题型：阅读选择 题类： 难易度：普通
广东省深圳市2024-2025学年九年级上学期期中考试模拟试卷英语试卷
Once, three fish lived in a pond. One evening, some fishermen passed by the pond and saw the fish. "This pond is full of fish," they told each other excitedly. "We have never fished here before. We must come back tomorrow morning with our nets and catch these fish!" So saying, the fishermen left.
When the eldest of the three fish heard this, he was afraid. He called the other fish together and said, "Did you hear what the fishermen said? We must leave this pond at once. The fishermen will return tomorrow and kill us all!"
The second of the three fish agreed. "You are right," he said. "We must leave the pond."
But the youngest of the three fish laughed. "You are worrying without reason," he said. "We have lived in this pond all our lives, and no fisherman has ever come here. Why should these men return? I'm not going anywhere—my luck will keep me safe."
The eldest of the three fish left the pond that evening with his entire family. The second fish saw the fishermen coming in the distance early next morning and left the pond at once with all his family. The third fish refused to leave even then.
The fishermen arrived and caught all the fish left in the pond, including the third fish's luck.
There are many geniuses who changed the world in history, such as Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton. They all had great ideas that have lived on long after their deaths. Now let's take a look at four of the smart people alive today.
Christopher Langan | Born in San Francisco in 1952, Christopher Langan is a special kind of genius. By the time he was four, he'd already taught himself how to read. At high school, he taught himself math, physics, Latin and Greek. It was reported that his IQ should be between 195 and 210. |
Judit Polgdr | Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1976, Judit Polgar is called as without doubt the best woman chess player in history. Polgar was a chess-playing genius and she first defeated(打败) an international master, Dolfi Drimer when she was just 10. It was reported that her IQ should be 170. |
Mislav Predavec | Mislav Predavec is a math professor with a reported IQ of 190. Predavec was born in Zagreb in 1967, and his great abilities were obvious from a young age. He runs a trading company Preminis. |
Paul Allen | Allen has an IQ of between 160 and 170. He was born in 1953 in Seattle and made friends with Bill Gates while still at school. He attended Washington State University but gave up his study in 1974 and then talked(劝说) Gates into leaving Harvard. The following year, the pair founded Microsoft in New Mexico. |
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