上外版大学英语写作精选第二册(9)
UNIT 9
TEXT
Aimov explain why there i much more in intelligence than jut being able to core high on intelligence tet.
What I Intelligence， Anyway？
Iaac Aimor
What i intelligence， anyway？ When I wa in the army I received a kind of aptitude tet that all oldier took and， againt a normal of 100， cored 160. No one at the bae had ever een a figure like that and for two hour they made a nig fu over me. （It didn't mean anything. The next day I wa till a buck private with KP a my highet duty.）
All my life I've been regitering core like that， o that I have the complacent feeling that I'm highly intelligent， and I expect other people to think o， too. Actually， though， don't uch core imply mean that I am very good at anwering the type of academic quetion that are conidered worthy of anwer by the people who make up the intelligence tet - people with intellectual bent imilar to mine？
For intance， I had an auto-repair man once， who， on thee intelligence tet， could not poibly have cored more than 80， by my etimate. I alway took it for granted that I wa far more intelligent than he wa. Yet， when anything went wrong with my car I hatened to him with it， watched him anxiouly a he explored it vital， and litened to hi pronouncement a though they were divine oracle - and he alway fixed my car.WWw.hAOZUowEn.com
Well， then， uppoe my auto-repair man devied quetion for an intelligence tet. Or uppoe a carpenter did， or a farmer， or， indeed， almot anyone but an academician. By every one of thoe tet， I'd prove myelf a moron. And I'd be a moron， too. In a world where I could not ue my academic training and my verbal talent but had to do omething intricate or hard， working with my hand， I would do poorly. My intelligence， then， i not abolute. It worth i determined by the ociety I live in. It numerical evaluation i determined by a mall ubection of that ociety which ha managed to foit itelf on the ret of u a an arbiter of uch matter.
Conider my auto-repair man， again. He had a habit of telling me joke whenever he aw me. One time he raied hi head from under the automobile hood to ay： "Doc， a deaf-and-dumb guy went into a hardware tore to ak for ome nail. He put two finger together on the counter and made hammering motion with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He hook hi head and pointed to the two finger he wa hammering. The clerk brought him nail. He picked out the ize he wanted， and left. Well， doc， the next guy who came in wa a blind man. He wanted cior. How do you uppoe he aked for them？"
I lifted my right hand and made cioring motion with my firt two finger. Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed heartily and aid， "Why， you dumb fool， he ued hi voice and aked for them." Then he aid， mugly， "I've been trying that on all my cutomer today." "Did you catch many？" I aked. "Quite a few，" he aid， "but I knew for ure I'd catch you." "Why i that？" I aked. "Becaue you're o goddamned educated， doc， I know you couldn't be very mart."
And I have an uneay feeling he had omething there.
PHRAESE & EXPRESSIONS
make a fu of / over
为……大惊小怪
worthy of
deerving 值得
make up
prepare ready for ue 编制；配制
by one' etimate
据某人估计
take th. for granted
regard it a true or a certain to happen 认为某事当然
go wrong
top working a true or a certain to happen 出毛病
pick out
elect 挑选
try……on
在……身上试验
for ure
for certain； certainly 确切地；肯定