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编号： 潍坊科技职业学院 2005－2006学年第一学期期末考试 《英语阅读一》试卷A（450人） （适用于国际语言系05级商务英语涉外旅游会展04英6专业） 考试时间90分钟，满分100分 题号 一 二 三 总分 得分 Part One（每小题2分，共40分 What is intelligence, anyway? What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the army, I received a kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that and for two hours they made a big fuss over me. All my life I’ve been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I’m highly intelligent, and I except other people to think so, too. Actually, though, don’t such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by the people who make up the intelligence tests—people with intellectual tends similar to mine? For instance, I was with an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles—and he always mended my car. Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I’d prove myself a moron. And I’d be a moron, too. In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly. My intelligence, then, is not absolute. Its worth is determined by the society I live in. Its numerical evaluation is determined by a small subsection of that society which has managed to force itself on the rest of us as a judge of such matters. Consider my auto-repair man, aga