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】37. Which of the following is the claim of the passage?
(A) There are disparities in adolescents’ abilities.
(B) Studies show that adolescents’ achievements are highly relevant to their abilities.
(C) An adolescent’s abilities cannot be well established even if opportunities are provided.
(D) Situational factors play a critical role in determining one’s achievement.