Text 2 For the past several years, the Sunday newspaper supplement Parade has featured a

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Forthepastseveralyears，theSundaynewspapersupplementParadehasfeaturedacolumncalled“AskMarilyn.”PeopleareinvitedtoqueryMarilynvosSavant，whoatage10hadtestedatamentallevelofsomeoneabout23yearsold；thatgaveheranIQof228-thehighestscoreeverrecorded.IQtestsaskyoutocompleteverbalandvisualanalogies，toenvisionpaperafterithasbeenfoldedandcut，andtodeducenumericalsequences，amongothersimilartasks.SoitisabitconfusingwhenvosSavantfieldssuchqueriesfromtheaverageJoe（whoseIQis100）as，What'sthedifferencebetweenloveandfondness？Orwhatisthenatureofluckandcoincidence？It'snotobvioushowthecapacitytovisualizeobjectsandtofigureoutnumericalpatternssuitsonetoanswerquestionsthathaveeludedsomeofthebestpoetsandphilosophers.

Clearly，intelligenceencompassesmorethanascoreonatest.Justwhatd oesitmeanstobesmart？Howmuchofintelligencecanbespecified，andhowmuchcanwelearnaboutitfromneurology，genetics，computerscienceandotherfields？

ThedefiningtermofintelligenceinhumansstillseemstobetheIQscore，eventhoughIQtestsarenotgivenasoftenastheyusedtobe.Thetestcomesprimarilyintwoforms：theStanford-BinetIntelligenceScaleandtheWechslerIntelligenceScales（bothcomeinadultandchildren'sversion）。Generallycostingseveralhundreddollars，theyareusuallygivenonlybypsychologists，althoughvariationsofthempopulatebookstoresandtheWorldWideWeb.SuperhighscoreslikevosSavant’sarenolongerpossible，becausescoringisnowbasedonastatisticalpopulationdistr ibutionamongagepecks，rathertansimplydividingthementalarebythechronologicalageandmultiplyingby100.Otherstandardizedtests，suchastheScholasticAssessmentTest（SAT）andtheGraduateRecordExam（GRE），capturethemainaspectsofIQtests.

Suchstandardizedtestsmaynotassessalltheimportantelementsnecessarytosucceedinschoolandinlife，arguesRobertJ.Sternberg.Inhisarticle“HowIntelligentIsIntelligenceTesting？”。Sternbergnotesthattr aditionaltestsbestassessanalyticalandverbalskillsbutfailtomeasurecreativityandpracticalknowledge，componentsalsocriticaltoproblemsolvingandlifesuccess.Moreover，IQtestsdonotnecessarilypredictsowelloncepopulationsorsituationschange.ResearchhasfoundthatIQpredictedleadershipsillswhenthetestsweregivenunderlow-str essconditions，butunderhigh-str essconditions.IQwasnegativelycorrelatedwithleadership-thatisitpredictedtheopposite.AnyonewhobastoiledthroughSATwilltestifythattest-takingskillalsomatters，whetherit‘sknowingwhentoguessorwhatquestionsofskip.

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26.Whichofthefollowingmayberequiredinanintelligencetest？

[A]Answeringphilosophicalquestions.

[B]Foldingorcuttingpaperintodifferentshapes.

[C]Tellingthedifferencesbetweencertainconcepts.

[D]Choosingwordsorgraphssimilartothegivenones.