ĐỀ SỐ 10A prodigy is defined as a person with a great natural ability which shows itself at an early age; they may become expert musicians or be (1)______ of doing complex mathematics. Some youngsters develop (2) _____ remarkable abilities that they attract the (3) _____ of the media, like Arran Fernandez, a five-year old who became the youngest person to pass a GCSE, an exam for school leavers. He had obviously benefited intellectually (4) ______ being taught at home by his parents,who said that their son was still a happy and normal child (5) ______ never having been to any form of school. Arran could add up at the age of two and a half, so he obviously had a natural gift, but withouta great deal of effort on the part of his parents, it's unlikely that he would have applied (6)______ to serious study. The role of parents (7) ______ in such cases is highly controversial. Many people believe that the more you push young children, the greater the chances are that the child will have social and emotional problems (8) ______ in life. The story of another young person, Sufiah Yusof, who entered university at the age of 13, is often quoted as proof of this. She (9) _____ out of her studies at Oxford two years later, claiming that her parents' attitude towards her constituted emotional abuse. It seems that being a prodigy is (10) _______ substitute for a normal childhood.

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