2016届高考英语命题猜想与仿真押题：专题14 阅读理解（仿真押题）（原卷版）_高考复习指南

2016届高考英语命题猜想与仿真押题：专题14 阅读理解（仿真押题）（原卷版）

　　5.The author wrote the text in order to

　　A.inform us of a new study

　　B.introduce a research method

　　C.teach how to choose shoes

　　D.describe different personalities

　　Passage 4　

　　话题：高智商的人

　　udent of Harvard University.He graduated with high scores at the age of 16 and entered Harvard Law School at 18.

　　Gifted with an amazing IQ between 220 and 230，Terence Tao makes it to this list of the people with the highest IQ in the world.Born in Adelaide，Australia in 1975，this genius first displayed his incredible intelligence at a mere age of 2，when he managed to solve basic arithmetic questions on his own.At the age of 16，he graduated with both Master's and Bachelor's degrees at Flinders University.He has been considered as “Mr.Fix it ” by Charles Fefferman，who is a professor of Mathematics at Princeton University，and many other mathematicians want to interest him in their problems.

　　This 31－year－old Japanese－American astrophysicist lands him third in this list.At the age of 12－level coursesics Olympiad.

　　At the age of 16，he was already working with NASA on its project to conquer planet Mars.After he was awarded the Ph.D.at Princeton University，he went back to California Institute of Technology.

　　The next person with very high IQ is Albert Einstein.With an IQ between 160 and 190，Albert Einstein is the genius behind the theory of relativity，which has had a great impact on the world of science.He possessed such an amazing ability that after his death，researchers were eager to preserve and make research on his brain in search for clues to his exceptional brilliance，which to this day，has remained a mystery.