自我測試：

    1.  You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances. The life struggles are pretty much the same for each of us. Everyone who is involved with other human beings in any social context has similar difficulties.Disagreements, conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be human. Similarly, money, growing old, sickness, deaths natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to virtually all human beings. But some people are able to make it, to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse or have an N.B.D. Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.

Q:In the last paragraph,the author tells us that___.

 [A]difficulties are but part of everyone’s life
 [B]depression and unhappiness are unavoidable in life
 [C]everybody should learn to avoid trying circumstances
 [D]good feelings can contribute to eventual academic excellence

    2.   I recently visited a great little college in New York where the campus has doubled its minority population in the last six years. I talked with an African American who has been a professor there for a long time, and she remembers that when she first joined the community, there were fewer than a handful of minorities on campus. Now, all of us feel the university is better because of the diversity.

Q:It can be inferred form the passage that____.

 [A]meritocracy can never be realized without diversity
 [B]American political circles will not accept diversity
 [C]it is unlikely that diversity will occur in the U．S．media
 [D]minorities can only enter the fields where no debate is heard about diversity

    3.   These findings do not imply that urbanism makes little or no difference.If neighbors are strangers to one another, they are less likely to sweep the sidewalk of an elderly couple living next door or keep an eye out for young trouble makers.Moreover, as Wirth suggested, there may be a link between a community's population size and its social heterogeneity(多樣性).For instance, sociologists have found much evidence that the size of a community is associated with bad behavior including gambling, drugs, etc.Large�瞔ity urbanites are also more likely than their small�瞭own counterparts to have a cosmopolitan （見多識廣者的) outlook, to display less responsibility to traditional kinship roles, to vote for leftist political candidates, and to be tolerant of nontraditional religious groups, unpopular political groups, and so�瞔alled undesirables. Everything considered, heterogeneity and unusual behavior seem to be outcomes of large population size.

Q:It can be inferred from the Passage that the bigger a community is_____.

 [A]the better its quality of life
 [B]the more similar its interests
 [C]the more tolerant and open minded it is
 [D]the likelier it is to display psychological symptoms of stress