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A 12-year-old girl who had an inkling (略知) she might be quite clever has sat a test (参加考试) and proved she was absolutely (绝对地) right.
Lydia Sebastian achieved (实现; 取得) the top score (得分) of 162 on Mensa's Cattell III B paper (智商测试题), suggesting she has a higher IQ than well-known (著名的) geniuses (天才) Albert Einstein (阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦) and Stephen Hawking (史蒂芬·霍金).
The comparison (比较) doesn't sit well with the British student, who's currently (现在，现时，目前，当前) in Year 8 at Colchester County high school (中学), a selective (选择性的) girl's grammar school (小学(=elementary school) [美国英语]) in Essex, England.
'I don't think I can be compared to such great intellectuals (知识分子) such as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. They've achieved so much. I don't think it's right,' Lydia told CNN.
Lydia sat the test in her summer holidays (暑假), after raising the idea with her parents and pestering (纠缠) them for the best part of a year.
It turns out (结果为) the test wasn't that hard after all.
'I was really nervous (紧张的) before the test and I thought it was going to be really hard. But as I started the test, I thought it was a bit easier than I thought it was going to be,' she said.
Lydia's not quite sure what she wants to do when she leaves school, although she's leaning toward something 'based around maths, because it's one of my favorite subjects (最喜欢的科目).'
'All I'm going to do is work as hard as I can, and see where that gets me,' she said.
To put Lydia's mark in perspective (正确看待她的分数), the top adult score in the Cattell III B test, which primarily (主要地) tests verbal reasoning (语文/文字推理), is 161. A top 2% score -- which allows entry to Mensa (门萨国际; 入会标准仅限于智商超过98%人口), the club for those with high IQs -- would be 148 or over. Lydia scored 162, placing her in the top 1% of the population (人口).
读后感：
智商148是门萨国际的入门要求，已经是一般人无法企及的了。而她，仅仅12岁，智商高达162，比爱因斯坦和霍金智商还高，活脱脱就是一个天才啊！
话题讨论：
Do you want to test your IQ? Why/Why not?
你想测测自己的智商吗？为什么？
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(英文内容来源于：CNN)
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