Cover of the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.3 - Great expectations for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Read the article again and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. Because Son could play chess before he was three years old.
  2. It's nothing special. It is natural for him.
  3. They receive lots of attention, not all of it positive. They are labelled as overly demanding, treated as money-making machines, and scrutinised like lab rats.
  4. The 'key question' is whether geniuses are born or made.
  5. It is a combination of nature and nurture. (Prodigies are half born, half made.')