10._________

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