Intelligence and ability may play a role in influencing individual performance. However,
quite a few studies show that opportunity and situational factors have far more to do with
achievement. Many of the differences in academic or occupational achievement observed
among adolescents are due not to disparities in adolescents’ hereditary qualities, including
intelligence, abilities and personal temperament, but to those in the environments in which
these characteristics are expressed.
【題組】36. What view of the author’s can be predicted from this passage?
(A) Adolescents’ achievement may not be so much influenced by their intelligence as by the
environment they are exposed to.
(B) A closer observation of adolescents’ abilities and personal temperament is needed to
inform future teaching.
(C) Adolescents should be given more opportunities to observe differences in academic and
occupational environments.
(D) Disparities in one’s achievement are due in large part to one’s inherited characteristics.