Oscar Wrigley, a two-year-old child with the same IQ as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, has become the youngest boy in Britain to be accepted into Mensa.

A leader at the Gifted Children’s Information Centre said Oscar, with an IQ of at least 160, is one of the brightest children they have ever come across.

Oscar’s father Joe, 29, an IT specialist, said, “He is always asking questions. Every parent likes to think their child is special but we knew there was something very unusual about Oscar. I’m fully expecting the day to come when he turns around and tells me I’m an idiot(白痴).”

Mother Hannah, 26, told The Daily Mail, “He surprises everyone. We knew at 12 weeks he was quite bright. He was unusually quick in mind. The other day he said to me, ‘Mummy, sausages are like a party in my mouth.’ His vocabulary is surprising. He’s able to make complex sentences.”

Dr Peter Congdon, who tested Oscar, said he was a “child of very superior intelligence (超常智力)”. He showed outstanding ability. “Oscar shows great gift. Changing that gift to success is the challenge for his parents and we are pleased that they have chosen to join the Mensa network for support”, he said. Exactly speaking, Oscar was accepted at the age of two years, five months and 11 days.

The youngest British girl to join Mensa is Elise Tan Roberts, from Edmonton, North London, at two years, four months and 14 days, with an IQ of 156.

1. Why was Oscar Wrigley accepted into Mensa?

A．Because he is cleverer than Albert Einstein.

B．Because he has very superior intelligence.

C．Because he is the brightest child in Britain.

D．Because his father is an IT specialist of Mensa.

2. We can infer Mensa is probably the name of _______.

A．the cleverest boy in the world

B．the brightest adult in Britain

C．a club for people with superior intelligence

D．a family with superior intelligence

3. According to the passage, it’s not easy for his parents to ________.

A．change his gift to success	B．answer his questions
C．test his gift	D．know him well

4. The main purpose of the passage is ____________.

A．to tell us a family with the cleverest child

B．to give us some ways to have the same IQ as Albert Einstein

C．to explain how Oscar becomes a clever child

D．to tell us a boy with the same IQ as Albert Einstein

Certainly, a well-rounded education is the foundation of our growth. I am grateful to the many incredible(难以置信的) teachers who have inspired me to do greater things, and have fired my enthusiasm for lifelong learning! I have also been honored to have the most amazing teachers in all of my children’s lives. These are extraordinary people who not only teach our children, but love them, challenge them, and provide an environment where a child learns how to learn.

However, sometimes I wonder if the outline of our educational plan is lacking something. I watched the movie Easy A with my older daughter. The main character’s parents were loving, supportive, and built great confidence in their daughter and developed her ability to handle her own problems.

Maybe we might want to spend time showing them how real life works — the credit card isn’t free money — you will have to pay it back at sometime. Oh, and get this — they charge you for borrowing that money. Perhaps, we should spend some time on interpersonal relationships. I worry that our kids do not know how to relate to one another.

Choosing a career is a daunting task. My daughter is in her second year in college and has changed her major twice. It’s not that she didn’t know what she wanted to do. What she “wanted to do” and the degree she chose did not match.

I have learned many college students do not know what they want to do because they haven’t seen what it looks like in the real world. Being a journalist in the real world looks very different from writing stories. Maybe if we spent some time letting them experience real life — maybe two or three courses in areas of interest in high schools that give them a “feel” for what that particular field would look like, they might be better prepared. I do not know the solution, but it seems that it should at least be a topic of discussion.

5. The underlined word “daunting” in Paragraph 5 probably means “______”.

A．specific	B．regular
C．discouraging	D．temporary

6. The author believes that ______.

A．students need to focus on the skills in learning

B．parents should agree with school in education

C．his daughter is smart enough to make her own choice

D．courses in areas of interest in high schools will benefit students

7. What is mainly discussed in the passage?

A．Schools should prepare students for the real life.

B．Students should spend more time discussing practical problems.

C．What students learn in school should be practiced in life.

D．Life experience is of greater importance than school education

My wife and I, recently driving through Arizona, stopped at a “collector’s shop” in Tucson, where many kinds of stones and minerals were on display. During the visit, we were taken into a small room where ordinary looking rocks were laid out on shelves. Had I seen them on some hillside, I would not have given them a second thought. Then the man closed the door so that the room was in total darkness and turned on an ultraviolet lamp (紫外线灯). Instantly, the rocks showed a kind of glory. Brilliant colors of an indescribable beauty were there before our eyes: certain power had been switched on, and a hidden world came to life.

As I look at my universe and walk among my fellow humans, I have the deep belief that hidden realities are all around us: there in the physical world, and there also in the human world.

I believe, then, that my chief job in life is to switch on extra power so that I can see what my naked eyes（裸眼）, or my naked mind, cannot see now. I believe that I have to do this particularly with my human fellows. My ordinary eyes tend to stop short at those envelopes we call human bodies. But we have learned that by turning on certain power we can see through to the inside of these envelopes.

We call this extra power “imagination”. At its highest, we call it “empathy”, the power to see through and to feel through to the inner life of other human beings. When we turn on this lamp of imaginative sensitivity, we make the ordinary human beings around us come excitingly alive.

When we are aware that there are glories of life still hidden from us, we walk humbly (谦逊地) before the Great Unknown. But we do more than this: we try to increase our power of seeing and feeling so that we can turn what is still unknown into what is warmly and understandably known. This, I believe, is our great human adventure.

8. Why does the writer mention their visit to the collector’s shop?

A．To share his experience.	B．To explain his point
C．To introduce the topic.	D．To provide evidence

9. Which of the following does the writer agree with?

A．He saw the very rocks on some hillside before.

B．Hidden realities remain in the physical world.

C．Ordinary minds can never reach other’s inside.

D．We should stay humble when we are still unknown.

10. It can be referred to as a great human adventure that ___________.

A．we try hard to discover the hidden glories of life

B．our eyes stop short at ordinary human beings

C．we are aware of the truth of hidden realities

D．we walk humbly before the Great Unknown

A lot of people live their lives having no clue what they want. If you ask me, I’d like to point out that you have only one life.    11    You should start right now!If you don’t want to spend your life wandering aimlessly, you can use the following four tips to find out exactly what you want in life.1.Regret nothingIt’s your life. It’s time for you to live it exactly the way you want to. If you constantly regret things you did or didn’t do in the past, then you won’t be able to move forward. Don’t live in the past.    12    2. Figure out what you needSometimes it’s hard to figure out what you need.    13    Is it your family? The freedom to express yourself?Love?Financial security?Something else? If it helps, you can make a list of priorities. Also think about the kind of legacy (遗产)you want to leave behind.3. Let people around you know what you’re trying to achieve    14    Voice them all out! If you tell people what you’re trying to accomplish, they will most likely support you and give you new ideas.4. Stay positive.Life doesn’t always go the way you want it. Don’t feel discouraged as your plans stray(偏离). Take control.    15    You will get there someday. You’re just taking a little detour. Sometimes a positive attitude is all you need to keep going.

A．Live in the present and the future!

B．Don’t keep your goals and desires to yourself.

C．Sit down and think about what you need the most.

D．Instead of going crazy, try your best to deal with the changes.

E．Setting a goal can help you experience everything you want in life.

F．You should get the most out of it and do things that make you happy.

G．Once you find the thing that makes you happy the most, you will have a clear idea of what you should strive for.