阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案.

NMET 2002

　　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 no 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 work where I have to work with my8  , 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 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.

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NMET 2002

　　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 no 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 work where I have to work with my8  , 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 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.

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　　Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and mathematics. 1 go to school to learn a 2 so that they can make a 3 . School education is very important and 4 ,yet no one can learn everything from 5 . A teacher, no matter 6 he knows, can not teach his students 7 they want to know. The teacher's job is 8 his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So, much more is 9 outside school by the students themselves.

　　It is always 10 important to know how to study by oneself than to memorize some facts or a formula（公式）. 11 is quite easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula in 12 . But it is very difficult to use a formula 13 a maths problem. Great scientists, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo 14 everything from school. But they 15 successful. They invented 16 things for mankind. The reason for their success is 17 they knew how to study. They read books that 18 at school. They worked hard all their 19 , wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of experiments. 20 ,they knew how to use their brains.

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　　In 1980 a report was published about what the earth might be like 20 years from then. The report was the result of a three-year study.

　　According to the report, the 1 of the earth in the year 2000 is not a 2 one. The world will be more crowded because the 3 will continue to grow. The population 4 be as large as 6,300 million, almost 2,500 million more than that in 1975. 5 people would move into cities, especially cities in 6 countries. Cities like Cairo and Jakanta 7 would each have 15 million by then. Food production will increase, but not enough to feed all the people. Farmers will grow 90% more food than they did in 1975, but most of the increase would be in countries that 8 produce enough food for their people. 9 increase is grown in South Asia, Africa and European countries. Poor farming ways are 10 large areas of cropland, changing farms into 11 . More farmland is lost 12 cities become larger and houses are built. Air pollution will get worse as industrial countries 13 more coal and oil. Much of the world's 14 could disappear as more and more trees are cut down. Energy will continue to be a 15 problem. The experts hope their picture of the earth for the year 2000 may be 16 . Measures must be taken to change the situation that 17 today. By changing the situation, by settling the problems, the picture can be changed. There is 18 time for the nations of the world to work together on a plan of action. But they 19 that waiting too long to make decisions would greatly 20 the chances of success.

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　　An old man 1 without injury when a stolen car crashed into his flat just as he was getting ready to go to bed.

　　George Richards, 76, said yesterday that he felt 2 to be 3 after the car shunted（转避）his bed 4 the room and left it 5 a pile of bricks and debris（瓦砾）. The driver 6 when the car became wedged（楔形）in the flat.

　　Richards, 7 was getting ready for bed and watching television in his lounge at the time of the 8 , said, “If it had been 30 minutes 9 , I would have been in the bed. I was only a couple of feet away 10 the window and had been pushed to 11 the room by the impact（撞击）of the car. If I had been in it, I would have been 12 --there is no doubt 13 it. I just heard the crash and couldn't 14 it when I went into the bedroom and saw the 15 .”

　　Firemen attended the 16 and engineers were called out to 17 the safety of the 18 , but Mr. Richards said that he expected to 19 in his flat.

　　Police are appealing（呼吁）for help in tracing（追寻）the 20 .

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　Can you remember the day 1 you spoke your first word?

　　Try to imagine 2 the first few months of your life were like. I am

3  you just spent most of your time eating, sleeping and crying. __4__ you grew older, you were awake more of the time. It 5  your parents more time to play with you and talk to you. You tried your best to watch and listen. You began to know that people made certain sounds to 6  certain things.

　　Then you began to try making the sound you 7 . And little by little you were able to make the 8  sound for one thing. On that day you came to understand the 9  of language. A certain sound 10  a certain thing. One sound might be as good as 11 . But it is no good as a word 12 everybody agrees 13 its meaning. When a 14 of people use the same sounds for things, they can understand each other. Only then do they have a language.

　　After you found the secret of language, you 15 words. Some of the words meant 16 ,such as BOOKS, CHAIRS and SHOES. 17 words meant doing things, such as GO and SWIM. And other words described things, such as GOOD and DIRTY. Soon you learned to 18 words together to express an idea, such as “I want to go out and lay with my friends.” This is language. People can communicate 19 it. So we say languages are 20 to communicate.

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　　A rich American went into a shop in London. He wanted very much to

1 a nice-looking watch. He saw a watch and liked it so much __2__ he decided to buy it. But the owner of the shop 3 five hundred dollars for it. 4 the American was 5 whether to buy it or not, a young man suddenly came into the shop, took the 6 out of the owner's hand and ran out. It all 7 in a few seconds. When the owner ran out 8 the street, the young man was already 9 among the people. The American went 10 . At the next comer, he saw the young man 11 the stolen watch in his hand. “Do you want to buy a fine watch, sir?” he said in a low voice. “It's 12 a hundred dollars.”

　　“The young man doesn't know 13 I saw him stealing the watch just now. ”he 14 The American paid at once and went __15__ back to his room with the watch. His friend took a 16 at the watch and started 17 immediately. He said, “You are 18 This watch isn't worth 19 ten dollars. I'm 20 the shop owner and the young man planned all this together.”

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　　The Voice of America began during the World War Ⅱ, when Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international 1 . American officials believed they should 2 the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in 3 :“The 4 may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA 5 were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.

　　After the World Wax Ⅱ ended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA's

6 had to be changed, 7 the Soviet Union（苏联）became enemy of America. They wanted to 8 Soviet listeners. The VOA began broadcasting in Russian.

　　In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was 9 “Music USA.” Another new idea came along in 1959. VOA knew that many listeners did not know 10 English to completely understand its 11 English broadcast. So VOA 12 a simpler kind of English, 13 uses about 1,500 words and is spoken 14 . Of course, it is special English.

　　In the 15 of most VOA listeners, the most 16 program is the news report. News from around the world, 17 into the VOA news room in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in 18 cities and also from other 19 like BBC. VOA writers and editors use these materials to 20 news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.

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　　Martin Luther King, the son of a minister in the church, was born in 1929 in the USA. He won an entrance prize to a college when he was 15. After

1 , he became a minister 2 the church. Then, he 3 in Philadelphia until 1951.

　　 4 slavery was ended in 1865, the separation of blacks and whites 5 still continued. Laws passed to forbid whites to marry 6 blacks. There were 7 shops, restaurants, hospitals, buses, trains and schools for blacks. Blacks were not 8 to vote in the southern states 9 they passed a reading test.

　　King thought it was right and necessary 10 blacks to win equal civil rights 11 peaceful revolution, not by fighting and killing. He 12 the government to set blacks free and give them 13 rights. In 1964, he got the Nobel Prize for Peace and 14 the whole of the $ 54,600 prize to the 15 movement. In the same year a new Civil Rights Act was 16 to treat blacks equally. In 1965 a new Voting Rights Bill became 17 . From then on, all blacks had the rights 18 .

　　King was murdered on April 14th, 1968, because he made many 19 in the black liberation movement. 20 , his struggle had already changed the society. He was considered as an important leader in the black liberation movement.

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　　Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and mathematics. 1 go to school to learn a 2 so that they can make a 3 . School education is very important and 4 ,yet no one can learn everything from 5 . A teacher, no matter 6 he knows, can not teach his students 7 they want to know. The teacher's job is 8 his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So, much more is 9 outside school by the students themselves.

　　It is always 10 important to know how to study by oneself than to memorize some facts or a formula（公式）. 11 is quite easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula in 12 . But it is very difficult to use a formula 13 a maths problem. Great scientists, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo 14 everything from school. But they 15 successful. They invented 16 things for mankind. The reason for their success is 17 they knew how to study. They read books that 18 at school. They worked hard all their 19 , wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of experiments. 20 ,they knew how to use their brains.

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