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I had an auto-repair man once, who, on the intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I al
I had an auto-repair man once, who, on the intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I al
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I had an auto-repair man once, who, on the intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles-and he always fixed my car.
Well, then, suppose my auto-repairman devised questions for an intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I’d prove myself a moron. And I’d be a moron, too. In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly. My intelligence, then, is not absolute. Its worth is determined by the society I live in. Its numerical evaluation is determined by a small subsection of that society which has managed to foist itself on the rest of us as an arbiter of such matters.
Consider my auto-repairman, again. He had a habit of telling me jokes whenever he saw me. One time he raised his head from under the automobile hood to say: "Doc, a deaf-and-dumb guy went into a hardware store to ask for some nails. He put two fingers together on the counter and made hammering motions with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he wanted, and left. Well, doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?"
I lifted my right hand and made scissoring motions with my first two fingers. Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed heartily and said, "Why, you dumb fool, he used his voice and asked for them. " Then he said, smugly, "I’ve been trying that on all my customers today. " "Did you catch many?" I asked. "Quite a few. " He said "but I knew for sure I’d catch you. " "Why is that?" I asked. "Because you’re so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn’t be very smart. "
And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.
When the auto-repairman tried the tricky question on the author, ____
选项
A、he was certain that the author would be caught
B、he had no idea what the result would be
C、he knew that the author would give the correct answer
D、he realized that the author had an uneasy feeling
答案
A
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