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EQ
EQ is innate. Infants as young as three months show empathy
Nowhere is the discussion of emotional intelligence more pressing than in American schools, where both the stakes and the opportunities seem greatest. Instead of constant crisis intervention, or declarations of war on drug abuse or teen pregnancy or violence, it is time, Goleman argues, for preventive medicine. “Five years ago, teachers didn’t want to think about this,” says Principal Roberta Kirshbaum of Public School 75 in New York City. “But when kids are getting killed in high school, we have to deal with it.” Five years ago, Kirshbaum’s school adopted an emotional literacy program, designed to help children learn to manage anger, frustration, loneliness. Since then, fights at lunchtime have decreased from two or three a day to almost none.
Educators can point to all sorts of 1 to support this new direction. Students who are 2 or angry literally cannot learn. Children who have trouble being 3 by their classmates are 2 to 8 times 4 popular students to drop out. An inability to distinguish 5 feelings or handle frustration has been linked to eating 6 in girls.
Many school administrators in the U. S. are completely 7 the weight they have been giving to traditional 8 and standardized tests. Peter Relic, president of the National 9 of Independent Schools, would like to junk the SAT 10 . “Yes, it may cost a heck of a lot more money to 11 someone’s EQ rather than using a machine-scored test to 12 IQ,” he says. “But if we don’t, then we’re 13 that a teat score is more important to us than who a 14 is as a human being. That means an immense loss in terms of human 15 because we’ve defined success too narrowly.”
This warm embrace by educators has 16 some scientists in a bind. On one hand, says Yale psychologist Salovey, “I love the 17 that we want to teach people a richer understanding of their 18 life, to help them achieve their goals.” But, he 19 , “What I would oppose is training conformity to 20 expectations.” The danger is that any campaign to hone emotional 21 in children will end up teaching that there is a “right” emotional 22 for any given situation— laugh at parades, cry at 23 , sit still in church. “You can teach self-control,” 24 Dr.Alvin Poussaint, professor of psychiatry at Harvard 25 School. “You can teach that it’s better to talk out your 26 and not use violence. But is it good emotional intelligence not to 27 authority?”
Some psychologists go further and challenge the 28 that emotional skills can or should be taught in any kind of 29 , classroom way. Goleman’s premise that children can be 30 to analyze their feelings strikes Johns Hopkins’ McHugh as 31 to reinvent the encounter group. “I consider that an abominable 32 ,” he says, “an idea we have seen with adults. That 33 , and now he wants to try it with children? Good grief!” He 34 the description in Goleman’s book of an experimental 35 at the Nueva Learning Center in San Francisco. In one 36 , two primary-school boys start to argue over the 37 of an exercise, and the teacher breaks in to ask them to talk about 38 they’re feeling. “I appreciate the way you’re being assertive in talking 39 Tucker,” she says to one student. “You’re not 40 .” This strikes McHugh as pure folly. “The author is presuming that someone has the key to the right emotions to be taught to children. We don’t even know the right emotions to be taught to adults. Do you really think a child of eight or nine really understands the difference between aggressiveness and assertiveness?”
-Reported by Sharon E. Epperson and Lawrence Mondi/New York, James L. Graff/ Chicago and Lisa H. Towle/Raleigh
1.
A.happenings
B.figure
C.data
D.phenomenon
正确答案：C
2.
A.depressed
B.energetic
C.avid
D.troublesome
正确答案：A
3.
A.welcomed
B.accepted
C.popular
D.outcast
正确答案：B
4.
A.as nicely as
B.as brightly
C.as diligently
D.as likely as
正确答案：D
5.
A.distressing
B.hostile
C.depressing
D.aggressive
正确答案：A
6.
A.disorders
B.habits
C.troubles
D.barriers
正确答案：A
7.
A.reevaluating
B.rejudging
C.rethinking
D.remeasuring
正确答案：C
8.
A.classes
B.lessons
C.textbooks
D.education
正确答案：B
9.
A.Committee
B.Conference
C.Education
D.Association
正确答案：D
10.
A.partially
B.inclusively
C.seclusively
D.completely
正确答案：D
11.
A.test
B.judge
C.assess
D.weigh
正确答案：C
12.
A.evaluate
B.measure
C.test
D.weigh
正确答案：B
