《2025年新坐标名题汇高中英语必修第一册外研版》

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Teachers first noticed Cameron Thompson's talent for numbers when he was four years old and at pre-school. Throughout primary school，Cameron Thompson's best subject was maths. Then，when he was eleven，he took a maths test prior to entering secondary school. The test was out of 140；Cameron scored 141. "I broke the system，" he recalls.
Since then，he has continued to progress quickly. He passed two GCSEs (maths and further maths) at the age of eleven and then got the highest grade in his maths A-level before the end of that same academic year. He is now fourteen years old and studying for a degree in maths，a remarkable achievement at his age.
But his academic achievements have not always been matched by social success. "I have the social ability of a talking potato，" he admits. In other words，he feels more at ease with numbers than among other teenagers.
Communication is not one of Cameron's strong points and，apart from the problems this causes socially，it is now beginning to affect his marks in mathematics. This is because，at undergraduate level，he is expected to give reasons for his answers together with the answers themselves. Cameron's difficulty is that he often doesn't know how he has arrived at the answers，even though the answers are usually correct.
Cameron and his family have recently moved house and Cameron is expected to start at a new school. He regards it as a chance to make a fresh start and make some friends. But his mother，Alison，has a few worries concerning his lack of social skills. While she describes Cameron as "very sensitive"，she also accepts the fact that he is socially naive and often unaware of signals from other people.
The new school specialises in dealing with students who，like Cameron，are academically excellent but find it difficult to relate to other students. And indeed，on his first day，Cameron did make a new friend—a boy called Tim—mainly because of a shared dislike of a certain singer's music.
Recently，a maths professor from Cambridge University has been looking at Cameron's work. Professor Imre Leader thinks Cameron should slow down，stop taking maths exams，and wait until he is eighteen before doing a degree. "There's quite an important distinction，" he explains，"between taking lots of exams as fast as you can，and relaxing and enjoying the level that you are at—what we call enrichment." Professor Leader believes Cameron will do better in the long run if he stops trying to progress so quickly. Although Cameron does want to finish his current degree，he isn't making any academic plans beyond that. He goes to a weekly karate class and a computer games convention with some friends after school.
Thanks to the new school，he feels less isolated and unusual than he did before. "There are other people like me—high maths abilities，bad school lives—I'm not alone."
4. Between the ages of four and ten，what can we learn about Cameron?
A. He showed the outstanding ability in maths.
B. He noticed a loss of ambition academically.
C. He did better than other students at various school subjects.
D. He didn't really fulfill his promise at maths.
5. What's the influence of Cameron's problems with communication on him?
A. They are getting worse recently.
B. They haven't affected his popularity at school.
C. They are irrelevant to maths grades.
D. They have been affecting his maths ability.
6. What can we know from Paragraph 6?
A. Tim has something in common with Cameron.
B. Tim is even better at maths.
C. Tim has even more severe problems with communication.
D. Tim took a strong dislike to Cameron from the first day.
7. What should Cameron do according to Professor Leader?
A. Continue with his degree.
B. Have a temporary break from his degree.
C. Give up maths completely for a few years.
D. Try to speed up his progress.

答案： 4. A 5. D 6. A 7. B