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2007 年 Text 2 原文：For the past several years, the Sunday newspaper supplement Parade has featured a column called “Ask Marilyn. ” People are invited to query Marilyn vos Savant, who at age 10 had tested at a mental level of someone about 23 years old; that gave her an IQ of 228—the highest score ever recorded. IQ tests ask you to complete verbal and visual analogies, to envision paper after it has been folded and cut, and to deduce numerical sequences, among other similar tasks. So it is a bit confusing when vos Savant fields such queries from the average Joe (whose IQ is 100) as, What ’s the difference between love and fondness? Or what is the nature of luck and coincidence? It ’s not obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers. 翻译：在过去几年中，《星期日报》增刊上出现了一个名为“玛丽琳问题”的特 色专栏。人们被邀请向玛丽琳·冯·莎凡提出各种问题。此人 10 岁时参加了相 当于普通人23 岁左右水平的智力测试，测试的智商为228 (智商的最高记录)。 智商测试要求你完成的任务常常是：词汇和图形类比、想象纸折叠和剪切后的形 状、推导数字序列，等等。因此，当莎凡回答(智商为100 的)普通人提出的诸如 “爱与喜欢有何区别”或“运气和巧合的本质是什么”这类问题时，她感到有些 困惑。想象物体形状和推算数列的能力，不一定能使人具备足够的能力，来回答 那些连最优秀的诗人和哲学家都回答不了的问题。 原文：Clearly, intelligence encompasses more than a score on a test. Just what does it mean to be smart? How much of intelligence can be specified, and how much can we learn about it from neurology, genetics, computer science and other fields? 翻译：显然，智力的高低并不能仅仅通过测试的分数体现出来。那么什么叫“聪 明”呢？有多少智力可以被明确定义出来？关于智力，从神经学、遗传学、计算 机科学和其它领域中，我们又能了解什么呢？ 原文：The defining term of intelligence in humans still seems to be the IQ score, even though IQ tests are not given as often as they used to be. The test comes primarily in two forms: the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler Intelligence Scales (both come in adult and children ’s version). Generally costing several hundred dollars, they are usually given only by psychologists,