Question

【題目】Read the passage and answer the questions.

Do you think you are more intelligent than your parents and grandparents? According to James Flynn, a professor at a New Zealand university, you are! Over the course of the last century, people’s IQ test scores have gotten steadily higher --- on average, three points higher each decade. This improvement is known as the “Flynn effect”, and scientists want to know what is behind it. IQ tests are designed to measure general intelligence rather than knowledge. Flynn believes that intelligence partly comes from our parents and partly is the result of our environment, but the improvement in test scores has been happening too quickly to be explained by heredity (遺傳). So what has occurred in the 20th century to help people achieve higher scores?

Scientists have proposed several explanations for the Flynn effect. Some suggest that the improved test scores simply reflect an increased exposure to tests in general and the learning of test-taking techniques that help us perform better on any test. Others have pointed to better nutrition. Babies now are born larger, healthier, and with more brain development than in the past. Another suggested explanation is a change in educational styles, with teachers encouraging children to learn by discovering things for themselves rather than just memorizing information, which improves their problem-solving skills.

Flynn has limited the possible explanations after carefully examining test data and discovering that the improvement in scores has taken place in only certain parts of the IQ test. Test-takers are not doing better on the maths or vocabulary sections of the test; they are doing better on the sections requiring reasoning and problem solving. For example, one part of the test shows a set of shapes, and test-takers must find the patterns and connections between them.

According to Flynn, this visual intelligence improves as the amount of technology in our lives increases. Every time you play a computer game, you are exercising exactly the kind of thinking and problem solving that helps you do well on one kind of intelligence test. So are you really smarter than your parents? In one very specific way, you may be.

Questions

【1】Does Flynn think you are smarter than your parents and grandparents?

【2】What do IQ tests focus on, general intelligence or knowledge?

【3】How do educational styles help people do better in the test according to some scientists?

【4】Which sections did the test takers do better in the test on?

【5】Why does the writer mention computer games?

【6】Do you agree with Flynn?Why or why not?

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】Yes, he does

【2】General intelligence

【3】By increasing exposure to tests and learning test-taking techniques.

【4】The sections requiring reasoning and problem solving

【5】To prove that increasing the amount of technology in our lives can improve the visual intelligence.

【6】開放性作答

【解析】

本文是一篇說明文，介紹了何謂“弗林效應”，并且詳細解釋了其現(xiàn)象以及是如何發(fā)現(xiàn)該效應的。

【1】根據(jù)Do you think you are more intelligent than your parents and grandparents? According to James Flynn, a professor at a New Zealand university, you are，可知他認為我們比父輩和祖父輩聰明，故答Yes, he does。

【2】根據(jù)IQ tests are designed to measure general intelligence rather than knowledge，可知智商測試主要是測普遍智力，故答General intelligence。

【3】根據(jù)Some suggest that the improved test scores simply reflect an increased exposure to tests in general and the learning of test-taking techniques that help us perform better on any test，可知增加測試和學習測試技巧可以幫助我們考得更好，故答By increasing exposure to tests and learning test-taking techniques。

【4】根據(jù)they are doing better on the sections requiring reasoning and problem solving，可知測試者在推論和解決問題的部分做得更好，故答The sections requiring reasoning and problem solving。

【5】根據(jù)According to Flynn, this visual intelligence improves as the amount of technology in our lives increases，可知弗林認為我們生活中的科技越多，人們的視覺智能就越能得到提高，故答To prove that increasing the amount of technology in our lives can improve the visual intelligence。

【6】開放性作答，言之有理即可。參考答案：Yes, because people now invent many things that were not invented or even imagined by our ancestors.