C) Germany is responsible for the horrible crimes it committed in World War II

D) it is wrong to equate their sufferings with those of other countries

Passage Two

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

    Given the lack of fit between gifted students and their schools, it is not surprising that such students often have little good to say about their school experiences. In one study of 400 adults who had achieved distinction in all areas of life, researchers found that three fifths of these individuals either did badly in school or were unhappy in school. Few MacArthunr Prize fellows, winners of the MacArthur Award for creative accomplishment, had good things to say about their precollegiate schooling if they had not been placed in advanced programs. Anecdotal(名人轶事的) reports support this. Pablo Picasso, Charles Darwin, MARK twain ,Oliver Goldsmith, and William Butler Yests all disliked school .so did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow ,an boy.” Often these children realize that they know more than their teachers, and their teachers oft feel that these children are arrogant, inattentive, or unmotivated.

Some of these gifted people may have done poorly in school because their gifts were not scholastic. Maybe we can account for Picasso in this way/But most fared poorly in school not because they lacked ability but because they found school unchanging and consequently lost interest. Yeats described the lack of fit 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 nonconformists. Nonconformity and stubbornness (and

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