What is intelligence anyway? When I was in the army I
21 an intelligence test that all soldiers took, and, against
22 of 100, scored 160．No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me.
All my life I've been registering scores like that,
23 I have the complacent(洋洋自得的) feeling that I'm highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think so too. Actually, though, don't such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by people who
24 the intelligence tests - people with intellectual bents(天分) similar to mine?
For instance, I once had an auto-repair man, who, on these intelligence tests, could not
25 have scored more than 80,by my estimate. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hurried to him—and he always fixed it.
Well，then，suppose my auto—repair man
26 questions for some intelligence tests．By doing every one of them I'd prove myself a
27 ．In a world where I have to work with my
28 ，I'd do poorly．
Consider my auto—repair man
29 ．He had a habit of telling
30 ．One time he said. “Doc, a deaf and dumb man
31 some nails．Having entered a store，he put two fingers together on the counter and made
32 movements with the other hand．The clerk brought him a hammer．He
33 his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering．The clerk
34 him some nails．He picked out the right size and left．Well，Doc，the
35 man who came in was blind．He wanted scissors．
36 do you suppose he asked for them?" I lifted my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first two fingers．He burst out laughing and said，“Why, you fool，he used his
37 and asked for them.” Then he said smugly, "I've been
38 that on all my customers today." "Did you catch many?" I asked. "Quite a few," he said, "but I knew
39 I'd catch you." "Why is that?" I asked. "Because you're so goddamned educated, Doc, I knew you couldn't be very
40 ." And I have an uneasy feeling that he had something there．
| 小题1: | | A．failed | B．wrote | C．received | D．chose |
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| 小题2: | | A．an average | B．a total | C．an amount | D．a number |
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| 小题3: | | A．then | B．but | C．so that | D．because |
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| 小题4: | | A．join in | B．make up | C．go over | D．look through |
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| 小题5: | | A．approximately | B．possibly | C．certainly | D．frequently |
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| 小题6: | | A．answered | B．practiced | C．designed | D．tried |
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| 小题7: | | A．teacher | B．doctor | C．winner | D．fool |
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| 小题8: | | A．brains | B．efforts | C．hands | D．abilities |
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| 小题9: | | A．again | B．as usual | C．too | D．as well |
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| 小题10: | | A．lies | B．jokes | C．news | D．tales |
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| 小题11: | | A．bought | B．tested | C．found | D．needed |
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| 小题12: | | A．cutting | B．hammering | C．scissoring | D．circling |
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| 小题13: | | A．nodded | B．raised | C．shook | D．turned |
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| 小题14: | | A．brought | B．packed | C．sent | D．sold |
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| 小题15: | | A．clever | B．other | C．right | D．next |
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| 小题16: | | A．What | B．How | C．Who | D．Which |
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| 小题17: | | A．imagination | B．hand | C．voice | D．information |
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| 小题18: | | A．trying | B．proving | C．practicing | D．examining |
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| 小题19: | | A．with wisdom | B．at once | C．in reality | D．for sure |
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| 小题20: | | A．clear | B．silly | C．slow | D．smart |
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