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Kim Ung-yong Child Prodegy

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“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well” by this Rene Descartes may have meant that there is no reason to have a good brain if you don't know how to use it.Kim Ung-yong is Korean child Prodegy born in 1962 and he is the smartest one alive in today's world.
Kim Ung-yong scored a 210 IQ on the Stanford-Binet test according to the Guinness Book of World Records. He began to learn differential calculus at the age of three. He was able to read and write in Japanese, Korean, German, and English by his fourth birthday. At the age of four, on November 2, 1967, he solved complicated differential and integral calculus problems on Japanese television, demonstrated his proficiency in German, English, Japanese, and Korean, and composed poetry.
Kim was a guest student of physics at Hanyang University from the age of three until he was six. At the age of seven he was invited to the United States by NASA. He finished his university studies, eventually getting a Ph.D in physics at Colorado State University before he was 15. In 1974, during his university studies, he began his research work at NASA and continued this work until his return to Korea in 1978.

When he returned to Korea, he decided to switch from physics to civil engineering and eventually received a doctorate in that field. Kim was offered the chance to study at the most prestigious universities in Korea, but instead chose to attend a provincial university.





Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ung-yong

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While You Read - Guided Reading Questions - answer the following questions:
1. What is a prodigy and why does the mother want the main character to become one?
Ans:Prodigy is a young person who is very talented or intelligent. She wants her daughter to become famous and rich. Also the mother believes that a person can be anything that wants in America.
2. How does the mother prepare her daughter for fame?
Ans:Every night after dinner her mother presents her new tests on different subject and tries to find her talent.
3. What talents does the girl have?
Ans:She has telent to make her mom happy.
4. Why does she start the piano lessons and how is the mother going to pay for them?
ANS: She started having piano lessons because her mother saw a TV show where a Chinese girl, about nine years old playing piano with Peter Pan haircut. She talked to Mr. Chong, a retired piano teacher and she made a contract with him that she will clean his house everyday if he teaches her daughter how to play piano
5. Describe the piano teacher.
Ans:He was a deaf. He lived on the first floor of Jing-Mei's apartment building. He was a retired piano teacher. He helped her lot to teach her how to play piano.
6. What do Auntie Lindo and Jing-Mei's mother have in common?
ANS: Auntie Lindo and Jing-Mei's mother have in common that both want their child to whatever they want.
7. In your own words, relate the events of the recital.
ANS:When she is going to play piano her parent’s invites many people to see are playing piano. She was very confident that she can play the piano. Her mother was very nervous that if her daughter made any mistake. At the end, a little boy says to his mother that it was terrible.
8. What does the author mean when she says, "I didn't have to do what my mother said anymore... This wasn't China"? page 97
Ans:The author means that she is not a little girl that someone else has to make the decisions for her. She had her own choice .She will make her own decision for herself.
9. What words does the author use to describe her mother's disappointment in her?
Ans:The author use ,quiet,silent and blank to describe her mother's disappointment in he
10. Why does Jing-mei come back to play the piano after her mother's death?
Ans:Because her mother wants her to play piano.Her mother believe that anyone can be anything in American so her mother's wish was to have a prodigy daughter.After her mom death she wants to do something that her mother wants her to do. She knew that her mother wants her to play piano at least once in her life.