What Is a Koto? (I)

Task 1: What Is a Koto? (I)

1. Choose the best answer (a, b, or c) to complete each of the following statements.
(1) According to the tape, an intelligence test is designed to ____________.

a. determine one's ability to learn and his ability to change behavior on the basis of experience b. determine one's ability to work with his hands c. determine one's potential to become a sportsman or a language learner
(2) The question "What is intelligence" ____________. a. is quite easy to answer b. doesn't require much thinking c. is fairly difficult to answer
(3) If a person is good at football, we ___________. a. can say he is good at all sports b. can't say he is good at other forms of sports as well c. can say he is very intelligent
(4) A psychologist has designed a test based on ____________. a. 2 variables b. 3 variables c. 3 facts
(5) This new test aims at finding _____________. a. correlation among those variables b. cause-and-effect relationship among the variables c. finding language and mathematical genius from those tested

2. True or False Questions.
(1)
Intelligent people usually learn quickly, know answers to a lot of questions and can solve difficult problems.
(2)
Intelligent people are equally good in everything.
(3)
People's abilities are closely related to one another.

3. Complete the following passage with what you hear on the tape.
    A correlation is
of finding out if these abilities
. If two abilities are correlated, it means that if you are
, you are probably
— or, if you are
, you will probably be
. When two abilities are not correlated, it means that
— they do not
. It means that being good at one
being good at another.