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Transtlate The results of the annual college entrance examinations are in, and the media are full of success stories.
We're told that Li Taibo, a senior at Renmin University High School, obtained the highest score in science in Beijing. Li is no bookworm, according to the media, which describe him as a guy who plays the piano, loves Mozart and painting, and chairs the student union.
Li has won a national mathematics competition three times, and has twice gone to the North Pole on science expeditions. He plans to major in engineering and business management at Hong Kong University, which has offered him a full scholarship.
We've also heard about a few students who were not top scorers. The story of Yang Hang, of Liaoning province, has been widely publicized because he is only 12 and is the youngest college applicant in his province. According to his mother, Yang memorized multiplication tables before he turned two. At 3, he could add and subtract three-digit numbers and multiply two-digit numbers in his head.
These stories are familiar at this time of year, but they attract a lot of avid readers because they are written in such a way as to demonstrate to parents the best possible ways to help their children succeed.
People still remember Liu Yiting, who enrolled in Harvard University as an undergraduate with a full scholarship in 1999. Her parents wrote two accounts of Liu's success. According to the publisher, the first book, Harvard Girl Liu Yiting (2000), has sold more than two million copies, and the second, Liu Yiting's Study Methods and Training (2004), has sold nearly half a million copies.
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