Small wonder

Who is Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son

• chess prodigy

• math prodigy

• swimming prodigy

• table tennis prodigy

Answer explanation

In 2004, he won the title of International Great Master

The finely Tilled techniques and logic of chess play come as ____ to Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son as chewing bubble gum.

• ambitiously

• effortfully

• effortlessly

• problematically

Answer explanation

To him, the

nuance Tilled strategies and logic of chess play is something that comes as naturally as chewing bubble gum.

____, Singapore's most recognized young pianist, began reading at the age of two and has been placed in the top 1% in the city-state for the previous three years in an international math competition sponsored by Australia's University of New South Wales.

What does "wunderkind" mean?

• a person who is very well trained

• a person who is very successful at a young age

• a person who has a particularly good gene from his parents

• a person who lives in a particularly good environment to promote their strengths

Answer explanation

wunderkinder is the plural of the word wunderkind, which refers to a child who has been successful since he/she was at a very young age

The unique fMRI scanner in the Southern Hemisphere is in ____ , where American psychologist Michael O'Boyle has been scanning the brains of mathematically talented young people.

• Sydney

• Boston

• Melbourne

• Paris

Answer explanation

Pondering means :

• Thinking carefully about

• talking about

• speaking out

• worry about

Answer explanation

Pondering có nghĩa là cân nhắc về một vấn đề, một việc gì đó

Choose the correct answers

The differences between the brains of prodigies and normal children:

1.      prodigies with an aptitude for numbers show six to seven times more metabolic activity in the right side of their brains.

2.      The frontal lobes in prodigies are also more active than in normal children

3.      The brains of child prodigies are bigger than normal brains

4.      prodigies also can switch very efficiently between the brain’s left and right hemispheres

5.      The brain of a prodigy is physically different from the brain of an ordinary person

• 1,2,3

• 2,3,5

• 3,4,5

• 1,2,4

Answer explanation

The answer is 1,2.4

Basically, the brain of a prodigy and the brain of a normal person is not physically different, only different in activity and metabolism.