成才无秘诀。然而，他山之石，可以攻玉。本书23篇短文是精选了近年来发表在美国刊物上的有关成才问题的文章。读后你会在精神上获得多方面的享受，会欣赏到文风各异的篇章，会提高英语阅读水平。

全书分成功探秘、柳暗花明、爱的力量、心理会诊、夺冠之路、青出于蓝、因势利导、稍安勿躁、人格魅力、父母必读等10个篇章。每个篇章三项内容：Headache Sentences（难句解疑，包括译文及注解）；Useful Words & Phrases（从正文中选取并作点评演示）；Structural Issues（主要对文中出现的最具实用性的句型作举一反三的解析）。

成功探秘 

Secrets of Straight-A Students

优等生的成功秘诀

Give your Child an Edge

让你的孩子如虎添翼

柳暗花明

Help Your Child Handle Bullies

帮助你的孩子对待逞凶者

How to Raise Polite Kids in a Rude World

如何让孩子出污泥而不染

爱的力量

How to Find True Love

如何找到真爱

This School Means Business

一所企业办的学校

The Kids of Kent Amos

Kent Amos 的孩子

心理会诊

Help Your Child Beat Peer Pressure

帮助你的孩子对付伙伴的压力

Raising Terrific Teens

调教可怕的少年

In fact, Walberg says, students with high I.Q.s sometimes don't do as well as classmates with lower I.Q.s. For them, learning comes too easily and they never find out how to *buckle down.

Hard work isn't the whole story, either. "It's not how long you sit there with the books open," said one of the many A students we interviewed. "It's what you do while you're sitting." Indeed,some of these students actually put in fewer hours of homework time than their lower-scoring classmates.

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