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段1:①Americans today don’t place a very high value on intellect.
段2:①“Schools have always been in a society where practical is more important than intellectual,” says education writer Diane Ravitch. ②“Schools could be a counterbalance.” ③...concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits.
段3:④Continuing along this path, says writer Earl Shorris, “We will become a second-rate country. ⑤We will have a less civil society.”
段4:①“Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege,” writes historian and professor Richard Hofstadter... ③Practicality, common sense, and native intelligence have been considered more noble qualities than anything you could learn from a book.
段7:①School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted. ②Hofstadter says our country’s educational system is in the grips of people who“ joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise.”
60.What does the author think of intellect?
[A] It is second to intelligence.
[B] It evolves from common sense.
[C] It is to be pursued.
[D] It underlies power.
答案:C
问:如下哪个选项表达的观点不符合作者对intellect的看法?
A : schools should be a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits
B : schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children
C : intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of the mind
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