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．
| 小題1: | | A．failed | B．wrote | C．received | D．chose |
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| 小題2: | | A．a(chǎn)n average | B．a(chǎn) total | C．a(chǎn)n amount | D．a(chǎn) number |
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| 小題3: | | A．then | B．but | C．so that | D．because |
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| 小題4: | | A．join in | B．make up | C．go over | D．look through |
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| 小題5: | | A．a(chǎn)pproximately | B．possibly | C．certainly | D．frequently |
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| 小題6: | | A．a(chǎn)nswered | B．practiced | C．designed | D．tried |
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| 小題7: | | A．teacher | B．doctor | C．winner | D．fool |
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| 小題8: | | A．brains | B．efforts | C．hands | D．a(chǎn)bilities |
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| 小題9: | | A．a(chǎn)gain | B．a(chǎn)s usual | C．too | D．a(chǎn)s well |
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| 小題10: | | A．lies | B．jokes | C．news | D．tales |
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| 小題11: | | A．bought | B．tested | C．found | D．needed |
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| 小題12: | | A．cutting | B．hammering | C．scissoring | D．circling |
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| 小題13: | | A．nodded | B．raised | C．shook | D．turned |
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| 小題14: | | A．brought | B．packed | C．sent | D．sold |
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| 小題15: | | A．clever | B．other | C．right | D．next |
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| 小題16: | | A．What | B．How | C．Who | D．Which |
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| 小題17: | | A．imagination | B．hand | C．voice | D．information |
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| 小題18: | | A．trying | B．proving | C．practicing | D．examining |
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| 小題19: | | A．with wisdom | B．a(chǎn)t once | C．in reality | D．for sure |
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| 小題20: | | A．clear | B．silly | C．slow | D．smart |
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with difficult jobs of hiding presents from curious young children. If the gifts are large, this is sometimes a real 
. On Christmas Eve, young children find the 
almost unbearable（難以忍受的）. They are 
between the wish to go to bed early so that Father Christmas will bring their presents quickly and the wish to 
up late so that they will not 
the fun. The wish for gifts usually proves stronger. But though children go to bed early, they often lie 
for a long time, hoping to get a short look at Father Christmas.
managed to hide a few large presents in the storeroom. I feared the moment when my son, Jimmy, would 
me where that new bike had come from, but 
he did not see it.
when my wife and I went quietly into their room and began 
stockings. Then I pushed in the 
I bought for Jimmy and left it beside the Christmas tree. We knew we would not get 
sleep that night, for the children were 
to get up early. At about five o'clock the next morning, we were woken by loud sounds coming from the children's room － they were shouting excitedly! 
I had time to get out of bed, young Jimmy came 
into the room on his new bike, and his sister, Mary, 
close behind pushing her new baby carriage. Even the baby arrived, he moved 
the hands and knees into the room dragging a large balloon behind him. Suddenly it burst. That woke 
up completely. The day had really begun with a bang（巨響）.