(CNN) — A 12 -year-old girl who had a feeling that she might be quite clever has taken a test and proved she was absolutely right.
Lydia Sebastian achieved the top score of 162 on Mensa’s Cattell III B paper, showing she has a higher IQ than well-known geniuses Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. The comparison doesn't sit well with the British student, who’s currently in Year 8 at a selective girl’s grammar school in Essex, England.
“I don't think I can be compared to such great intellectuals as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. They’ve achieved so much. I don’t think it’s right”, Lydia told CNN.
To explain Lydia’s mark’s level, the top adult score in the Cattell III B test, which mainly tests verbal(语言) reasoning, is 161. A top 2% score —which allows entry to Mensa, the club for those with high IQs —would be 148 or over. Lydia scored 162, placing her in the top 1% of the population.
Lydia’s not quite sure what she wants to do when she leaves school, although she’s leaning toward something based on Maths, because it’s one of her favorite subjects. “All I’m going to do is work as hard as I can, and see where that gets me,” she said.
1.The reason why Lydia wanted to have an IQ test was that _______,
A. her parents strongly wanted her to do so.
B. she felt that she might have a high EQ.
C. all people around thought that she was smart.
D. the grammar school advised her to do so.
2.Which of the following can best take the place of the underlined words in the second paragraph?
A. be connected with.
B. be accepted by.
C. be satisfied with.
D. be refused by.
3.What is Lydia’s plan about the future ?
A. She has the possibility of doing something on Maths in the future.
B. She doesn’t have to work hard with her high IQ.
C. She is quite sure about what to do in the future.
D. She will drop out of the grammar school.
4.It can be implied from the passage that ______.
A. No one has achieved a higher IQ than Lydia.
B. Only adults with high IQs can enter Mensa.
C. Whoever has a high IQ can enter Mensa.
D. Mary whose IQ score is 150 can enter Mensa.
Donna Strickland was awarded the 2018 Nobel prize for physics jointly with Arthur Ashkin and Gérard Mourou. It’s the first time in 55 years that a woman has won this famous prize, but why has it taken so long? We look at five other pioneering female physicists — past and present — who actually deserve the prize.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Perhaps the most famous snub(冷落): then-student Bell discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967, when she was a PhD student at Cambridge. The Nobel prize that recognized this landmark discovery in 1974, however, went to her male supervisor, Antony Hewish. Recently awarded a £2.3m Breakthrough Prize, which she gave away to help under-represented students, she joked to the Guardian，“I feel I’ve done very well out of not getting a Nobel prize.”
Lene Hau
Hau is best known for leading the research team at Harvard University in 1999 that managed to slow a beam of light, before managing to stop it completely in 2001. Often topping Nobel prize prediction lists, could 2019 be Hau’s year?
Vera Rubin
Rubin discovered dark matter in the 1980s, opening up a new field of astronomy. She died in 2016, without recognition from the committee.
Chien-Shiung Wu
Wu’s “Wu experiment” helped disprove the “law of conservation of parity”. Her experimental work was helpful but never honoured, and instead, her male colleagues won the 1957 Nobel prize for their theoretical work behind the study.
Lise Meitner
Meitner led groundbreaking work on the discovery of nuclear fission. However, the discovery was acknowledged by the 1944 Nobel prize for chemistry, which was won by her male co-lead, Otto Hahn.
1.When was the discovery of radio pulsars recognized by the Nobel?
A. In 1944 B. In 1967.
C. In 1974. D. In 1980.
2.Which woman is most likely to win a Nobel prize later according to the text?
A. Donna Strickland
B. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
C. Lene Hau
D. Vera Rubin
3.What do we know about the five females?
A. The five female scientists did greatly in chemistry.
B. Vera Rubin had opened up a new field in geometry.
C. Lise Meitner’s teacher won a Noble prize for her work.
D. All their findings haven’t been recognized by the Nobel.
______ makes mistakes must correct them.
A. Who B. Anyone
C. Whoever D. Anybody
______ surprised me most was ______ such a little boy of seven could play the violin so well.
A. That...what B. What...that
C. That...which D. What...which
I couldn’t understand _____ with me.
A. the matter was what B. what was the matter
C. what the matter was D. that was the matter
This painting is splendid, but ______ we actually need it is a different matter.
A. that B. what
C. whether D. how
