Never argue with one's own understanding.
The whisper of intelligence is always there, whatever you do.
If you create a time lag (隔绝层) between the whisper of intelligence and understanding in you and your action, then you are preventing the brain from growing into a new size. When you argue with intelligence, when you postpone acting according to understanding then there is confusion, the brain gets confused.
The voice of understanding, the voice of intelligence has insecurity about it. How do you know that it is the right thing?
So we tend to ignore it. Instead we accept authority. We obey.
But the brain cannot be orderly, petent, accurate and precise if you do not listen to it, if you have no respect. We are so busy with the outside world and its force that the world that is inside us does not mand that respect and reverence (敬重), that care and concern from us.
So one has to be a disciple (信徒) of one's own understanding, and look upon that understanding as the master.
Sometimes one may mit a mistake, it might be the whim (念头) of the ego and we might mistake the whim, the wish of the ego for the voice of silence and intelligence, but that we have to discover. Unless you mit mistakes, how do you learn to discriminate between the false and the true? In learning there is bound to be a little insecurity, a possibility of mitting mistakes. Why should one be terribly afraid of mitting mistakes?
So instead of accepting the authority of habits and conditionings, while one is moving one watches, and when there is a suggestion, do not neglect, ignore, or insult the whisper from within and from one's own intelligence.
【小题1】What will happen if you refuse to follow your own understanding according to the above passage?A．Your brain will bee smaller.B．You will never get help from authority.C．You will hardly know the world.D．Your own intelligence will stop growing.【小题2】What is the function of mitting mistakes from the view of the author?A．Mistakes can make one practical.B．Mistakes can make one know the facts.C．Mistakes can allow one more time to develop.D．Mistakes can improve one’s judgment.【小题3】 The whole passage is developed by .A．facts and ideasB．reasoning and explainingC．scientific experiments D．arguing and debating【小题4】The best title of the passage might be .A．Never argue with your own understandingB．Never believe any authority while arguingC．Never neglect whispers from around youD．Never stop training yourself.D
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(答案→)D
解析：本文论证了如果了你拒绝了你的理解那么你就会阻止了你的大脑的增长，但是你如果听任大脑的意识也有可能引起自己犯下错误，可是如果犯下了错误，你及时地改正又给你的大脑的发展起了促进作用。
【小题1】细节理解题。根据If you create a time lag (隔绝层) between the whisper of intelligence and understanding in you and your action, then you are preventing the brain from growing into a new size. 故选D。
【小题2】细节理解题。根据Unless you mit mistakes, how do you learn to discriminate between the false and the true? 故选D。
【小题3】推理判断题。根据整篇文章的内容来看主要根据推理论证和解释，故选B。
【小题4】标题归纳题。根据文章一开始就提出Never argue with one's own understanding，故选A。