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. 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：此题定位到第一段第三、四句“This vision of intelligence…encourages…intellectual prejudice that…with it some discouraging results”，据此可以排除B、D两个选项；文中“Yet mental hospitals are filled withpatients who have all of the properly lettered certificates”，只是提到精神病院中也有很多患者拥有各种学问，因此选项C的结论太绝对，与文意有偏差，故A为答案。

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

单选题 The author thinks that an intelligent person knows______.

单选题 In the last paragraph, the author tells us that______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：根据第三段第四、五句的内容“Everyone who is involved…Disagreements，…are a part of…to behuman”(在任何社会环境巾与别人交往，每个人都有相似的困难。意见不合，冲突和妥协是作为人生活的一部分存在的)，选项A是正确答案。选项B，与原文不符，原文说“But some people are able tomake it，to avoid…”(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，排除B。选项C、D文中没有提及。

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

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：根据题目中的“rare”，定位到文章最后一句话“Those who recognize…and don’t measure happiness by…are the most intelligent…also，the most rare”，句意是“那些认识到问题是人生中必然存在的事物，并且不将问题的存在与否作为衡量快乐标准的人，是我们所认为的最具智慧也最罕见的人。”据此排除选项C；选项A、D文中没有提及；选项B符合文意。