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 mini mum 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. Every one 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 roost 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】根据第一段前两句"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."以及本段中"Yet mental hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the properly lettered certificates. ", 就可推理
单选题
It is implied in the passage that holding a university degree
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】综观全文,可以看出作者认为只要人能过一种有意义的、愉快的生活,就是聪明。
单选题
The author thinks that an intelligent person knows______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】根据第一段第一句中的"putting to rest some very prevalent myths "可知[A]错误。文章末涉及到选项[B]和[D]的内容。根据第二段第一句"If you are happy, if you live each moment for everything it's worth, then you are an in intelligent person. ",可知[C]是正确答案。
单选题
According to the passage, what kind of people are rare?
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】根据最后一段最后一句"Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don' t measure happiness by an absence of problems are tile most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare."可知[B]为正确答案。