Lesson 23

Learning at Home

在家学习

一、（不上学的孩子）
1、Seven-year-old Congcong is a healthy and clever boy, but he does not go to school like other kids.
2、His father, who thinks that school education is not enough for his son, teaches him at home.

二、（智力超常的孩子）
3、Congcong could read newspapers at the age of 4 and did calculations as well as grown-ups when he was only 5.
4、Now he is learning senior school courses, such as math, physics, and chemistry.
5、He has also learned a lot of classical Chinese essays by heart which is not easy even for senior school students.
6、His father claims that he has an English vocabulary of 5,000, which is the number for a non-English-major college student in the country.
7、Congcong's father has decided to let Congcong take the test to enter university in two years' time.