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　　About the time that schools and others quite reasonably became interested in seeing to it that all children, whatever their background, were fairly treated.intelligence testing became unpopular.

　　Some thought it was unfair to minority children. Through the past few decades such testing has gone out offashion and many communities have indeed forbidden it.

　　However. paradoxically. just recently a group of black parents filed lawsuit(訴訟)in California claimingthat the state's ban on IQ testing discriminates against their children by denying them the opportunity totake the test (They believed correctly, that IQ tests are a valid method of evaluating children for special education classes.) The judge, therefore. reversed, at least partially. his original decision.

　　And so the argument goes on and on. Does it benefit or harm children from minority groups to have their intelligence tested? We have always been on the side of permitting. even facilitating, such testing. If a child of any color or group is doing poorly in school it seems to us very important to know whether it is because he or she is of low intelligence. or whether some other factor is the cause.

　　What school and family can do to improve poor performance is influenced by its cause. It is not discriminative to evaluate either a child's physical condition or his intellectual level.

　　Unfortunately, intellectual level seems to be a sensitive subject, and what the law allows us to do variesfrom time to time. The same fluctuation back and forth occurs in areas other than intelligence. Thirty years or so ago. for instance, white families were encouraged co adopt black children. It was considered discriminative not to do so.

　　And then the style changed and this cross-racial adopting became generally unpopular, and social agencies felt that black children should go to black families only. It is hard to say what are the best procedures.But surely good will on the part of all of us is needed.

　　As to intelligence. in our opinion, the more we know about any child's intellectual level, the better for the child in question.

　　1. Why did the intelligence test become unpopular in the past few decades?

　　A) Its validity was challenged by many communities.

　　B) It was considered discriminative against minority children.

　　C) It met with strong opposition from the majority of black parents.

　　D) It deprived the black children of their rights to a good education.

　　2. The recent legal action taken by some black parents in California aimed to

　　A) draw public attention to IQ testing

　　B) put an end to special education

　　C) remove the state's ban on intelligence tests

　　D) have their children enter white schools

　　3. The author believes that intelligence testing_____________.

　　A) may ease racial confrontation in the United States

　　B) can encourage black children to keep up with white children

　　C) may seriously aggravate racial discrimination in the United States

　　D) can help black parents make decisions about their children’s education

　　4. The author's opinion of child adoption seems to be that________________.

　　A) no rules whatsoever can be prescribed

　　B) white families should adopt black children

　　C) adoption should be based on IQ test results

　　D) cross-racial adoption is to be advocated

　　5. Child adoption is mentioned in the passage to show that_________________.

　　A) good will may sometimes complicate racial problems

　　B)social surroundings are vital to the healthy growth of children

　　C) intelligence testing also applies to non-academic areas

　　D) American opinion can shift when it comes to sensitive issues

　　答案：

　　1.過去的幾十年當(dāng)中，為什么智力測驗(yàn)不受歡迎?

　　A)很多社群質(zhì)疑智力測驗(yàn)的有效性。

　　B)智力測驗(yàn)被視作歧視少數(shù)兒童。

　　C)智力測驗(yàn)受到了來自大多數(shù)黑人父母的反對。

　　D)智力測驗(yàn)剝奪了黑人孩子受良好教育的權(quán)利。

　　[B]根據(jù)文章第2段“有些人認(rèn)為智力測驗(yàn)對少數(shù)民族兒童不公平。因此，在過去的幾十年里，智力測驗(yàn)已不再流行，在有些社區(qū)甚至被禁止了”，這里的it指代前面的intelligence testing。因此，B與文章所表達(dá)的意思一致。

　　2.最近一些加州的黑人父母采取的法律行動(dòng)是旨在__________________。

　　A)引起大眾對智力測驗(yàn)的關(guān)注

　　B)結(jié)束特殊教育

　　C)消除加州的智力測驗(yàn)禁令

　　D)讓自己的孩子進(jìn)入白人學(xué)校就讀

　　[C]根據(jù)文章第3段第2句“最近，一群黑人父母提出訴訟，聲稱該州禁止智商測驗(yàn)剝奪了他們的孩子接受這種測驗(yàn)的機(jī)會(huì)，是對孩子的歧視”，由此可判斷黑人父母要求取消對智力測試的禁令。故此，應(yīng)該選C。

　　3.作者認(rèn)為智力測驗(yàn)________________。

　　A)會(huì)緩和美國的種族對抗

　　B)能夠鼓勵(lì)黑人孩子趕上白人該子

　　C)會(huì)嚴(yán)重地激化美國的種族歧視

　　D)可以幫助黑人家長決定孩子的教育問題

　　[D]根據(jù)文章第4段末句和第5段首句“如果任何一種膚色的小孩在學(xué)校的成績不好，弄清楚是由于他的智商低.還是由于其他原因引起的對我們來說似乎很重要;學(xué)校和家庭只有弄清楚孩子成績不好的原因才能幫助孩子”，因此，應(yīng)選D。

　　4.作者對于收養(yǎng)兒童的意見似乎是____________________。

　　A)沒有什么法則可出臺(tái)

　　B)白人家庭應(yīng)該收養(yǎng)黑人孩子

　　C)收養(yǎng)應(yīng)該基于智力測驗(yàn)的結(jié)果之上

　　D)應(yīng)該倡導(dǎo)跨種族收養(yǎng)

　　[A]根據(jù)文章第7段末句“因此，很難說到底怎樣才是最好的。但肯定無疑的是，我們大家都需要有善意”，由此可推斷，人們并不能制定某種規(guī)則來限制它，故此，A與文章的意思相符。

　　5.文章中提到收養(yǎng)兒童是為了顯示_______________。

　　A)良好的意愿有的時(shí)候會(huì)將種族問題復(fù)雜化

　　B)社會(huì)環(huán)境對于兒童的健康成長至關(guān)重要

　　C)智力測驗(yàn)對于非學(xué)術(shù)領(lǐng)域也同樣適用

　　D)美國人對于敏感議題的意見會(huì)發(fā)生變化

　　[D]文章第6段前兩句，作者提出“智商水平似乎是個(gè)敏感的問題。法律允許我們不時(shí)改變觀點(diǎn)。在智商以外的其他領(lǐng)域也存在著這種來來回回不斷變化的情況”，兒童收養(yǎng)問題只是作者舉的一個(gè)例子，旨在說明在一些敏感問題上，人們的觀點(diǎn)可以不斷變化的情況。故選D。

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