AlexisMartinisathree-year-oldgirlfromArizona.Shehasn’tstartedkindergarten(幼儿园)yetbutshehasanIQabove160whichiswellabovetheaverage(一般的)people’sIQ.Sothereisnowonderthatshehasbecometheyoungestme

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Alexis Martin is a three-year-old girl from Arizona. She hasn’t started kindergarten(幼儿园)yet but she has an IQ above 160 which is well above the average (一般的)people’s IQ. So there is no wonder that she has become the youngest member of Mensa the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. Mensa is an international club whose members must have an IQ score in the top 2% of the world. Currently Mensa has 3 300 members under the age of 18 in the U.S. Alexis is one of them.

The average people generally have an IQ score of 100 points but Alexis scored 160 points the highest score on the test. The doctors who tested Alexis said she scored so high that they couldn’t even work out her IQ exactly. They think she is even smarter than 99.9% ofthe world population. Actually she matched the IQs of talents like Albert Einstein Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates.

Ian Martin Alexis’ father said his daughter showed signs of some special abilities at the age of one and she began reading books for pupils when she was just two years old. Now at the age of three Alexis is reading on a fifth gradelevel.

“From 12 months old we’d be driving around in the car and she would repeat her bedtimestories from the night before ”he said. “She didn’t just repeat them. She could remember every word of them exactly.”

Ian Martin thinks his daughter also stands out when it comes to learning new languages. “Anytime she learns a word and just picks it up through anything. She never ever uses it in the incorrect situation ever.”Ian said.

While Alexis’s parents are proud that their three-year-old daughter has become a member in Mensa they are also aware of the price that comes with every gift. The doctors say Alexis should never attend a normal school and children with her level of intelligence(智力)

often experience high anxiety(焦虑) unless they’re around similarly gifted boys and girls. Her parents decide to follow the advice and try to look for proper ways to help her get involved into society.

1. Mensa only accepts ____________.

A. teenagers under 18 in the U.S.

B. people with IQs above 160 in the U.S.

C. talents in the world like Albert Einstein

D. people withIQs in the top 2% of the world

2. From the passage we know that Alexis’ IQ is____________.

A. getting higher through training

B. beyond the limit of the IQ test

C. above the IQ of Stephen Hawking

D. growing too fast to get an exact score

3. One of Alexis’ special abilities is that____________.

A. she could read stories at the age of one