What is intelce anyway? When I was in the army I21an intelce test that all soldiers took, and, against22of 100, scored 160．No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me.
All my life I've been registering scores like that,23I have the complacent(洋洋自得的) feeling that I'm highly intelt, and I expect other people to think so too. Actually, though, don't such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by people who24the intelce tests - people with intellectual bents(天分) similar to mine?
For instance, I once had an auto-repair man, who, on these intelce tests, could not 25have scored more than 80,by my estimate. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hurried to him—and he always fixed it.
Well，then，suppose my auto—repair man 26questions for some intelce tests．By doing every one of them I'd prove myself a 27．In a world where I have to work with my 28，I'd do poorly．
Consider my auto—repair man 29．He had a habit of telling 30．One time he said. “Doc, a deaf and dumb man 31some nails．Having entered a store，he put two fingers together on the counter and made 32movements with the other hand．The clerk brought him a hammer．He 33his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering．The clerk 34him some nails．He picked out the right size and left．Well，Doc，the35man who came in was blind．He wanted scissors． 36do you suppose he asked for them?' I lifted my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first two fingers．He burst out laughing and said，“Why, you fool，he used his 37and asked for them.” Then he said smugly, 'I've been 38that on all my customers today.' 'Did you catch many?' I asked. 'Quite a few,' he said, 'but I knew39I'd catch you.' 'Why is that?' I asked. 'Because you're so goded educated, Doc, I knew you couldn't be very40.' And I have an uneasy feeling that he had something there．
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