单项选择题
Given the lack of fit between (62) students and their schools, it is not surprising that such students often have (63) good to say about their school experience. In one study of 400 adults who had achieved (64) in all areas of life, researchers found that three-fifths of these individuals either did badly in school or were unhappy in school. Few MacArthur Prize fellows, (65) of the MacArthur Award for (66) accomplishment, had good things to say about their (67) schooling if they (68) in advanced programs. Anecdotal (名人轶事) reports support this. Pablo Picasso, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Oliver Gold Smith, and William Butler Yeats all disliked school. (69) did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow, a(n) (70) British school. Often these children realize that they know more than their teachers, and their teachers often feel that these children are (71) , inattentive, or unmotivated.
Some of these gifted people may have done poorly in school because their gifts were not (72) . Maybe we can (73) Picasso in this way. But most fared poorly in school not because they lacked ability (74) because they found school (75) and consequently lost interest. Yeats described the lack of (76) between his mind and school: "Because I had found it difficult to attend to anything less interesting than my own thoughts, I was difficult to teach." As noted earlier, gifted children of all kinds tend to be strong-willed (77) . Nonconformity and stubbornness (and Yeats’s level of arrogance and self-absorption) are likely to lead to (78) with teachers.
When highly gifted students in any (79) talk about what was important to the development of their abilities, they are (80) more likely to mention their families (81) their schools or teachers.
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