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The most common use of intelligence test scores is to predict degree of academic success.Such scores are used in some communities as bases for admitting able children to schools at ages younger than normal, and they are very generally used to determine admissions to schools beyond public secondary school.Another use common in elementary schools involves comparing such scores with performances in various subjects to identify children who are working below capacity.

The greatest problem in using intelligence tests for the purpose of prediction is that no dependable criterion of their accuracy exists.The ideal criteria would be objective and reliable achievement tests following instructions in each subject, but there are few such tests, especially at the college level.Studies have shown that correlations(相关性) between intelligence tests and achievement tests in various subjects through secondary school range roughly from 0.5 to 0.8. Such correlations are fairly high, but they do not suggest anywhere near complete agreement.

At the college level there are two major tests used as criteria of admission. By far the more important is the College Entrance Examination, constructed by the Educational Testing Service authorized by the College Entrance Examination Board.These tests arc returned to the Educational Testing Service for scoring, and the results are then made available to the various colleges authorized by the students to receive them. The second test of this type is the American College Test, which operates in essentially the same fashion.

Both tests constitute(组成) measures of certain skills, abilities, and knowledge that have been found to be related to success in college. Their correlations with academic success are limited for three outstanding reasons. First, measures of achievement in college are themselves perhaps no more reliable than those in elementary and secondary schools. Second, intellectual factors do not alone determine academic success, especially at the college level. Many students drop out of schools because they are inadequately motivated or because they dislike the instructional programme. Third, correlations are lowered because the use of such tests for denying admission to some students means that the range of scores for those admitted is restricted, and such restrictions tend to reduce correlations.

Common

1.__________ of intelligence test scores

.To tell in 2.__________ the degree of academic success

.To help admit children with outstanding 3.__________ to school at the age younger than ordinary

.To find out children with 4.__________ ability in primary school than aveage

5.__________ with intelligence

tests

.Ideal criteria for objective and reliable achievement tests in college courses are 6.__________ to find.

.Correlations between intelligence tests and achievement tests are fairly high but still limited.

Two major tests at the college level

.CEE

.ACF

.Both tests are scored by the Educational Testing Service.

.The7.__________ of the College Entrance Examination will be sent to the colleges that the students choose.

.The correlations with academic success are limited for three reasons as 8.__________.

a. Measures of college achievement are as 9.__________ as those in primary and middle schools.

b. Academic success is determined by many other factors 10.__________ from intellectual ones.

c. Admission restrictions tend to reduce correlations.

Once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons (猎鹰).They were the most beautiful birds he had ever seen.He gave the ____ birds to his head falconer to be _____.

Months passed, and one day the head falconer informed the king that _____ one of the falcons was flying high in the sky, the other bird had not ______ from its branch since the day it had arrived.

The king ordered healers from all the land to ______ the falcon, but no one could make the bird fly.He ________ the task to the members of his court, ____the next day, the king saw ______ the palace window that the bird had still not moved from its branch.

Having _______ everything else, the king thought to himself, “Maybe I need someone more ______ the countryside to understand the nature of this problem.” So he cried out to his court, “Go and get a _______.”

In the morning, the king was ______ to see the falcon flying high above the palace garden.He said to his court, “_______ me the doer of this miracle.”

The court quickly located the farmer, who came and stood before the king.The king asked him, “_____ did you make the falcon fly?”

With his head ______, the farmer said to the king, “It was very easy. I ______ cut the branch where the bird was sitting.”

We are all made to fly—to realize our ______ potential as human beings.But instead of doing that, we sit on our branches, hanging on to the things that are ______ to us.The possibilities are ______, but for most of us, they remain undiscovered.We ______ to the familiar, the comfortable, the boring.So for the most part, our lives are mediocre (平庸的) instead of exciting, thrilling and fulfilling.

1.A.curiousB.preciousC.expensiveD.clever

2.A.testedB.exhibitedC.appreciatedD.trained

3.A.asB.ifC.thoughD.since

4.A.eatenB.sungC.movedD.waken

5.A.tend toB.watch forC.drive awayD.pick up

6.A.reducedB.presentedC.removedD.brought

7.A.untilB.soC.butD.as

8.A.throughB.acrossC.beyondD.behind

9.A.learnedB.triedC.preparedD.understood

10.A.beneficial toB.fit for

C.friendly withD.familiar with

11.A.farmerB.gardenerC.falconerD.healer

12.A.embarrassedB.thrilled

C.anxiousD.relaxed

13.A.TellB.AwardC.CreateD.Bring

14.A.WhenB.WhyC.HowD.Where

15.A.stretchedB.stuckC.bowedD.turned

16.A.simplyB.narrowlyC.necessarilyD.nearly

17.A.unavoidableB.virtual

C.imaginaryD.unbelievable

18.A.properB.familiarC.unusualD.similar

19.A.endlessB.limitedC.changeableD.uncertain

20.A.applyB.referC.directD.stick

A busy public square in the Chinese city of Nanjing is home to an unusual experiment.

For almost two months, the country’s first “honesty bookshop” has occupied(占据) a sidewalk on HanZhong Road in the city’s Gulou District.

With no cashier or other staff, the store relies on trust for payment.

Making money isn’t the company’s main goal and they don’t punish those who take books without paying.

“If they can really finish the books, it doesn’t matter if they took the books for free,” Zhu Yu, the marketing director of the company says.

“In fact, we are really happy to witness so many people taking books from the honesty bookshop.”

After browsing the four wooden bookshelves, customers must drop their money in a locked box.

Prices are set at 30% of the usual cover price.

Zhu hopes that his sidewalk store, which sells, on average, 60 books a day, will make more people interested in reading.

Like elsewhere, e-books are affecting sales of traditional books, and traditional books and many independent booksellers are struggling.

Zhu got permission from the city government to use the sidewalk and says he’s determined to make it a long-term project.

He says the store is open every day, except when it rains, and it’s locked up each night.

In September last year, the company laid out 1,000 books and reading lamps on the ground and encouraged people “to go on a date” with a book.

“Independent bookshops represent the well-being of the city.” Zhu told CNN in 2013, “when a city is losing its bookshops, it’s actually losing something in its soul.”

If the success of the Honesty Bookstore is any guide, Nanjing’s soul is in pretty good shape.

1.How is the bookstore different from other bookstores?

A. There is no cashier in it.

B. There are no paper books in it.

C. None of the customers need to pay for the books.

D. Only honest customers can visit the shop.

2.What does Zhu Yu say about customers who take away books without paying?

A. They will be forbidden from visiting the bookstore again.

B. They will have to pay a lot of money next time they visit the shop.

C. They are not doing wrong if they finish reading the books.

D. They will not be allowed to take books away next time.

3.What is one of the purposes of opening the bookstore?

A. To encourage people to read.

B. To make customers honest.

C. To check whether customers are honest.

D. To help people learn about Nanjing.

4.What can we learn from the text?

A. The shop is only open on weekends.

B. The books in the shop are more expensive than shoes in other shops.

C. 30% of the normal cover price is charged for each book.

D. The shop is not locked at night.

The other day when I was passing a clothing store, I fell in love with a skirt. I knew it would suit me best at first sight. But when I looked at the price tag (标签), I knew I had to give it up.

The love for beautiful clothes has been planted in my heart the day when I was born to be a woman. Several years ago I read an article in a magazine. The article stated that when a woman is at her best time, she is usually poor or tasteless, so she can’t get the right clothes; when she can afford to buy the clothes she likes, she often finds that they do not suit her anymore.

On the way home, I was quite disturbed by such thoughts. It was just a pity, like many other pities. I thought to myself this way. But when I was about to enter the building where I was living, I saw the big mirror placed in the entrance. I saw a girl in it who was in cheap but cleanly washed sweater and jeans. She was rather young, healthy and energetic. For quite a while I was touched by what I had seen in the mirror.

Then I almost forgot the tale: A person without shoes cried until he saw a man without feet. Being young without good clothes is like the person without shoes. I should have felt grateful that I haven’t lost my feet.

1.How did the author feel when she decided not to buy the skirt?

A. Embarrassed. B. Wise.

C. Relieved. D. Regretful.

2.The underlined word “She” in Paragraph 3 refers to ________.

A. the author’s friend B. the author

C. the author’s roommate D. a stranger

3.Why was the author touched by what she saw in the mirror?

A. She didn’t feel at ease when looking into a mirror.

B. She was reminded of her devotion to beauty.

C. She came to realize what she really possessed.

D. She never thought over the other side of a person.

4.We can learn from the text that the author considered her love for beautiful clothes as ________.

A. natural B. funny C. silly D. simple

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