Problem: On a sunny day in July, Sylvia left the front gate open. From the spot where Rex was napping in the grassy yard, he had listened to the sound of the gate sliding open, and waited for it to snap shut. It didn't. The click of Sylvia's shoes faded into the distance, and yet the snap of the shutting gate didn't come. Finally, Rex pushed himself up on one paw so he could look towards the front of the yard, where the gate moved in the breeze. Rex moved slowly towards the gate at first, but as he neared the sidewalk he shot through the opening, his shiny black fur twinkling in the sun as he sped down the street. Rex ran from block to block through the neighborhood, with no leash to pull him back. When all four legs started to burn from running, Rex slowed down and started sniffing the grass around him. His stomach growled and he hoped he'd find some food in the grass. All he found was sidewalk chalk, a few little black ants, and flowers that made him sneeze. The sun was going down, and Rex thought about Sylvia coming home to rub his ears and fill his food bowl. He looked up and down the sidewalk for his home. Nothing. Rex was lost. He stood completely still and raised his ears as high as they would go. He sat and listened, and listened and sat. Just as the sun passed over the mountains in the distance, Rex heard, from very far away, the soft "click click click" of Sylvia walking towards the house. Rex ran home.
1. what did rex hear?
2. what sound did that make?
3. was it loud?
4. what month was it?
5. how was the weather/
6. what did sylvia do on that day?
7. what didn't rex hear?
8. where was he?
9. doing what?
10. what color was he?
11. did rex immediately leave?
12. was his fur matted?
13. where did he run?
14. what wasn't he wearing that he usually did?
15. what did he do when he finished running?
16. what was he feeling then?
17. was he able to get anything to eat?
18. did rex know where his home was?
19. how did he know where it was?
20. where did the sun set behind?
Answer: 1. Sylvia walking towards the house
2. click click click
3. no
4. July
5. sunny
6. left the front gate open
7. the gate closing
8. the yard
9. napping
10. black
11. no
12. no
13. the neighborhood
14. a leash
15. slowed down and started sniffing the grass
16. hungry
17. no
18. no
19. he heard sylvia walking home
20. the mountains

Problem: Indiana is a U.S. state located in the midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America. Indiana is the 38th largest by area and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th U.S. state on December 11, 1816. Indiana borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north, Ohio to the east, Kentucky to the south and southeast, and Illinois to the west.

Before becoming a territory, varying cultures of indigenous peoples and historic Native Americans inhabited Indiana for thousands of years. Since its founding as a territory, settlement patterns in Indiana have reflected regional cultural segmentation present in the Eastern United States; the state's northernmost tier was settled primarily by people from New England and New York, Central Indiana by migrants from the Mid-Atlantic states and from adjacent Ohio, and Southern Indiana by settlers from the Southern states, particularly Kentucky and Tennessee.

Indiana has a diverse economy with a gross state product of $341.9billion in 2016. Indiana has several metropolitan areas with populations greater than 100,000 and a number of smaller industrial cities and towns. Indiana is home to professional sports teams, including the NFL's Indianapolis Colts and the NBA's Indiana Pacers, and hosts several notable athletic events, such as the Indianapolis 500 and Brickyard 400 motorsports races.
1. Which state is this?
2. Of which country?
3. Where is it?
4. Is it the biggest state?
5. Which ranking is it?
6. What about in physical size?
7. When was it created?
8. Which number does that make it?
9. What is above it?
10. And on the right?
11. Left?
12. Below?
13. What body of water is nearby?
Answer: 1. Indiana
2. U.S.
3. located in the midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.
4. no
5. 17th
6. 38th largest
7. December 11, 1816.
8. 19th
9. Michigan
10. Ohio
11. Illinois
12. Kentucky
13. Lake Michigan

Problem: 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?
Answer:
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