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Passage Four
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex problems; to read, write and compute at certain levels;and to resolve abstract equations quickly. This vision of intelligence asserts formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of selffulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to believe that someone who has more educational merit badges, who is very good at some form of school discipline
is"intelligent." Yet mental hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the properly lettered certificates. A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day.
If you are happy, if you live each moment for everything it's worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for yourself, or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness, then you are intelligent. You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon against the big N. B. D. --Nervous Break Down.
"Intelligent'people do not have N.B.D.'s because they are in charge of themselves. They know how to choose happiness over depression, because they know how to deal with the problems of their lives.
You can begin to think of yourselfas truly intelligent on the basis of how you choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances. The life struggles are pretty much the same for each of us. Every one who is involved with other humanbeings in any social context has similar difficulties. Disagreements, conflictsand compromises are a part of what it means to be human. Similarly, money, growing
old,sickness, deaths, natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to virtually all human beings. But some people are able to make it, to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse or have an N.
B.D. Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don' t measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.
26. According to the author, the conventional notion of intelligence measured in terms
of one' s ability to read, write and compute ________.
A) is a widely held but wrong concept
B) will help eliminate intellectual prejudice
C) is the root of all mental distress
D) will contribute to one's selffulfillment
27. It is implied in the passage that holding a university degree ________.
A) may result in one's inability to solve complex reallife problems
B) does not indicate one's ability to write properly worded documents
C) may make one mentally sick and physically weak
D) does not mean that one is highly intelligent
28. The author thinks that an intelligent person knows ________.
A) how to put up with some very prevalent myths
B) how to find the best way to achieve success in tire
C) how to avoid depression and make his life worthwhile
D) how to persuade others to compromise
29. In the last paragraph, the author tells us that ________.
A) difficulties are but part of everyone's life
B) depression and unhappiness are unavoidable in life
C) everybody should learn to avoid trying circumstances
D) good feelings can contribute to eventual academic excellence
30. According to the passage, what kind of people are rare?
A) Those who don't emphasize bookish excellence in their pursuit of happiness.
B) Those who are aware of difficulties in life but know how to avoid unhappiness.
C) Those who measure happiness by an absence of problems but seldom suffer from N.
B. D. ' s.
D) Those who are able to secure happiness though having to struggle against trying
circumstances.
PartIII Vocabulary (20 minute)
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part.For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) . Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
centre.
31. Starting with the ________ that there is life on the planet Mars, the seientst
went on to develop his argument.
A) premise B) pretext C) foundation D) presentation
32. After several nuclear disasters, a ________ has raged over the safety of nuclear
energy.
A) quarrel B) suspicion C) verdict D) controversy
33. Their diplomatic principles complely laid bare their ________ for world conquest.
A) admiration B) ambition C) administration D)orientation
34. The director gave me his ________ that he would double my pay if I did my job well.
A) warrant B) obligation C) assurance D) certainty
35. The Christmas tree was decorated with shining ________ such as colored lights and
glass balls.
A) ornaments B) luxuries C) exhibits D) complements
36. The two most important ________ in making a cake are flour and sugar .
A) elements B) components C) ingredients D) constituents
37. Cultural ________ indicates that human beings hand their languages down from one
generation to another.
A) translation B) transition C) transmission D) transaction
38. We must look beyond ________ and assumptions and try to discover what is missing.
A) justifications B) illusions C) manifestations D) specifications
39. No one imagined that the apparently ________ businessman was really a criminal.
A) respective B) respectable C) respectful D) realistic
40. If nothing is done to protect the environment, millions of spedes that are alive
today will have become ________ .
A) deteriorated B) degenerated C) suppressed D) extinct
41. The ________ of the scientific attitude is that the human mind can suceeed in
understanding the universe.
A) essence B) texture C) content D) threshold
42. The old lady has developed a ________ cough which cannot be cured completely in a
short time.
A) perpetual B) permanent C) chronic D) sustained
43. What the correspondent sent us is an ________ news report. We can depend on it
A) evident B) authentic C) ultimate D) immediate
44. Having had her as a professor and adviser, I can tell you that she is an
_______ force who pushes her students to excel far beyond their own expectations.
A) inspirational B) educational C) excessive D) instantaneous
45. Some researchers feel that certain people have nervous systems particularly ______
to hot, dry winds. They are what we call weathersensitive people.
A) subjective B) subordinate C) liable D) vulnerable
46. Hurricanes are killer winds, and their ________ power lies in the physical damage
they can do.
A) cumulative B) destructive C) turbulent D) prevalent
47. In some countries, students are expected to be quiet and ________ in the classroom.
A) skeptical B) faithful C) obedient D) subsidiary
48. In spite of the ______economic forecasts, manufacturing output has risen slightly.
A) gloomy B) miserable C) shadowy D) obscure
49. Body paint or face paint is used mostly by men in preliterate societies in order
to attract good health or to _______ disease.
A) set aside B) ward off C) shrug off D) give away
50. The international situation has been growing _____difficult for the last few years.
A) invariably B) presumably C) increasingly D) dominantly
51. The prisoner was ______ of his civil liberty for three years.
A) discharged B) derived C) deprived D) dispatched
52. Small farms and the lack of modern technology have ______ agricultural production.
A) blundered B) tangled C) bewildered D) hampered
53. The Japanese scientists have found that scents ______ efficiency and reduce stress
among office workers.
A) enhance B) amplilf C) foster D) magnify
54. All the students have to ______to the rules and regulations of the school.
A) confirm B) confront C) confine D) conform
55. He ______ his head, wondering how to solve the problem
A) scrapped B) screwed C) scraped D) scratched
56. As soon as the boy was able to earn his own living he ______ his parents' strict
rules.
A) defied B) refuted C) excluded D) vetoed
57. The helicopter a light plane and both pilots were killed.
A) coincided with B) stumbled on C) tumbled to D) collided with
58. To ______ is to save and protect, to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such good
condition that others may also share the enjoyment.
A) conserve B) conceive C) convert D) contrive
59. Put on dark glasses or the sun will ______ you and you won' t be able to see.
A) discern B) distort C) distract D) dazzle
60. In ______ times human beings did not travel for pleasure but to find a more
favourable climate.
A) prime B) primitive C) primary D) preliminary
