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[A] Defining genius. [B] Bias attacked. [C] Truly great mind is born, not made. [D] The line between the exceptio
[A] Defining genius. [B] Bias attacked. [C] Truly great mind is born, not made. [D] The line between the exceptio
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[A] Defining genius.
[B] Bias attacked.
[C] Truly great mind is born, not made.
[D] The line between the exceptional and the ordinary blurs.
[E] Brain steers, labor facilitates.
[F] Great lesson from a great character.
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means, and the exercise of ordinary qualities. The common life of every day, with its cares, necessities, and duties, afford ample opportunity for acquiring experience of the best kind; and its most beaten paths provide the true worker with abundant scope for effort and room for self-improvement. The road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will usually be the most successful.
1. ______
Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators. In the pursuit of even the highest branches of human inquiry, the commoner qualities are found the most useful--such as common sense, attention, application, and perseverance.
2. ______
Genius may not be necessary, though even genius of the highest sort does not disdain the use of these ordinary qualities; the very greatest men have been among the least believers in the power of genius, and as worldly wise and persevering as successful men of the commoner sort. Some have even defined genius to be only common sense intensified. A distinguished teacher and president of a college spoken of it as the power of making efforts. John Foster held it to be the power of lighting one’s own fire. Buffon said of genius "it is patience".
3. ______
Newton’s was unquestionably a mind of the very highest order, and yet, when asked by what means he had worked out his extraordinary discoveries, he modestly answered, "By always thinking unto them." At another time he thus expressed his method of study: "I keep the subject continually before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." It was in Newton’s case, as in every other, only by diligent application and perseverance that his great reputation was achieved. Even his recreation consisted in change of study, laying down one subject to take up another. To Dr. Bentley, he said: "If I have done the public any service, it is due to nothing but industry and patient thought."
4. ______
The extraordinary results effected by dint of sheer industry and perseverance, have led many distinguished men to doubt whether the gift of genius be so exceptional an endowment as it is usually supposed to be. Thus Voltaire held that it is only a very slight line of separation that divides the man of genius from the man of ordinary mould. Beccaria was even of opinion that all men might be poets and orators, and Reynolds that they might be painters and sculptors. If this were really so, that stolid Englishman might not have been so very far wrong after all, who, on Canova’s death, inquired of his brother whether it was "his intention to carry on the business!"
5. ______
Locked, Helvetius, and Diderot believed that all men have an equal aptitude for genius. But while admitting to the fullest extent the wonderful achievements of labor, and recognizing the fact that men of the most distinguished genius have invariably been found the most indefatigable workers, it must nevertheless be sufficiently obvious that, without the original endowment of heart and brain, no amount of labor, however well applied, could have produced a Shakespeare, a Newton, a Beethoven, or a Michelangelo.
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答案
B
解析
后面的段落指出“人们经常盲目地指责运气;但是运气并不像人类那样盲目”。这说明,该段主要讲的是“驳斥人们的盲目偏见”。B说“驳斥偏见”,这可以表达该段落的主题。
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