Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER XXXV. 

Were uneasiness of conscience measured by extent of crime, human history had been different, and one should look to see the contrivers of greedy wars and the mighty marauders of the money-market in one troop of self-lacerating penitents with the meaner robber and cut-purse and the murderer that doth his butchery in small with his own hand. No doubt wickedness hath its rewards to distribute; but who so wins in this devil's game must needs be baser, more cruel, more brutal than the order of this planet will allow for the multitude born of woman, the most of these carrying a form of conscience--a fear which is the shadow of justice, a pity which is the shadow of love--that hindereth from the prize of serene wickedness, itself difficult of maintenance in our composite flesh. 

On the twenty-ninth of December Deronda knew that the Grandcourts had arrived at the Abbey, but he had had no glimpse of them before he went to dress for dinner. There had been a splendid fall of snow, allowing the party of children the rare pleasures of snow-balling and snow-building, and in the Christmas holidays the Mallinger girls were content with no amusement unless it were joined in and managed by "cousin," as they had always called Deronda. After that outdoor exertion he had been playing billiards, and thus the hours had passed without his dwelling at all on the prospect of meeting Gwendolen at dinner. Nevertheless that prospect was interesting to him; and when, a little tired and heated with working at amusement, he went to his room before the half-hour bell had rung, he began to think of it with some speculation on the sort of influence her marriage with Grandcourt would have on her, and on the probability that there would be some discernible shades of change in her manner since he saw her at Diplow, just as there had been since his first vision of her at Leubronn. 
1. What is measured by degree of criminality?
2. Who arrived in December?
3. Who knew this?
4. Did he see them before his meal?
5. What did he do before eating?
6. How was the weather?
7. What were the kids gonna do?
8. Which kids wanted to play with "cousin?"
9. Who was "cousin?"
10. What was he doing?
11. Who did he plan to meet later?
12. Where did he go before something rang?
13. Who was she engaged to?
14. Where had he seen Gwen?
15. And where else had he seen her?

Numbered answers:
1. unknown
2. the Grandcourts
3. Deronda
4. no
5. went to dress
6. it was snowing
7. snow-balling and snow-building
8. Mallinger girls
9. Deronda
10. playing billiards
11. Gwendolen
12. to his room
13. Grandcourt
14. at dinner
15. Leubronn


Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
If you ask Americans whether or not they think their former president George W. Bush is smart, most of them will probably tell you they don't think so. However, Bush's IQ score is estimated to be above 120, which puts him in the top ten percent of the population. 

It doesn't seem to make sense. How come someone with such an IQ score is not considered smart? Researchers say: IQ does not tell the whole story. Some people have high IQ scores, but still they can be poor thinkers and decision-makers. 

Keith Stanovich, a Canadian professor of human development and applied psychology, has been looking into the "clever fools" phenomenon for 15 years. He says IQ tests are very good at measuring certain mental faculties , including logic, learning ability, working-memory capacity (how much information you can hold in mind), etc. Those faculties play a part in one's academic success, but rational thinking is more important for us to make good judgments in real-life situations. 

IQ tests fail to work when it comes to rational thinking. That's because they are unable to assess things such as a person's ability to weigh up information, or whether an individual can set aside the cognitive biases that may be misleading. 

"A high IQ is like height in a basketball player," says David Perkins, who studies thinking and reasoning skills at Harvard University. "It is very important, all other things being equal. But all other things aren't equal. It takes a lot more to be a good basketball player than being tall, and it takes a lot more to be a good thinker than having a high IQ."
1. What anomaly has someone been checking out for many years?
2. Is there a nickname for it?
3. Who was doing the research?
4. Is he American?
5. What is he?
6. How long has be been researching it?
7. Are the evaluations good for testing rationale?
8. What are they good at testing?
9. Does anyone make an analogy?
10. What does he compare it to?


Numbered answers:
1. How come someone with such an IQ score is not considered smart?
2. clever fools
3. Keith Stanovich
4. no
5. Canadian
6. 15 years
7. No
8. mental faculties , including logic, learning ability, working-memory capacity (how much information you can hold in mind), etc
9. David Perkins
10. IQ is like height in a basketball player