【完胜高考】2014届高三一轮复习精品训练：阅读理解(2)(解析版).docVIP

完胜高考2014届高三一轮复习精品训练：阅读理解（2）（解析版） A Child prodigies (神童) cause awe, wonder and sometimes jealousy: how can such young children display the kinds of musical or mathematical talents that most adults will never master, even with years of hard practice? It is widely acknowledged that prodigies are born, not made. Practice alone isnt going to turn out the next 6-year-old Mozart. So finds a recent study of eight famous young prodigies, which sought to make it easier to understand the causes of their talent. The study found a few key characteristics these youngsters had in common. For example, they all had exceptional working memories, far better than ordinary people. Surprisingly, however, the study found that not all of the prodigies had high IQs. Indeed, while they had higher-than-average intelligence, some didnt have IQs that were as remarkable as their early achievements would suggest. The authors also found that prodigies scored high in autistic (自闭症的) features, especially in their extreme attention to details. They scored even higher on this feature than people diagnosed (诊断) with Aspergers syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism (自闭症) that typically includes great enthusiasm about details. Three of the eight prodigies had a diagnosed autism disorder. Four of the eight families included in the study reported autism diagnoses in first-or-second-degree relatives, and three of these families reported a total of 11 close relatives with autism. In the general population, in comparison, about 1 in 88 people have either autism or Aspergers. Other unusual similarities between prodigies and those with autism: theyre both more likely to be male and both are associated with difficult pregnancies, suggesting that what they had gone through before they were born may play a role in their development. Yet, very little research has been done on the connection between autism and extreme talent. As a matter of fact, prodigies appear to benefit from certain autistic tendencies. In