【夏の自習英文読解演習 ５】

There are two types of people in the world. Although they have equal




degrees of health and wealth and the comforts of life, one becomes happy,




while the other becomes miserable. This arises from the different ways in




which they consider things and events, and the resulting effects upon their mind.

【夏の自習英文読解演習 10】

Complicated ideas give the mind more work than simple ideas and, because





of the limitations of the mental digestive system, require slower reading.





Specific details that the reader needs to remember but which do not fit into a





pattern also require slow reading.

【演習】

　　When we talk about intelligence, we do not mean the ability to get a good score on a certain kind of test, or even the ability to do well in school；these are at best only indicators of something larger, deeper, and far more important. By intelligence we mean a style of life, a way of behaving in various situations and particularly in new, strange, and perplexing situations. The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do.