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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 its 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 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 that 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】细节题。本题问作者对传统上一个人读写和计算的能力来衡量智力的观念的看法。问题的关键词是conventional notion of intelligence。文章第一段多处谈到该观点是prevalent myths，要清除，还有…prejudice和…discouraging results都说明它是wrong concept。选项[A]中widely held即为prevalent之意；[B]与作者观点相反；[C]和[D]文章没提到。故答案为[A]。
单选题 It is implied in the passage that holding a university degree______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】细节推理题。题目问在文章中拥有大学文凭暗指什么。尽管关键词hold a university degree在文章中没有直接提及，但它是第一段倒数第二句中的学历证书(certificate)的一种，即：“然而，那些拥有学历证书并能证明自己受过教育的人也出现在精神病医院”。可见答案应为[D]。[A]和[B]与主题无关，[C]言过其实。
单选题 The author thinks that an intelligent person knows______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】细节判断题。题目问的是作者认为聪明的人知道什么。关键词intelligent person在第二段第一句话作了解释，如果你快乐，每一分钟都过得值得，那么你就是聪明的人。然后在第三段第二句说聪明的人知道如何选择幸福而不是沮丧。[C]与文章完全对应，故为正确答案。选项[A]、[B]、[D]与题干不符。
单选题 In the last paragraph, the author tells us that______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】细节推理题。题目问最后一段作者告诉我们什么。最后一段告诉我们，金钱、生老病死、自然灾难、事故等是所有人都要面临的问题(Similarly，…)，但是有些人就不会陷入沮丧、不快乐等情绪中。[B]讲沮丧和不快乐是不可避免的，和文章相反，故可排除。而[A]讲困难只是每个人生活的一部分，言下之意是聪明的人知道如何辩证地看待困难，符合作者的意思。[B]显得片面，而且与作者的观点相反；[C]太绝对，不会是答案；[D]文章中没有提及。
单选题 According to the passage, what kind of people is rare?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】推理题。本题问根据本文，什么样的人是出类拔萃的。考查的是对全文结论句，即文章最后一句话的理解。从题干关键词“rare”可以定位到文章最后一句话，这句话的意思是那些能够懂得各种困难是人生难免的状况，不以是否遭遇问题来衡量幸福与否的人是最聪明，也是出类拔萃的。[B]与文章意思相符。[A]、[C]选项所表达的观点恰和作者的观点相反；[D]在文章中没有提到。