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[KejciorF]

Hi Everybody,

can you please help me fill the following text. I have written in my answers in bold.

Every day I thank the Lord that I no 7.1.___________ have young children. Scarcely a day goes 7.2. BY without talk of yet 7.3.___________ educational test for children extending right back into7.4.___________ used to be called pre-school. It is not enough any more 7.5. FOR parents to love, cherish and encourage their children. They 7.6._____________ now having to enrol them from their earliest years in a Grand National of educational hurdles.

Michael Howe in �Genius Explained� suggests that, with the sufficient 7.7.____________ of parental encouragement and determination, anyone�s 7.8. CHILD could be a genius. The message propounded by Michael Howe is simple and seductive. Geniuses are not categorically different from the 7.9. REST of humanity, they are made 7.10.___________ born. Genius is not a matter of innate capabilities possessed by very 7.11.______________ .

Howe explores the lives of 7.12. A number of individuals who attract the categorisation, 7.13. LIKE Mozart and Darwin, George Stephenson and the Bronte sisters, Albert Einstein and George Eliot. He finds out that what these geniuses have in 7.14. COMMON is a dedicated parent or mentor, a lengthy 7.15. PERIOD of training, an awesome capacity 7.16.____________ hard work and an utter devotion to their subject.

The idea that average talent, marinated in single-minded determination and fuelled by awesomely hard work, will 7.17. TURN an average child into another Mozart, is like 7.18.____________ to the ears of some fanatical parents.

TIA,

Kate.

[myprofe]

Every day I thank the Lord that I no 7.1. longer have young children. Scarcely a day goes 7.2. BY without talk of yet 7.3. another educational test for children extending right back into7.4. what used to be called pre-school. It is not enough any more 7.5. FOR parents to love, cherish and encourage their children. They 7.6. are now having to enrol them from their earliest years in a Grand National of educational hurdles.

Michael Howe in �Genius Explained� suggests that, with the sufficient 7.7. amount of parental encouragement and determination, anyone�s 7.8. CHILD could be a genius. The message propounded by Michael Howe is simple and seductive. Geniuses are not categorically different from the 7.9. REST of humanity, they are made 7.10. not born. Genius is not a matter of innate capabilities possessed by very 7.11. few .

Howe explores the lives of 7.12. A number of individuals who attract the categorisation, 7.13. LIKE Mozart and Darwin, George Stephenson and the Bronte sisters, Albert Einstein and George Eliot. He finds out that what these geniuses have in 7.14. COMMON is a dedicated parent or mentor, a lengthy 7.15. PERIOD of training, an awesome capacity 7.16. for hard work and an utter devotion to their subject.

The idea that average talent, marinated in single-minded determination and fuelled by awesomely hard work, will 7.17. TURN an average child into another Mozart, is like 7.18. music to the ears of some fanatical parents.
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