Question

What is intelligence(智力) anyway? When I was in the army I ___1___ an intelligence test that all soldiers took, and, against ___2___ of 100, scored 160.

I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not ___3___ have scored more than 80. ___4___, when anything went wrong with my car I hurried to him and he always ___5___ it.

Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man ___6___ questions for some intelligence tests. By every one of them I’d prove myself a ___7___. In a world where I have to work with my ___8___ I’d do poorly.

Consider my auto-repair man ___9___. He had a habit of telling ___10___. One time he said,

“Doc, a deaf-and-dumb (聾啞) man ___11___ some nails. Having entered a store, he put two fingers together on the counter and made ___12___ movements with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He ___13___ his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk ___14___ him some nails. He picked out the right size and left. Well, Doc, the ___15___ man who came in was blind. He wanted scissors (剪刀). ___16___ do you suppose he asked for them?” I lifted my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first two fingers. He burst out laughing and said, “Why, you fool, he used his ___17___ and asked for them. I’ve been ___18___ that on all my customers today, but I knew ___19___ I’d catch you.” ”Why is that?” I asked. “Because you are so goddamned educated, Doc. I knew you couldn’t be very ___20___.”

And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.

1. A. failed     B. wrote  C. received     D. chose

2. A. an average     B. a total C. an exam     D. a number

3. A. always   B. possibly     C. certainly     D. frequently

4. A. Then      B. Thus   C. Therefore   D. Yet

5. A. fixed      B. checked      C. drove  D. changed

6. A. answered       B. practiced    C. designed     D. tried

7. A. teacher   B. doctor C. winner       D. fool

8. A. brains    B. effort  C. hands  D. attention

9. A. again     B. as usual      C. too     D. as well

10. A. lies      B. jokes   C. news   D. tales

11. A. bought  B. tested  C. found  D. needed

12. A. cutting B. hammering C. waving       D. circling

13. A. nodded B. raised  C. shook  D. turned

14. A. brought       B. packed       C. sent    D. sold

15. A. clever   B. other   C. right   D. next

16. A. What    B. How   C. Who   D. Which

17. A. imagination B. hand   C. voice  D. information

18. A. trying   B. proving      C. practicing   D. examining

19. A. for sure       B. at once       C. in fact D. right now

20. A. clear    B. silly    C. slow   D. smart

Answer 1

1---20      CABDA   CDCAB   DBCAD   BCAAD       

解析:

本文主要講述了一位曾經(jīng)當(dāng)過兵的醫(yī)生，在部隊(duì)進(jìn)行的智商測(cè)試得分很高，但后來卻被一名普通的汽車修理工所開的一個(gè)小玩笑“�！绷艘淮�。

1. C。表示“接受測(cè)試”，要用動(dòng)詞 receive。

2. A。an average of 100 意為“平均分為100分”。其前的 against 表示對(duì)比。全句意為：平均成績(jī)?yōu)?00分，而我得到了160分。

3. B。這只是作者的主觀看法，故意填 possibly 較合適。

4. D。yet 表轉(zhuǎn)折，意為“然而”。

5. A。比較四個(gè)選項(xiàng)的意思同時(shí)結(jié)合一名汽車修理工的職責(zé)，可知只有 fixed(修理)最恰當(dāng)。

6. C。此句意為：假設(shè)由這位汽車修理工來設(shè)計(jì)一些智力測(cè)試題。

7. D。By every one of them 中的介詞 by 說明手段或方式，them 指代前面的 questions，全句意為：用汽車修理工所設(shè)計(jì)的每一個(gè)問題，都會(huì)證明“我”是一個(gè) fool。

8. C。從上下文可以看出作者是一名智商很高的醫(yī)生，是腦力勞動(dòng)者。比較I’d do poorly，可知作者假設(shè)用自己的雙手工作，會(huì)做得很差。

9. A。由于前面兩段已提到這位汽車修理工的一些情況，這里再次以他為例，故用 again。

10. B。根據(jù)下文的“聾啞人買釘子”和“盲人買剪刀”這兩個(gè)笑話可知，此處選 B 為合適。

11. D。這位聾啞人之所來到商店，是因?yàn)樗�“需要�?needed)一些釘子。注意不要選 bought，因?yàn)椤百I了一些釘子”是到商店來的結(jié)果，不是原因。

12. B。根據(jù)常識(shí)可知：這個(gè)聾啞人要想售貨員明白他想買釘子的意圖，只有做 hammering movement 較合適。

13. C。售貨員根據(jù)這個(gè)聾啞人的 hammering movement 認(rèn)為他想要錘子，故拿給他 hammer——這不是聾啞人想的東西，所以他搖了搖頭(shook his head)。

14. A。經(jīng)過聾啞人的進(jìn)一步“解釋”，售貨員終于明白了他的意思，于是給他拿來了(brought)釘子。

15. D。前面來一個(gè)聾啞人，接著來一個(gè)瞎子。用 the next 表示先后順序。

16. B。how 表示方式，即指這個(gè)盲人用什么方式來說明自己的意圖。

17. C。盲人雖不能看，但會(huì)說話，所以他們買東西時(shí)是用自己的話語(yǔ)表達(dá)自己意思，即填 voice。

18. A。try 意為“測(cè)試”。trying sth on sb 意為“用某事測(cè)試某人”，在英國(guó)口語(yǔ)中也可理解為“用某事戲弄某人”。

19. A。根據(jù)上下文的語(yǔ)氣可知答案。for sure 是習(xí)語(yǔ)，意為“肯定地”、“有把握地”。

20. D。比較四個(gè)選項(xiàng)，同時(shí)結(jié)合上下文的語(yǔ)境，只有 D 較合適。