首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Parents often wonder what their little ones are absorbing from them. For example, my mother had a wonderful vocabulary. So it ma
Parents often wonder what their little ones are absorbing from them. For example, my mother had a wonderful vocabulary. So it ma
admin
2013-08-03
50
问题
Parents often wonder what their little ones are absorbing from them. For example, my mother had a wonderful vocabulary. So it may be more than a family fable that when I was asked as a two-year-old whether I was wet, I allegedly responded, "No, I’m saturated.
I was reminded of preposterously precocious utterances during a brief talk that string theorist Brian Greene gave. He said he sometimes wondered about how much information small children pick up from standard dinner-table conversation in a given home. When he hugged his three-year-old daughter and told her he loved her more than anything in the universe, to which she replied, "The universe or the multiverse?" Closer to home, my seven-year-old grandnephew has often exhibited an interest in various science and math topics.
Of course, not all children are destined for a life in the sciences. Many, if not most, seem well suited, if you will, for the law. Take the case of another seven-year-old of my acquaintance who was given " five more minutes" by her parents to enjoy the beach. When they sounded the alarm to leave, she announced that it was simply unfeasible for that much time to have passed: "that wath like 10 thecondth," she explained. Of course, it is possible that she had been moving at relativistic speeds, in which case both she and her parents could have been correct.
After I turned this column in to Scientific American editor in chief Mariette DiChristina, she told a story about her then five-year-old daughter Mallory’s ability to calculate rapidly. Mallory wondered aloud how old Mariette would be when Mallory reached her mom’s age, 42 at the time. "Let’s see...," Mariette began. Then Mallory answered her own question, laughing at her mother’s silliness for even bothering to try to do the math, " Oh, Mom, you’ll be dead! "
The young people discussed so far are obviously charming and insightful. And yet for truly scary little, kid brain activity, it’s hard to beat the very young Carl Friedrich Gauss. As legend has it, the budding mathematician was in grade school when his instructor assigned him the mundane task of adding up all the numbers from 1 to 100. The teacher might have been hoping to catch some zzz’s in the corner while Gauss would be busy adding 1 to 2 to get 3 , then 3 to that sum to get 6, then 4 to that sum to get 10. But just a moment passed—perhaps merely 10 thecondth—before Gauss announced that the answer was 5,050. Which it sure is.
If you don’t know how he did it, just search the Web using the terms "Gauss" and "series. " Or give the problem to a little one. If you get a correct answer almost instantly, he or she might be one of the smartest kids in the multiverse.
Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?
选项
A、More than a Family Fable.
B、Small Children, Big Ideas.
C、Discovering Little "Gauss".
D、Innocent or Profound?
答案
B
解析
主旨题。综合各段中讲述的事例和给出的评价可知,作者表达的重点是孩子们虽然年龄小,但其表现出的认知和学习能力既超出大人的想象,也超出其年龄所应表现的水平,故[B]以对比的方式较恰当地表达了文章的主题,为本题答案。[A]意思较为含糊,应排除;[C]仅局限于儿童的科学天赋,不够全面,也不是适当答案;[D]将儿童身上同时具备的特质对立起来,显然也不符合作者的原意。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/6LLK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Acommonassumptionabouttheprivatesectorofeducationisthatitcatersonlytotheelite.【C1】______recentresearchpoints
Ireallydonotknowwhetherwecansucceed,sodonotexpect______.
Thiscompanyspends$50,000annually______legalcounsel.
Whoishurtbyairpollution?
Thebankmanageraskedhisassistantifitwaspossibleforhimto______theinvestmentplanwithinaweek.
Moviegoersmaythinkhistoryisrepeatingitselfthisweekend.Thesummer’smostanticipatedfilm,PearlHarbor,whichhasopene
TheClarkshaven’tdecidedyetwhichhotel________.
IdecidedtogotothelibraryassoonasI______
MydoctorsaysI’mtooexhaustedandhasadvisedmenotto______anymorework.
Wherewerethegrenadeshidden?
随机试题
某商场系增值税一般纳税人。适用增值税税率为17%。2010年春节期间为进行促销,该商场规定购物每满200元积10分,不足200元部分不积分,积分可在一年内兑换成与积分等值的商品。某顾客购买了售价为5850元(含增值税850元)、成本为4000元的服装,预计
按我国消费税制度规定,下列商品中,属于消费税课税对象的是
李方为平昌公司董事长。债务人姜呈向平昌公司偿还40万元时,李方要其将该款打到自己指定的个人账户。随即李方又将该款借给刘黎,借期一年,年息12%。下列哪些表述是正确的?
如题30图所示,三台同型号水泵在工作环境相同的情况下并联运行,并联时泵的效率点为()。
背景资料:某施工单位承建了一段二级公路路基工程,其中K3+220~K3+650为高填方路堤。路基填方高度最高为21.2m,地面以下有约6m的软土层。施工单位采用强夯处理地基,采用水平分层填筑路堤。高填方路堤横断面示意图如图1所示。
()是从消防安全管理的空间范围上看,消防安全管理活动具有全方位的特征。在日常生产和生活中,可燃物、助燃物和着火源可以说是无处不在,凡是有需要用火或是容易形成燃烧条件的场所,都是容易造成火灾的场所,也就是消防安全管理活动应该涉及的场所。
小红证明命题和定理时,需要将数字符号和概念组合起来运用。这是()
下列各句所涉及的年龄,由小到大排列正确的一项是()①余自束发读书轩中②豆蔻梢头二月初③既加冠,益慕圣贤之道④年近知命,位止方州⑤行行向不惑,淹留遂无成
InalabinOxfordUniversity’sexperimentalpsychologydepartment,researcherRoiCohenKadoshistestingarelativelynewbrai
在考生文件夹下有student(学生)、course(课程)和score(选课成绩)3个表,利用SQL语句完成如下操作:(1)查询每门课程的最高分,要求得到的信息包括"课程名称"和"分数",将查询结果存储到max表中(字段名是"课程名称"和"分数"),并
最新回复
(
0
)