Aresomepeoplebornclever,andothersbornstupid?Orisi...

习题库
关注：1.95W次

问题详情：

Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes．To some extent our intelligence is given us at birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with intelligence．On the other hand, a child who lives in rich and varied surrounding．Thus the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not be reaches those limits will depend on his environment．This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways．

It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with．The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence．Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from the population, it is likely that their degree of intelligence will be completely different．If, on the other hand, we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other．Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth．

Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments．We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring．We should soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part．This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence．

1．If a child is born with low intelligence, he can ____．

A．never become a genius

B．still become a genius if he should be given an education

C．go beyond his intelligence limits in rich surroundings

D．not reach his intelligence in his life

2．In the second paragraph “if we take two unrelated people at random from the population．．．” means “if we ____．”

A．choose two persons with different intelligence

B．take out two different persons

C．choose two persons who are relative

D．pick any two persons

3．The example of the twins going to a university and to a factory separately show ____．

A．the role of environment on intelligence