【題目】 Why are some people successful while others aren't? What's the s【1】 of success? Author Malcolm Gladwell thinks he knows.

Many of Gladwell's ideas a【2】 in his book Outliers. The popular view is that some of us are born talented and others aren't. But Gladwell thinks that this is just an e【3】 for not trying. And if you want to be good at something, you have to w【4】 at it. "Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good."

The central idea of the book is the "10,000-hour rule". It means that if you want to be a【5】 the best in the world, you need to practise something for 10,000 hours. Do you know Bill Gates, the founder of the Microsoft Company? He was given access to a high school at 13, which allowed him to practice computer programming for m【6】 than 10,000 hours.

The interesting thing is that success has n【7】 to do with intelligence (智力). Christopher Langan, who's got an IQ of between 195 and 210 (Albert Einstein's IQ was about between 160 and 180). As a boy at school, Langan was a【8】 to take an exam in a foreign language that he had never studied. And he even passed it after just skimming a text book in a very short time. H【9】 , Langan never graduated from any university and lived a hard life. This p【10】 that intelligence alone is not the key to success.

So, are you ready? Then go for it! You could get success.

【答案】

【1】secret

【2】appear

【3】excuse

【4】work

【5】among

【6】more

【7】nothing

【8】able / asked / allowed

【9】However

【10】proves

【解析】

文章大意：短文主要是對成功秘訣的探討。有人說成功和智商有關(guān)系，但是這不是絕對的，有的人即使智商很高，但最終也沒有成功，所以，想要成功只能通過不斷地努力，不斷的練習(xí)。

【1】

句意：成功的秘訣是什么呢？

根據(jù)上句Why are some people successful while others aren't？為什么有些人能成功而有些人卻不能？和首字母提示可知，空處的詞應(yīng)是名詞“秘密secret”，故答案為secret。

【2】

句意：Gladwell的許多觀點(diǎn)在他的書《異類》中體現(xiàn)出來。

根據(jù)句子主語 Many of Gladwell's ideas他的許多觀點(diǎn)，后面提到Outliers《異類》這本書以及首字母的提示可知，空處的詞應(yīng)是動(dòng)詞“體現(xiàn)appear”；主語為復(fù)數(shù)，時(shí)態(tài)為一般現(xiàn)在時(shí)，所以動(dòng)詞用原形即可，故答案為appear。

【3】

句意：但是Gladwell認(rèn)為這只是不努力的借口。

根據(jù)上句The popular view is that some of us are born talented and others aren't流行的觀點(diǎn)是有些人一出生就天賦異稟，結(jié)合but和首字母提示，后句應(yīng)是“他認(rèn)為這只是人們不努力的借口”；又根據(jù)空前an的提示，空處的名詞應(yīng)用單數(shù)，故答案為excuse。

【4】

句意：如果你想要擅長某件事情，你必須拼命練習(xí)才行。

空處的詞在have to之后應(yīng)為動(dòng)詞原形do；根據(jù)前句And if you want to be good at something如果你想要擅長某件事情，推測出必須拼命練習(xí)才行；結(jié)合首字母提示，空處的動(dòng)詞應(yīng)為work，故答案為work。

【5】

句意：這意味著如果你像成為世界上最好的人，你需要練習(xí)10000個(gè)小時(shí)。

根據(jù)空后the best in the world世界上最好的可知，是如果想要成為世界上最好的人；結(jié)合首字母提示，空處的詞應(yīng)是介詞“在……之中、……之一among”，among the best名列前茅，故答案為among。

【6】

句意：他在13歲時(shí)進(jìn)入一所高中，允許他能夠練習(xí)計(jì)算機(jī)編程超過10000個(gè)小時(shí)。

根據(jù)空后詞than和首字母提示可知，空處的詞應(yīng)是more和than一起構(gòu)成more than表示超過，多余，故答案為more。

【7】

句意：有趣的事情是成功和智力沒有什么關(guān)系。

根據(jù)下文Christopher Langan，who's got an IQ of between 195 and 210這個(gè)人智商很高，和Langan never graduated from any university and lived a hard life Langan未能從大學(xué)畢業(yè)，所以推測出成功和智商之間沒有什么明顯的關(guān)系，have nothing to do with表示與…沒有關(guān)系，故答案為nothing。

【8】

句意：作為一名男生，Langan被允許/能夠參加一門他從未學(xué)過的外語考試。

根據(jù)take an exam in a foreign language that he had never studied沒有學(xué)過卻可以參加考試，這是他本身擁有的一種能力；結(jié)合首字母，空處的詞應(yīng)是able，be able to do sth表示有能力做某事，或被要求/允許參加考試，故填able/ asked /allowed。

【9】

句意：然而，Langan未能從大學(xué)畢業(yè)，過著艱苦的生活。

根據(jù)前句And he even passed it after just skimming a text book in a very short time.他甚至在很短的時(shí)間內(nèi)瀏覽了一本教科書就通過了考試可知，他智商很高；再結(jié)合后句Langan never graduated from any university and lived a hard life. Langan未能從大學(xué)畢業(yè)，過著艱苦的生活和首字母可知，空處的詞是表示轉(zhuǎn)折的詞however然而，故答案為however。

【10】

句意：這證明，僅有智商不是成功的關(guān)鍵。

根據(jù)句子賓語intelligence alone is not the key to success只有智商不是成功的關(guān)鍵，這是前面故事證實(shí)的觀點(diǎn)，再結(jié)合首字母可知，空處的詞應(yīng)是的詞“證明prove”；句子時(shí)態(tài)是一般現(xiàn)在時(shí)，主語This為第三人稱單數(shù)形式，所以動(dòng)詞后要加s，故答案為prove。

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