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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. On the other hand, a child who lives in 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, 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 closer they 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
A. never become a genius
B. exceed his intelligence limits in rich surroundings
C. still become a genius if he should be given special education
D. not reach his intelligence in his life
| In a recent book entitled The Psychic Life of
Insects, Professor Bouvier says that we must be careful not to credit the little
winged fellows with intelligence when they behave in what seems like an
intelligent manner. They may be only reacting. I would like to confront the
professor with an instance of reasoning power on the part of an insect which
cannot be explained away in any other manner. During the summer of 1899, while I was at work on my doctoral thesis, we kept a female wasp at our cottage. It was more like a child of our own than a wasp, except that it looked more like a wasp than a child of our own. That was one of the wa A. saw that his cards had already been rearranged B. realized that the wasp had been trying to help C. found evidence of the wasp’s intelligence D. found his index cards still scattered about the room [单项选择]Passage Two
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