阅读理解 Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex problems; to read, write and compute at certain levels; and to resolve abstract equations quickly. This vision of intelligence asserts formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to believe that someone who has more educational merit badges, who is very good at some form of school discipline is "intelligent". Yet mental hospitals arc filled with patients who have all of the properly lettered certificates. A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day. If you are happy, if you live each moment for everything it''s worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for yourself, or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness, then you are intelligent. You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon against the big N. B. D. -- Nervous Break Down. "Intelligent" people do not have N. B. D. ''s because they are in charge of themselves. They know how to choose happiness over depression, because they know how to deal with the problems of their lives. You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances. The life struggles are pretty much the same for each of us. Everyone who is involved with other human beings in any social context has similar difficulties. Disagreements, conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be human. Similarly, money, growing old, sickness, deaths, natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to virtually all human beings. But some people are able to make it, to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse or have an N. B. D. Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don''t measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.

单选题 According to the author, the conventional notion of intelligence measured in terms of one''s ability to read, write and compute ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】辨认事实题。题目询问作者认为根据一个人的读写和计算能力来衡量智力的传统观念_______。根据文章第 1段“This vision of intelligence asserts formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging re suits. (这种智力观把正规教育和书面成绩当作自我价值的真正测量标准。这种标准鼓励了一种智力上的偏见，并已产生了不良的后果)”，因此，A项与文章的意思相符；其余三项显然与文章的观点相背。

单选题 It is implied in the passage that holding a university degree ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】推断题。题目询问文章暗示拥有大学学位_______。根据文章第1段“Yet mental hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the properly lettered certificates. (精神病院里拥有各种各样学历证书的病人并不少见)”，D项与文章所给的意思相符。A项在文章中并没有提及此类观点；B项与文章所陈述的观点相背；C项显然不是作者想要表达的观点。

单选题 The author thinks that an intelligent person knows ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】辨认事实题。题目询问作者认为聪明的人知道______。根据文章第2段“If you are happy，if you live each moment for everything it''s worth，then you are an intelligent person. (如果你快乐，如果你生活的每一刻都有意义，那么你就是一个聪明人)”和第3段“They know how to choose happiness over depression，because they know how to deal with the problems of their lives. (聪明人知道怎样选择幸福，而不是沮丧，因为他们知道怎样处理生活中的问题)”，C项与文章所陈述的意思相符。A项与文章内容不相符合；B项的信息在文章中并没有提及；D项的信息同样在文章中没有阐述。

单选题 In the last paragraph, the author tells us that ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】辨认事实题。题目询问在最后一段中，作者告诉了我们什么。文章最后一段提到“Everyone who is involved with other human beings in any social context has similar difficulties. Disagreements，conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be human. Similarly，money，growing old，sickness，deaths，natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to virtually all human beings. But some people are able to make it，to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences，while others collapse or have an N. B. D. (生活的磨难对每个人都是一样的。处于社会生活中的人都会遇到相似的困难、意见分歧、冲突和妥协都是生活的一部分。同样，金钱、衰老、疾病、死亡、自然灾害也是人所面临的问题。但有些人能乐观地面对困难，快乐地生活，避免生活中的沮丧和不幸，而有些人却被困难所击倒，情绪沮丧)”，因此，A项与作者的写作意图相符；B项与文中所给的意思不符；C项也与文章所陈述的意思不符，因为艰难的处境是难以避免的；D项的信息在文章中并没有提及。

单选题 According to the passage, what kind of people are rare?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】推断题。题目询问从文章中可看出哪一类人是少有的。根据文章最后一句话“Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don''t measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know；also，the most rare. (那些认识到困难是人生必然存在的情况，并且不以有无困难来衡量幸福的人才是我们所知的最聪明的一类人，也是很罕见的一类人)”，B项与文章的观点相符。A项和C项与文章所陈述的内容相背，D项文章并没有提及此类信息。