It’s not obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers.

　　①For the past several years, the Sunday newspaper supplement Parade has featured a column called “Ask Marilyn.”

　　②People are invited to query Marilyn vos Savant, who at age 10 had tested at a mental level of someone about 23 years old; that gave her an IQ of 228 – the highest score ever recorded.

　　③IQ tests ask you to complete verbal and visual analogies, to envision paper after it has been folded and cut, and to deduce numerical sequences, among other similar tasks.

　　④So it is a bit confusing when vos Savant fields such queries from the average Joe (whose IQ is 100) as, What’s the difference between love and fondness?

　　⑤Or what is the nature of luck and coincidence?

　　⑥It’s not obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers.

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　　①(现象：分1)在过去几年中，《星期日报》增刊上出现了一个名为“玛丽琳问题”的特色专栏。

　　②(并列：分2)人们被邀请向玛丽琳·冯·莎凡提出各种问题。

　　③(并列：分3)此人 10 岁时参加了相当于普通人 23 岁左右水平的智力测试，测试的智商为 228 (智商的最 高记录)。

　　④(并列：分4)智商测试要求你完成的任务常常是：词汇和图形类比、想象纸折叠和剪切后的形状、推导数字序列，等等。

　　⑤(并列：分5)因此，当莎凡回答(智商为 100 的)普通人提出的诸如“爱与喜欢有何区别”或“运气和巧合的本质是什么”这类问题时，她感到有些困惑。

　　⑥(并列：分5)想象物体形状和推算数列的能力，不一定能使人具备足够的能力，来回答那些连最 优秀的诗人和哲学家都回答不了的问题。