单选题 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 are 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 yourselves 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】解析:本题是细节题。这是一篇新老观点对应性文章。老观点也就是平常大家普遍接受的观点:聪明指的是受到正规教育,成绩优秀,并以此作为自我完善的手段。新观点强调心理健康,否定老观点。
单选题 It is implied in the passage that holding a university degree ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:本题是分析判断题。通读全文我们知道,作者认为真正能体现聪明的是能否过一种有意义的、愉快的生活,每天、每时都是这样。而获得大学学位的人未必能做到。所以选项D与作者的这种观点相符,是正确答案。选项C有一定的干扰性,虽然作者说神经病医院里大多是持有各种证书的病人,但这并不是说持有大学学位可能使一个人得神经病或身体虚弱。
单选题 The author thinks that an intelligent person knows ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:本题是综合分析判断题。选项A与文章内容相悖,文章说要摒弃某些很流行的说法(putting rest some very prevalent myths),而不是要忍耐这些说法。选项B和选项D的内容在文章中均未提到,故只有选项C是正确答案。另外,也可以根据第2段第1句来推断:“If you are happy,if you live each moment for everything it's worth,then you are an intelligent person.”(如果你感到愉快,如果你每时每刻为所有值得的事物活着,你就是一个聪明的人。)
单选题 In the last paragraph, the author tells us that ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:本题是要点归纳题。根据第4段第2、3、4句的内容:Everyone who is involved with other human in any social context has similar difficulties.Disagreements,conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be human.(在任何社会环境中与别人交往,每个人都有困难。意见不合、冲突和妥协是作为人的一部分存在的。)选项A与之相符,是正确答案。选项B干扰性较大,说沮丧与不愉快无法避免,这与原文不符。文章中说:“But some people are able to make it,to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences.”(但有些人能克服,尽管有这些事情发生,他们能避免陷入沮丧和不愉快中不能自拔。)这意味着生活中的沮丧和不愉快是可以避免的。
单选题 According to the passage, what kind of people are rare?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:本题是综合分析判断题。根据第4段最后一句:“Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don’t measure happiness by an absence Of problems are the most intelligent kind of human we know,also the most rare.”(那些认识到困难是人生必然存在的事物,不以有没有困难来衡量愉快,是我们所知道的最聪明的一类人,也是较少见的一类人。)
单选题 How to understand the word "intelligence" in the first paragraph?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:本题是细节题。本文讲述了一个非常有意义的知识,教授我们如何调整好自己的心态,以应付各种挑战,始终保持健康快乐的心态。本文中的“intelligence”并不是指一般的智力,也不是指情报或情报人员,而是指能使自己在困难和挑战面前始终保持良好心态的能力。
单选题 What is the meaning of "depression" in the third paragraph ?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:本题是词义题。“depression”一词在这里的含义是“沮丧、失意的精神状态”。因此,B、C和D都不合题意,虽然他们都可以解释“depression”一词。