Reading passage — intelligence testing (Questions 42–46)
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
About the time that schools and others quite reasonably became interested in seeing to it that all children, whatever their background, were fairly treated, intelligence testing became unpopular.
Some thought it was unfair to minority children. Through the past few decades such testing has gone out of fashion and many communities have indeed forbidden it.
However, paradoxically, just recently a group of black parents filed a lawsuit in California claiming that the state’s ban on IQ testing discriminates against their children by denying them the opportunity to take the test . They believed correctly, that IQ tests are a valid method of evaluating children for special education classes. The judge, therefore, reversed, at least partially, his original decision.
And so the argument goes on and on. Does it benefit or harm children from minority groups to have their intelligence tested? We have always been on the side of permitting, even facilitating, such testing. If a child of any color or group is doing poorly in school it seems to us very important to know whether it is because he or she is of low intelligence, or whether some other factor is the cause.
What school and family can do to improve poor performance is influenced by its cause. It is not discriminative to evaluate either a child’s physical condition or his intellectual level.
Unfortunately, intellectual level seems to be a sensitive subject, and what the law allows us to do varies from time to time. The same fluctuation back and forth occurs in areas other than intelligence. Thirty years or so ago, for instance, white families were encouraged to adopt black children. It was considered discriminative not to do so.
Then the style changed and this cross-racial adopting became generally unpopular, and social agencies felt that black children should go to black families only. It is hard to say what the best procedures are. But surely good will on the part of all of us is needed.
As to intelligence, in our opinion, the more we know about any child’s intellectual level, the better for the child in question.
About the time that schools and others quite reasonably became interested in seeing to it that all children, whatever their background, were fairly treated, intelligence testing became unpopular.
Some thought it was unfair to minority children. Through the past few decades such testing has gone out of fashion and many communities have indeed forbidden it.
However, paradoxically, just recently a group of black parents filed a lawsuit in California claiming that the state’s ban on IQ testing discriminates against their children by denying them the opportunity to take the test . They believed correctly, that IQ tests are a valid method of evaluating children for special education classes. The judge, therefore, reversed, at least partially, his original decision.
And so the argument goes on and on. Does it benefit or harm children from minority groups to have their intelligence tested? We have always been on the side of permitting, even facilitating, such testing. If a child of any color or group is doing poorly in school it seems to us very important to know whether it is because he or she is of low intelligence, or whether some other factor is the cause.
What school and family can do to improve poor performance is influenced by its cause. It is not discriminative to evaluate either a child’s physical condition or his intellectual level.
Unfortunately, intellectual level seems to be a sensitive subject, and what the law allows us to do varies from time to time. The same fluctuation back and forth occurs in areas other than intelligence. Thirty years or so ago, for instance, white families were encouraged to adopt black children. It was considered discriminative not to do so.
Then the style changed and this cross-racial adopting became generally unpopular, and social agencies felt that black children should go to black families only. It is hard to say what the best procedures are. But surely good will on the part of all of us is needed.
As to intelligence, in our opinion, the more we know about any child’s intellectual level, the better for the child in question.
Question 42. Why did the intelligence test become unpopular in the past few decades?
Question 42. Why did the intelligence test become unpopular in the past few decades?
Chọn một phương án bên dưới để kiểm tra đáp án ngay:
Đáp án chính thức: B
Hướng dẫn giải chi tiết
Chọn đáp án B – Kiến thức: Kĩ năng tìm và đọc thông tin
Giải thích: Tại sao bài kiểm tra trí thông minh trở nên không phổ biến trong vài thập kỷ qua?
A. Tính hợp lệ của nó đã bị thách thức bởi nhiều cộng đồng.
B. Nó được coi là phân biệt đối xử đối với trẻ em dân tộc thiểu số.
C. Nó vấp phải sự phản đối mạnh mẽ của đa số phụ huynh da đen.
D. Nó tước đi quyền được hưởng một nền giáo dục tốt của trẻ em da đen.
Thông tin:
About the time that schools and others quite reasonably became interested in seeing to it that all children, whatever their background, were fairly treated, intelligence testing became unpopular.
Some thought it was unfair to minority children. Through the past few decades such testing has gone out of fashion and many communities have indeed forbidden it.
Dịch:
Vào khoảng thời gian mà các trường học và những tổ chức khác bắt đầu quan tâm một cách hợp lý đến việc đảm bảo rằng tất cả trẻ em, bất kể xuất thân của chúng, đều được đối xử công bằng, thì việc kiểm tra trí thông minh trở nên không phổ biến.
Một số cho rằng điều đó là không công bằng với trẻ em dân tộc thiểu số. Trong vài thập kỷ qua, thử nghiệm như vậy đã lỗi thời và nhiều cộng đồng đã thực sự cấm nó.
Giải thích: Tại sao bài kiểm tra trí thông minh trở nên không phổ biến trong vài thập kỷ qua?
A. Tính hợp lệ của nó đã bị thách thức bởi nhiều cộng đồng.
B. Nó được coi là phân biệt đối xử đối với trẻ em dân tộc thiểu số.
C. Nó vấp phải sự phản đối mạnh mẽ của đa số phụ huynh da đen.
D. Nó tước đi quyền được hưởng một nền giáo dục tốt của trẻ em da đen.
Thông tin:
About the time that schools and others quite reasonably became interested in seeing to it that all children, whatever their background, were fairly treated, intelligence testing became unpopular.
Some thought it was unfair to minority children. Through the past few decades such testing has gone out of fashion and many communities have indeed forbidden it.
Dịch:
Vào khoảng thời gian mà các trường học và những tổ chức khác bắt đầu quan tâm một cách hợp lý đến việc đảm bảo rằng tất cả trẻ em, bất kể xuất thân của chúng, đều được đối xử công bằng, thì việc kiểm tra trí thông minh trở nên không phổ biến.
Một số cho rằng điều đó là không công bằng với trẻ em dân tộc thiểu số. Trong vài thập kỷ qua, thử nghiệm như vậy đã lỗi thời và nhiều cộng đồng đã thực sự cấm nó.