Passage One
Are some people born clever, and others born stupid Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experiences Strangely enough, the answer to both 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 low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, but whether or not he 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 most closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from the population, i
A. never become a genius
B. still become a genius if he should be given special education
C. exceed his intelligence limits in rich surroundings
D. not reach his intelligence in his life
A new study found that inner-city kids living in neighborhoods with more green space gained about 18% less weight over a two-year period than kids living amid more concrete and fewer trees. Such (1) tell a powerful story. The obesity epidemic began in the 1980s, and many people (2) it to increased portion sizes and inactivity, but that can’t be everything. Fast foods and TVs have been (3) us for a long time. "Most experts agree that the changes were (4) to something in the environment," says social epidemiologist Thomas Glass of The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. That something could be a (5) of the green.
The new research, (6) in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, isn’t the first to associate greenery with better health, but it does get us closer (7) identifying what works and why. At its most straightforward, a green neighborhood (8) means more place
A. benefits
B. profits
C. revenues
D. awards
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