What is EQ? In the early 1990s, Dr．John Mayer, Ph．D．, and Dr．Peter Salovey, Ph．D．, introduced the term “emotional intelligence” in the Journal of Personality Assessment．They used this term to describe a person's ability to understand his or her own emotions and the emotions of others and to act properly based on this understanding．Then in 1995, psychologist Daniel Goleman popularized this term with his book Emotional Intelligence：Why It Can Matter More Than IQ．
EQ gives you a competitive advantage．Even at Bell Labs, where everyone is smart, studies find that the most respected and productive engineers are those with the special qualities of emotional intelligence quotient－it's not necessary for them to have the highest IQ．Having a high IQ may make you an excellent expert or a legal scholar, but a highly developed emotional intelligence quotient will make you a candidate(候选人)for a leader or a brilliant lawyer．EQ can make it more likely that your marriage will be successful．Lack of EQ shows why people with high IQ can be such bad pilots of their personal lives．
The study shows that these men with high IQ also lack these emotional abilities：suffering from being criticized and misunderstood, shy and uncomfortable, emotionally stimulated(激励)．Compared with those men with high IQ, these men(with high EQ)are calm and friendly, who are loyal to people and careers, have lots of sympathy with and care for others, with a rich but suitable emotional life－they're comfortable with themselves, others, and the human society they live in．
Is your intelligence the greatest predictor of what you'll achieve in life? We have believed that IQ is the best measure of human potential for so many years．In the past 10 years, however, researchers have found that isn't necessarily the case－that in fact, your EQ might be a greater predictor of success．
High IQ may help you the father of science fiction, but it won't make you a respected person．High EQ can help you more．
(1)
What can we learn from the second paragraph?
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A．
In daily life and work, EQ is more important than IQ．
B．
High IQ will have a bad effect on people's lives．
C．
It's not necessary for people to have a high IQ．
D．
You'd better develop your intelligence well in order to be a leader．
(2)
The underlined sentence “this isn't necessarily the case” in Paragraph 4 means here that ________．
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A．
your IQ is a greater predictor of success
B．
success is dependent on your IQ
C．
your EQ can predict your success better
D．
human potential is up to your IQ
(3)
From the text, it can be inferred that ________．
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A．
high IQ can help you work better and succeed more easily
B．
high EQ must make you succeed
C．
all the bosses have a higher EQ than their employees
D．
those with high IQ are hot valued
(4)
The text is written mainly to advise ________．
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A．
people should only pay attention to their EQ
B．
people should develop their EQ as well as their IQ
C．
those who want to act as leaders should develop their EQ
To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up．For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的)．So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion．Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans．
What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱)．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits．Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch．
Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet．In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”．
But in the end tomatoes carried the day．The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead．”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted．”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato．Some people fainted．But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory．
(1)
The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．
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A．
it made Christive evil
B．
it was the apple of Eden
C．
it came from a forbidden land
D．
it was religiously unacceptable
(2)
What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?
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A．
The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down
B．
There was little pregress in the study of the tomato
C．
The tomato was still refused in most western countries
D．
Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato
(3)
What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?
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A．
To manke imself a hero
B．
To remove people's fear of the tomaoto
C．
To speed up the popularityt of the tomato
D．
To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory
(4)
What is the main purpose of the passage?
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A．
To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato
B．
To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato
C．
To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato
D．
To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence
