20.A. realize B.
remember C. recognize D. recover
Keys:
What is intelligence anyway? When I was in the army I 1 an intelligence test that all soldiers
took, and against 2 of 100, scored 160.
I had an auto-repair man once, who, on
these intelligence tests, could not
3 have scored more than 80. 4 , when anything went wrong with my
car I hurried to him – and he always 5 it.
Well, then, suppose my
auto-repair man 6 questions for some intelligence tests. By
every one of them I’d prove myself a
7 . In a world where I have to work
with my 8 , I’d do poorly.
Consider my auto-repair
man 9
. He had a habit of telling 10 . One time he said, “Doc, a
deaf-and-dumb man 11 some nails. Having entered a store,
he put two fingers together on the counter and made 12 movements with the other hand. The
clerk brought him a hammer.
He 13 his head and pointed to the two
fingers he was hammering. The clerk
14 him some nails. He picked out the
right size and left. Well, Doc, the 15 man who came in was blind. He
wanted scissors. 16
do you suppose he asked
for them?” I lifted my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first
two fingers. He burst out laughing and said, “Why, you fool, he used his 17 and asked for them. I’ve
been 18 that on all my customers today, but
I knew 19 I’d catch you.” “Why is that?” I
asked. “Because you are so goddamned educated, Doc. I knew you couldn’t be very
20 .”And I have an uneasy feeling he had
something there.