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Text 1
Why Are You So Smart?
About the author:
Karen E. Wright, Ph.D. Associate Member, Department of Educational
Psychology and Special Education, and Associate Professor,
College of Nursing.
Teaching areas: Counseling; family dynamics; grief, loss and
bereavement; health and wellness.
Research interests: Loss, grief & bereavement; grief &
bereavement counseling; family coping; health psychology;
child & adolescent development; quality of life; chronic
& terminal illness; counselor education; women's issues.
Language notes:
1.
whether you wind up in jail.
Wind up: finish by (doing sth or becoming sth).
e.g. The criminal wound up in jail.
2.
Most recently, the controversy incited by the 1994 book
The Bell Curve has revived the nature-nurture debate:
Nature-nurture: nature versus
cultivation; inheritance versus environment.
3.
Once a heredity pattern for a trait is established, researchers
can home in on the genes responsible.
Home in on: aim exactly towards a target; be guided to a target
automatically.
e.g. The enemy plane homed in on the arms factory and destroyed
it with one bomb.
4.
Plomin would need a lot more people and a thousand times as
many DNA markers.
As many: the same number of.
e.g. He made six mistakes in as many paragraphs.
5.
Such large-scale studies seemed impractical until Plomin's
colleague Michael Owen suggested scrapping the laborious genetic
profiling of individual subjects.
Suggest and propose in the next sentence have
a gerund as their object.
e.g. He suggested our returning home as soon as possible.
Scrap here means "abandon".
Text 2
The Different Ways of Being Smart
About the article:
People are different in intelligence: not only in IQ degrees
but also in the ways of being intelligent. In this article,
the author differentiates the types of intelligence. What
does she mean by "book smarts", or " art smarts", or "body
smarts", and so on? It is her way of labeling the various
forms of intelligence and their use. Read the article and
find out what type of people you are. Remember the author
has points out that there is not a typecast person in the
world. A person may have the elements of different types of
intelligence in him, with one type as the dominant element.
Language notes:
1.
He or she is likely to be well-organized, to go about solving
problems in a logical, step-by-step fashion, and to have a
highly developed language ability.
Go about: be busy at; work on.
e.g. You are not going about it in the right way.
2.
Artistic people tend to take in knowledge more often by seeing,
hearing, and feeling than by conscientious reading and memorizing.
Take in: grasp with the mind; understand.
e.g. He didn't take in what he read because his mind was on
something else.
3.
Or they may be people whose hands are naturally well coordinated
for performing intricate tasks.
Coordinate: to bring into a common action, movement, or condition;
harmonize.
e.g. Your muscles coordinate as you walk.
4.
he or she will retain information by saying it out loud, acting
out the facts, or counting them off with finger taps.
Count off: count (things or people )esp. to see if the number
is the same as expected.
e.g. At the beginning of each class, I count off the students.
5.
When taking exams, street-smart people are likely to get better
grades than their knowledge merits because they can "psych
out" the test,
Psych out: understand by intuition.
e.g. Jack psyched out her intentions.
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