Lesson 17 Learning to Live 學會生活
The fact that we are not sure what 'intelligence' is, nor what is passed on, does not prevent us from finding it a very useful working concept, and placing a certain amount of reliance on tests which 'measure' it.
In an intelligence test we take a sample of an individual's ability to solve puzzles and problems of various kinds, and if we have taken a representative sample it will allow us to predict successfully the level of performance he will reach in a wide variety of occupations.
This became of particular importance when, as a result of the 1944 Education Act, secondary schooling for all became law, and grammar schools, with the exception of a small number of independent foundation schools, became available to the whole population. Since the number of grammar schools in the countrycould accommodate at most approximately 25 per cent of the total child population of eleven-plus, some kind of selection had to be made. Narrowly academic
examinations and tests were felt, quite rightly, to be heavily weighted in favour of children who had had the advantage of highly-academic primary schools and academically biased Homes. Intelligence tests were devised to counteract this narrow specialization, by introducing problems which were not based on specifically scholastically-acquired knowledge. The intelligence test is an attempt to assess the general ability of any child to think, reason, judge, analyse and syntiesize by presenting him with situations, both verbal and practical, which arewithin his range of competence and understanding.
New words and expressions 生詞短語
intelligence 智力 intelligent cute intellectual a.智力的 n.知識分子
pass on 衡量
(1)He passes on(=pass away=die)委婉語
(2)衡量 judge:to pass on 如:to pass on one's intelligence
(3)pass for 被認為 不能用被動,只能用主動
(4)pass 過了 pass grade
reliance 信賴,依靠
(1)rely=depend He relies on his parents.(parasite:寄生蟲)(drag:負擔)
(2)reliant reliable 值得信賴的 self-reliant 自力更生(=self-dependent)
working 起作用的
pill:藥丸 dose:劑 Dose is working. efficient:指人效率很高,做事麻利 effective 有效果的
The pill does.
a wide variety 各種各樣
a wide variety of goods . various variant：變化的 variantion 變化 very colored/formed
mult- multifunctional multinational multilateral talks bilateral：雙邊會談
as a result of 由于…結果
As a result of his good performance, he got pay rise. Pay cut 減薪
consequence in result 后面一定不能出現(xiàn) of
He performed well; in result he got a pay rise.in consequence
act 法案
pass bill motion pay bills act：第 1 幕 ，第 1 場 Today we got an act of got.
He always put on an act.擺譜
foundation 基金 Peking Normal University 北京師范大學 missionary
The fact that we are not sure what 'intelligence' is, nor what is passed on, does not prevent us from finding it a very useful working concept, and placing a certain amount of reliance on tests which 'measure' it.
In an intelligence test we take a sample of an individual's ability to solve puzzles and problems of various kinds, and if we have taken a representative sample it will allow us to predict successfully the level of performance he will reach in a wide variety of occupations.
This became of particular importance when, as a result of the 1944 Education Act, secondary schooling for all became law, and grammar schools, with the exception of a small number of independent foundation schools, became available to the whole population. Since the number of grammar schools in the countrycould accommodate at most approximately 25 per cent of the total child population of eleven-plus, some kind of selection had to be made. Narrowly academic
examinations and tests were felt, quite rightly, to be heavily weighted in favour of children who had had the advantage of highly-academic primary schools and academically biased Homes. Intelligence tests were devised to counteract this narrow specialization, by introducing problems which were not based on specifically scholastically-acquired knowledge. The intelligence test is an attempt to assess the general ability of any child to think, reason, judge, analyse and syntiesize by presenting him with situations, both verbal and practical, which arewithin his range of competence and understanding.
New words and expressions 生詞短語
intelligence 智力 intelligent cute intellectual a.智力的 n.知識分子
pass on 衡量
(1)He passes on(=pass away=die)委婉語
(2)衡量 judge:to pass on 如:to pass on one's intelligence
(3)pass for 被認為 不能用被動,只能用主動
(4)pass 過了 pass grade
reliance 信賴,依靠
(1)rely=depend He relies on his parents.(parasite:寄生蟲)(drag:負擔)
(2)reliant reliable 值得信賴的 self-reliant 自力更生(=self-dependent)
working 起作用的
pill:藥丸 dose:劑 Dose is working. efficient:指人效率很高,做事麻利 effective 有效果的
The pill does.
a wide variety 各種各樣
a wide variety of goods . various variant：變化的 variantion 變化 very colored/formed
mult- multifunctional multinational multilateral talks bilateral：雙邊會談
as a result of 由于…結果
As a result of his good performance, he got pay rise. Pay cut 減薪
consequence in result 后面一定不能出現(xiàn) of
He performed well; in result he got a pay rise.in consequence
act 法案
pass bill motion pay bills act：第 1 幕 ，第 1 場 Today we got an act of got.
He always put on an act.擺譜
foundation 基金 Peking Normal University 北京師范大學 missionary