做雅思阅读记雅思词汇：Classify（分类）题型_雅思英语词汇

做雅思阅读记雅思词汇：Classify（分类）题型

　　Sample exercise

　　The Nature of Things

　　There is something ethereal about human intelligence, something hard-to-pin-down. Its hard even to define. Is intelligence the ability to reason? Does it have to do with memory? Is it aptitude with language? With mathematics? All of the above? Plenty of folks would go so far as to say that you just cant measure intelligence. Take the man credited with creating modern intelligence testing, French psychologist Alfred Binet, who wrote: Intellectual qualities are not superposable and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured. This business is complex and complicated, warned Binet, not a thing, like the hundred yard dash, to have an objective outcome.

　　According to others, however, our picture of intelligence is perfectly lucid. Many scientists believe that we long ago deciphered intelligence testing, thanks to a pair of early-century scientists, Karl Pearson and Charles Spearman, whose work created a means of quantification.

　　Modern intelligence testing is coming up on its one-hundredth birthday, but unlike many of the landmark scientific ideas of a century ago, the idea of testing intelligence, though it has certainly enjoyed moments of prosperity during the twentieth century, has failed to gain a consensus of believers in the sciences. In fact, those scientists who most focus their attention on intelligence are more fractured now than ever about our ability to measure itand our methods of doing so. Where we are, finally, is really where weve been from the outset: confronting the dubious nature of testing, its misuse and sometimes sordid history, and its uncertain future.