If you are like most people,your intelligence varies from season to season．You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of the year．A noted scientist,Ellsworth Huntington(1876-1947),concluded from other men's work and his own among peoples in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities.
He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than is summer heat．This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year．It does mean,however,that the mental abilities of large numbers of people tend to be lowest in the summer.
Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking．One reason may be that in the spring man's mental abilities are affected by the same factors that bring about great changes in all nature.
Fall is the next-best season,then winter．As for summer,it seems to be a good time to take a long vacation from thinking!
Ellsworth Huntington decided that climate and temperature have__.
A、a great effect on everyone's intelligence
B、same effect on most persons'intelligence
C、some effect on a few persons'intelligence
D、no effect on most persons'intelligence
【正确答案】：B
【题目解析】：Ellsworth Huntington根据其他人的研究以及他自己在不同气候地区的人们中进行的研究得出结论，气候和温度对我们的智力能力有着明确的影响。
从文章中我们可以提取到以下关键信息：
- “气候和温度对我们的精神能力有明确的影响。” 这说明气候和温度确实对人的智力能力产生了影响，因此可以排除选项D（对大多数人的智力没有影响）。
- “这并不意味着所有人在夏天都比其他时间更不聪明。” 这表明不是每个人在夏天都会变得不那么聪明，因此可以排除选项A（对每个人的智力有很大影响）。
- 文章中提到“大量人群的精神能力在夏天往往最低”，这表明气候和温度的影响是普遍存在的，而非仅对少数人产生影响，因此可以排除选项C（对少数人的智力有一些影响）。
- “He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than is summer heat.” 和 “Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking.” 等句子进一步证实了气候和温度对大多数人智力能力的普遍影响。
综合以上分析，可以得出结论：气候和温度对大多数人的智力能力确实有影响，而且这种影响是普遍存在的。因此，正确答案是B：气候和温度对大多数人的智力有相同的影响。
If you are like most people,your intelligence varies from season
- 2024-11-09 06:34:59
- 英语（专升本）