完形填空。
What is intelligence (智力) 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 be always
5 it.
Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man
6 questions for some intelligence tests. Be 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
(聋哑)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 poined 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 seissors(剪刀).
16 do you suppose he asked for them?" I
lifted my right hand and made seissoring 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 goldamned educated, Doc, I knew you couldn't
be very
20 ." And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.
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