Week 4-【博师在线】2022-2023学年八年级下册初二英语课堂练习（外研版）大连专用

八年级 下• 18 Week 4 A Do you think you are smart? In fact, most smart people have some things in common. These include understanding how much they don􀆳t know, high self-control and even a funny personality. You might think these traits(特点) are developed separately(分离地) from inteligence (智慧). 1. Knowing how much you don􀆳t know Smart people are better able to admit(承认) when they don􀆳t know something. 2. In one experiment, for example, students were asked to estimate(预估) their scores after taking a test. The students with lower scores overestimated(高估) the number of questions they􀆳d gotten right. Meanwhile, those with higher scores underestimated(低 估) how many questions they􀆳d gotten right. Having high self-control 3. In 2009, a study published in the journal Psychological Science, participants(参 加 者) had to choose between two rewards (奖励): a smaler amount of money that they could get at once or a larger amount of money that they could get later. The results showed that people who chose to receive the larger amount of money at a later date scored higher on inteligence tests. These people had more self- control. 博师在线•英语 八年级 下• 19 Being realy funny 4. Scientists at the University of New Mexico may think so. One of their studies found that people who wrote funnier cartoon captions(解说词) scored higher on verbal(语言的) inteligence tests. Verbal inteligence is believed to be linked to overal inteligence. A.Scientists have found a link(关联) between self-control and inteligence. B.Do smart people have a better sense of