单选题 Some personal characteristics play a vital role in the development of one's intelligence. But people fail to realize the importance of cultivating these factors in young people.
The so-called "non-intelligence factor" include {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}feelings, will, motivation, interests and habits. After a 30-year follow-up study of 8,000 males, American psychologists {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}that the main cause of disparities in intelligence is not intelligence {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}, but non-intelligence factors including the desire to learn, will-power and self-confidence.
{{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}people all know that one should have definite objectives, a strong will and good learning habits, quite a number of teachers and parents don't pay much attention to {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}these factors.
Some parents are greatly worried {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}their children fail to do well in their studies. They blame either genetic factors, malnutrition, or laziness, but they never take {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}consideration these non-intelligence factors. At the same time, some teachers don't inquire into these, such as reason {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}students do poorly. They simply give them more course and exercises, or {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}} rebuke or ridicule them. After all, these students lose self-confidence. Some of them just feel defeated and {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}themselves up as hopeless. Others may go astray because they are sick of learning. {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}investigation of more than 1,000 middle students in Shanghai showed that 46.5 percent of them were {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}of learning because of examination, 36.4 percent lacked persistence, initiative and conscientiousness and 10.3 percent were sick of learning.
It is clear {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}the lack of cultivation of non-intelligence factors has been a main {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}to intelligence development in teenagers. It even causes an imbalance between physiological and {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}development among a few students.
If we don't start now to {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}the cultivation of non-intelligence factors, it will not only obstruct the development of the {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}of teenagers, but also affect the quality of a whole generation. Some experts have put forward {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}about how to cultivate student's non-intelligence factors.
First, parents and teachers should {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}understand teenage psychology. On this basic, they can help them to pursue the objectives of learning, {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}their interests and toughening their willpower.