Chapter Twenty-Three: Hideous
As a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Lydia has always been secretly proud of her IQ. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 But when she began volunteering as an English teacher, her pride was quickly shattered.
The first wave of blows came from the vertical and horizontal learning method.
In response to Zongheng's request to learn English in the shortest possible time, Lydia enthusiastically recommended a special plan for her mother Marilyn when she was learning English as a child.
When Marilyn was younger, she had a strong desire to become a doctor. But during her college years, a love affair with James, who was a lecturer at the time, and an unexpected pregnancy forced her to interrupt her studies and become a housewife who did daily household chores.
The unsatisfactory life made Marilyn pin all her hopes on her eldest daughter, Lydia. When she was born, the first sight of her daughter's big blue eyes made her decide to make Lydia one of the world's top doctors.
In order to realize this dream, Marilyn went around collecting, studying, and researching various teaching theories, and tried to make her daughter receive an early education. By the time Lydia was in third grade, she had mastered all the vocabulary required in twelfth grade. And this is just a small result of Marilyn's own early education programs.
Such a high-intensity early education can of course be painful. At least Lydia felt that her childhood was nothing short of miserable. But now that Nemo has a strong desire to master English as soon as possible, this plan can definitely be adapted to his requirements with a little modification. After all, this boy's ability to resist pressure and endure pain is stronger than Lydia when she was a child.
According to Lydia's estimate, as long as she follows the revised plan, she will be able to master the English level of the twelfth grade in two years. You know, in the United States, college is after the twelfth grade.
But Lydia never expected that this plan, which she was full of confidence and strongly recommended, would immediately hit a wall in Zongheng.
"Too slow! I need to master English as soon as possible. The program took two years, which was too slow. Is there a faster way? Zongheng asked.
Lydia was immediately furious.
After several attempts to persuade her to no avail, Lydia became angry and simply asked Marilyn to bring an English-Chinese dictionary from home that was thick enough to kill people, and said angrily: "The fastest way is to memorize the dictionary." If you can memorize the entire dictionary, you will have no problems communicating orally or writing in an English-speaking country. But such a thing, unless it is the kind of super genius who can remember it, it is impossible to do it at all. ”
But she never expected that Zongheng might not be a super genius, but in terms of memory, he absolutely crushed all the geniuses she knew - including herself, who claimed to be a genius.
So, after quickly learning the International Phonetic Alphabet of English from Lydia. The performance of reciting the dictionary quickly page after page began.
Yes! Performance!
When teaching the International Phonetic Alphabet, Lydia was not too surprised, although she felt that Zongheng was learning quite quickly. After all, the full IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet, also known as the International Phonetic Alphabet, abbreviated as IPA) is a symbol system used to phonetize all languages around the world. There are 107 individual letters, as well as 56 diacritics and hyperphonic components. In comparison, there are only 48 vowels and consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet of English, which can be learned with a little effort as long as the IQ is normal. But when Zongheng really started to study according to the dictionary entry from A, her mouth never closed again.
Every page of the dictionary only needs to be read carefully two or three times, and then it can be recited word for word. You know, this is not the kind of best-selling book that is only the size of a palm, with thick paper, large fonts, and wide margins, and is disguised as a huge book, but a professional dictionary compiled by many experts and scholars after many years of revision. The paper used for dictionaries is large and thin, and the fonts that can be reduced are densely packed on the paper, so that each page can carry a lot of content. But even so, according to Lydia's calculations, the time spent on memorizing each page was no more than half an hour. In this way, it only takes more than 60 hours to memorize the nearly 3,000-page dictionary. Even if he used to memorize 8 hours a day, it would take him only eight days to memorize the dictionary.
It's horrible! It's a monster! Compared to him, I was simply mentally retarded. Lydia's heart slowly became depressed.
And of course, the peculiar performance of the vertical and horizontal cannot avoid Moretti's eyes. Like Lydia, she was horrified when she first discovered Superman's memory. In addition to the shock, Moretti, who graduated from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago and has always regarded Lydia as his biggest rival in life, has a strong inferiority complex like his old rival.
When I remembered the pain I had endured when I had to give up all kinds of food, shopping, parties and even dates in order to complete various exams, and then I saw that I could arrange a comfortable nap for myself and taste delicious afternoon tea in addition to such a high-intensity study, Moretti almost gritted his silver teeth.
It's so unfair! Is this kid the illegitimate son of God?!
Thinking of the fact that two days ago, this kid took advantage of himself and let himself be caught by Lydia's Bichi, Moretti couldn't wait to take out his gun and surprise this boy who destroyed his confidence! At worst, he should be convicted of excessive defense and even intentional homicide, and let the immigration bureau immediately drive him back to the poor countryside of the Far East!
But will Moretti be able to do that? It's simply impossible!
As an FBI agent, Moretti is well aware of the United States of America's thirst for high-end talent. A teenager like Nemo, who has an inhuman-like memory, is a genius with an explosive IQ nine times out of ten as long as he is not born autistic or an idiot. For such a genius, the immigration bureau is too late to rush to invite people in! Where is it possible to rush out?!
As for the suspicion of overdefense or intentional homicide, with the intelligence he has shown, whether it is the FBI or other departments, which one will take it seriously?
Moretti could imagine that as soon as she reported the matter today, it would not be long before she received a call from her superiors asking her to withdraw immediately.
After thinking about it for a long time, Moretti suddenly had a flash of inspiration. If this matter is reported, it will not hurt her at all!
Anyway, now that the investigation is at an impasse, with Nemo's current age and the available evidence that cannot be scientifically and logically scrutinized, as long as Nemo grits his teeth and does not confess, Moretti will not be able to do anything with him. If it drags on for a long time, it will leave an impression of incompetence on the side of the superiors.
But what if she discovered a rare genius? Not only can the deadlock be broken, but it can even be regarded as a great achievement.
At the thought of this festival, Moretti's face immediately turned cloudy. Without hesitation, she dialed her boss's number.