An intelligence tester among the Kentucky “poor whites” presented the following problem to a boy being tested: “If you went to the store and bought six cents’ worth of sweets and gave the shop assistant 10 cents, what change would you receiver?” The boy replied, “I never had 10 cents, and if I had I wouldn't spend it on sweets, and anyhow sweets are what you mother makes.” The intelligence tester tried again, presenting the problem in the following way: “If you had taken 10 cows to pasture for your father and six of them ran away, how many would you have left to drive home?” The boy replied, “We don't have 10 cows, but if we did and I lost six, I wouldn't dare go home.”
(1)
They boy's answers to the test questions show us ________.
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A.
he is good at solving word problems
B.
his experience is quite different from the tester's
C.
he has no maths ability
D.
his intelligence is far below the average boy's
(2)
Which of the following is the best conclusion for the passage?
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A.
The boy is very silly.
B.
The living background influenced thy boy.
C.
Thy boy didn't know the answers to the questions.
D.
Thy boy didn't understand the questions.
(3)
What does the underlined word “pasture” probably mean?