第1页共12页2008年攻读浙江财经学院硕士学位研究生入学考试试题科目代码：681科目名称：综合英语答案请写答题纸上PartIREADINGCOMPREHENSION(40MIN,40points)Inthissectiontherearefivereadingpassagesfollowedbyatotalof20multiple-choicequestions.Readthepassagesandfinishthemultiplechoices.TextAForthepastseveralyears，theSundaynewspapersupplementParadehasfeaturedacolumncalled“AskMarilyn.”PeopleareinvitedtoqueryMarilynvosSavant，whoatage10hadtestedatamentallevelofsomeoneabout23yearsold；thatgaveheranIQof228---thehighestscoreeverrecorded.IQtestsaskyoutocompleteverbalandvisualanalogies，toenvisionpaperafterithasbeenfoldedandcut，andtodeducenumericalsequences，amongothersimilartasks.SoitisabitconfusingwhenvosSavantfieldssuchqueriesfromtheaverageJoe（whoseIQis100）as，what'sthedifferencebetweenloveandfondness?Orwhatisthenatureofluckandcoincidence？It'snotobvioushowthecapacitytovisualizeobjectsandtofigureoutnumericalpatternssuitsonetoanswerquestionsthathaveeludedsomeofthebestpoetsandphilosophers.Clearly，intelligenceencompassesmorethanascoreonatest.Justwhatdoesitmeanstobesmart？Howmuchofintelligencecanbespecified，andhowmuchcanwelearnaboutitfromneurology，genetics，computerscienceandotherfields？ThedefiningtermofintelligenceinhumansstillseemstobetheIQscore，eventhoughIQtestsarenotgivenasoftenastheyusedtobe.Thetestcomesprimarilyintwoforms:theStanford-BinetIntelligenceScaleandtheWechslerIntelligenceScales（bothcomeinadultandchildren'sversion）.Generallycostingseveralhundreddollars，theyareusuallygivenonlybypsychologists，althoughvariationsofthempopulatebookstoresandtheWorldWideWeb.SuperhighscoreslikevosSavant’sarenolongerpossible，becausescoringisnowbasedonastatisticalpopulationdistributionamongagepecks，ratherthansimplydividingthementalarebythechronologicalageandmultiplyingby100.Otherstandardizedtests，suchastheScholasticAssessmentTest（SAT）andtheGraduateRecordExam（GRE），capturethemainaspectsofIQtests.Suchstandardizedtestsmaynotassessalltheimportantelementsnecessarytosucceedinsch...
