高三英语阅读理解解题技巧及练习题及解析.docxVIP

（英语）高三英语阅读理解(教育文化)解题技巧及练习题及解析 一、高中英语阅读理解教育文化类 阅读理解 By now youve probably heard about the youre not special speech, when English teacher David McCullough told graduating seniors at Wellesley High School: Do not get the idea youre anything special, because youre not. Mothers and fathers present at the ceremony 一 and a whole lot of other parents across the Internet — took issue with McCulloughs ego-puncturing (伤自尊的) words. But lost in the uproar (喧嚣)was something we really should be taking to heart: our young people actually have no idea whether theyre particularly talented or accomplished or not. In our eagerness to elevate their self-esteem, we forgot to teach them how to realistically assess their own abilities, a crucial requirement for getting better at anything from math to music to sports. In fact, its not just privileged high-school students: we all tend to view ourselves as above average. Such inflated self-judgments have been found in study after study and its often exactly when were least competent at a given task that we rate our performance most generously, in a 2006 study published in the journal Medical Education, for example, medical students who scored the lowest on an essay test were the most charitable in their self evaluations, while high-scoring students judged themselves much more strictly. Poor students, the authors note, lack insight into their own inadequacy. Why should this be? Another study, led by Cornell University psychologist David Dunning, offers an enlightening explanation. People who are incompetent, he writes with coauthor Justin Kruger, suffer from a “dual burden: theyre not good at what they do, and their very clumsiness prevents them from recognizing how bad they are. In Dunning and Krugers study, subjects scoring at the bottom on tests of logic, grammar and humor -extremely overestimated their talents. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile ( 百 分 位 数 ) they guessed they were in the 62nd. What these individu