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 rived 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 Nervous Break Down. Intelligent people do not have breakdown 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 breakdown. 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] 细节题。利用定位关键词可以定位到第一段“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”，即“把握住自己包括摒弃某些流行的神秘说法。在这些说法中最荒诞的是：依据解决复杂问题的能力、读、写和计算水平以及迅速解深奥方程式来衡量智商”，可知这些有关智商的说法很流行但却是很荒诞的，由此得出作者对这些观点持否定态度，因而选项A(是一个被广泛接受的但却是错误的观点)为正确答案。

单选题 It is implied in the paragraph 1 that holding a university degree ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 推断题。第一段提到“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 rived each day and each present moment of every day”，即“我们渐渐相信，获得较多学习优秀证书的人，擅长某一学科形式的人算是‘聪明’。然而精神病院里住满了持有各种荣誉证书的病人。智商的真正体现是每天、每天的每一时刻都过得有价值、快乐”。由此可知作者认为真正能体现聪明的是能否过一种有意义的和愉快的生活，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(拥有大学学位并不意味着非常聪明)与作者的这种观点相符，是正确答案。选项C(拥有大学学位会使人得精神病或身体虚弱)有一定的干扰性，虽然作者说神经病医院里满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神经得病或身体虚弱。

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

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 推断题。利用选项A的关键词可以定位到第一段“Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths”，可知选项A与文章内容相悖，文章说要摒弃某些很流行的说法，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(如何避免沮丧和让生活有意义)是正确答案；同时根据第2段第一句“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，如果你为所有值得的事物活每一时刻，你就是一个聪明的人)也可以推断出选项C与原文信息一致。

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

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。根据第四段可知“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”，即“在任何社会环境中与别人交往，每个人都有相同的困难。意见不合、冲突和妥协是作为人的一部分存在的”，因而选项A(困难只是生活的一部分)与之相符，是正确答案；选项B(沮丧和不幸福是生活中不可避免的)干扰性较大，原文说“But some people are able to make it, to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences”，即“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] 细节题。利用定位关键词可以定位到第四段最后一句“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”，即“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的人，是我们所知最聪明的一类人，也是很罕见的人”，所以该题的正确答案为B(那些知道生活中困难的存在但又懂得如何避免的人)。