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Experts say dyslexia affects about five to ten percent of the population of the United State. Researchers have long known that people with dyslexia write or read words and letters backwards in the wrong order.
But a new study shows that people with dyslexia may have trouble redirecting(重新传入) their attention between senses, from seeing something to hearing something. The study suggests something that might help dyslexic people learn more quickly - play video games.
Vanessa Harrar of Britain"s University of Oxford led the study. She reported the findings in the journal Current Biology. The study suggests that dyslexic people may have trouble moving quickly from what they read to what they hear. Doctor Harrar calls this a "sluggish shifting of attention across the senses."
"So, if you are trying to read something and then trying to listen to somebody who"s reading aloud and you"re trying to follow along with what they are reading -- they have to switch their attention from hearing what they are saying to looking at the piece of paper and back again. So we found they have quite sluggish shifting of attention across the senses," said Harrar.
In the study, Doctor Harrar tested 17 people with dyslexia, and 19 others without reading problems. The volunteers were asked to push a button as quickly as possible when they heard a sound, saw a light or experienced both together. Doctor Harrar compared the speed of their reactions.
She found that people with dyslexia were just as fast as the others when they saw only a picture or heard only a sound. But the dyslexics had a slower reaction time when they heard a sound and saw a picture at the same time.
Doctor Harrar feels like playing action video games could help dyslexic people shift from seeing to hearing more quickly. She adds that images in video games force the eyes to move and focus quickly.
"Video game types of things pop out of here and there, they move your eyes around the screen quite quickly in response to things quite quickly, and the more you play a video game the faster you get that kind of thing. So, the video game is really training the attention system to move quickly," said Harrar.
The study also shows that dyslexic people have the most difficulty going between what they saw and what they heard, this may have an effect on how dyslexic children are taught how to read.
When children learn the alphabet,they usually see the letter first and then hear the sound, or they see and hear the letter at the same time. The study shows that dyslexics might learn more quickly if they hear the sound of a letter or word first before seeing it.
小题1:What is the main idea of the passage?
A.Video Games are good for children. |
B.Study Suggests Video Games Might Help Dyslexics |
C.A study about Video Games is being carried out. |
D.Children with Dyslexics can learn better by playing video games. |
A.writing or reading words and letters backwards in the wrong order. |
B.redirecting their attention between senses, from seeing something to hearing something. |
C.moving quickly from what they read to what they hear. |
D.seeing a picture or hearing a sound. |
A.slow | B.wrong | C.specific | D.accurate |
A.While playing video games, people will train their reading and hearing. |
B.While playing video games, people will have a good knowledge of the system. |
C.While playing video games, people should move their eyes around the screen quite quickly train the attention system to move quickly. |
D.Video games can arouse their interest in reading. |
A.The finding will prove video games are not necessarily bad for children. |
B.People with Dyslexia will be cured by playing video games. |
C.People with Dyslexia will not be made fun of by others. |
D.The finding may have an effect on the way to teach dyslexic children how to read. |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:D
解析
小题1:主旨题:从全篇文章和第三段的句子:The study suggests something that might help dyslexic people learn more quickly - play video games.可知这篇文章讲的是玩视频游戏可能能帮助失读症的人。选B。
小题2:细节题:从文章第二段的句子:Researchers have long known that people with dyslexia write or read words and letters backwards in the wrong order.可知A是对的,从文章第三段的句子:But a new study shows that people with dyslexia may have trouble redirecting(重新传入) their attention between senses, from seeing something to hearing something.可知B是对的,从第四段的句子:The study suggests that dyslexic people may have trouble moving quickly from what they read to what they hear.可知C是对的,但是文章没有说失读症的人看图片和听声音有困难。选D。
小题3:猜词题:从第四段的句子:The study suggests that dyslexic people may have trouble moving quickly from what they read to what they hear. Doctor Harrar calls this a "sluggish shifting of attention across the senses."可知失读症的人很快的从读的东西转换到听见的东西有困难,也就是说注意力转换的慢。选A。
小题4:细节题:从倒数第三段的句子:"Video game types of things pop out of here and there, they move your eyes around the screen quite quickly in response to things quite quickly, and the more you play a video game the faster you get that kind of thing.可知玩视频游戏的时候,人们要在屏幕上迅速移动目光这里可以训练他们的注意力。选C。
小题5:推理题:从倒数第二段的句子:this may have an effect on how dyslexic children are taught how to read.可知通过这项调查的结果,可以影响教失读症儿童读书的方式。选D。
核心考点
试题【Dyslexia(失读症)is a learning disorder, it interferes with the ability to recognise】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
You have to learn and get ready to become versatile in your reading. The fact that you are studying medicine in school does not mean that you should not know one or two things on politics.
Many people have complained to me that they find it hard to read stuffs like novels but I just shake my head in pity for them because it is obvious they have failed to realize the truth in that wise saying by Margaret Fuller that “today a READER, tomorrow a LEADER!”
When you read, you get to “see” so many places and it will be as if you have visited those places in real life. This is because reading will improve your imagination and creativity and understanding. You also get experience from learning about how people dealt with their various problems thereby saving you from going through the pains and difficulties they must have gone through!
Reading will also help you in improving your vocabulary because you will certainly start coming across so many new words which you will try as much as possible to get accustomed to with the help of the dictionary! The good thing about increasing your vocabulary is that it will also improve your thinking ability. After all, we think in words and the more words you know, the easier it will become for you to express yourself or your thoughts.
And when you read, make sure you read so wide because the more you read, the more you know and the more you know the more intelligent you can become.
小题1:According to the author, what should students do in terms of reading?
A.They needn’t read unless the exams come. |
B.They should read books about intelligence. |
C.They must read about politics when their major is medicine. |
D.They should read as wide as possible. |
A.interested | B.many-sided | C.content | D.confident |
A.Increase your ability for reading |
B.Read wide and improve your vocabulary |
C.Reading improves your intelligence |
D.Reading makes you a leader tomorrow |
A.You will get used to referring to the dictionary when meeting with new words. |
B.You will have less difficulty expressing your opinions. |
C.Vocabulary will improve your creativity. |
D.You can pass your exams with ease. |
“A lot of parents think after their child learns to read, they should stop reading to them,” Donna George said. “They are sadly mistaken.”
George offers her services to parents at the Title I Learning Centers. She said reading aloud to children may be the most valuable(有价值的) thing parents can do. “It is better for children to hear things at a higher level than where they are,” George said. “Parents are their child’s first teacher.” Parents help their children build listening, phonics(拼读法), comprehension(阅读理解) and vocabulary skills when they read aloud to them.
Before parents can identify reading problems, they should escape the enemy----television and limit the time their children spend watching television. George suggested not allowing kids to have a TV in their bedrooms, setting a schedule of when kids can watch or keeping a list of how many programs children watch. Louise Joiners said while her 14-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son enjoy reading, the television sometimes becomes a distraction. So she tries to build the situation by suggesting books the entire family will enjoy reading together, like the Harry Potter series.
Parents who do not read themselves should not depend on their children being enthusiastic about it. If parents would read to their children at least 15 minutes every day, children would not have so many problems in school. It is the parents’ job to help build that desire in their children, and of course to know what kind of books to read is also important.
小题1:The underlined word “distraction” means something that .
A.can improve children’s reading. |
B.can make children interested |
C.can make children not pay their attention |
D.can help children’s right way of reading |
A.reading speed | B.reading environment |
C.reading skills | D.reading materials |
A.What TV programs children can watch during reading. |
B.Advice is given to control their children. |
C.Parents choose reading materials for their children. |
D.How children improve their reading by themselves. |
A.Parents Are Their Child’s First Teacher. |
B.How to Improve Children’s Reading Ability. |
C.Children Spend More Time Reading with Parents. |
D.How Parents Make Their Child a Better Reader. |
Down-cutting is when a flood of water rushes over a landscape (地形) with enough force to cut deeply into the ground and leaves behind a canyon. Such a flood is usually released when a natural or man-made dam (堤坝) bursts.
Robert Webb, a research geologist, says natural dams seem to have formed and broken across the Colorado River several times during the last million years. The dams were built when lava(熔岩) from the eruptions of nearby volcanoes flowed into the river. The lava hardened into hard rocks and blocked the river, causing it to back up and form a lake. Each time the lake grew so huge that it broke the rock dam, releasing a flash flood that furthered the down-cutting process and deepened the canyon.
Down-cutting is not just an earthly event. Satellite photos sent back from Mars suggest that the process has happened there, too, say many other researchers.
The photos, taken by the Mars Global Surveyor, indicate that an enormous lake existed on Mars 3.5 billion years ago. The lake spilled into a large nearby hole. One edge of the hole broke, releasing a flash flood that quickly carved out a grand canyon.
The existence of down-cutting on Mars is just one more piece of evidence that the cold, dry planet was once warm and wet.
小题1:In the past, deep canyons were believed to have formed _______.
A.as a result of a sudden break of volcanoes |
B.due to river flows over millions of years |
C.owing to the burst of artificial dams |
D.thanks to our ancestors’ creative work |
A.Several volcanoes broke out on Mars directly creating grand canyons. |
B.Several great lakes existed on the upper parts of the Colorado River. |
C.People built high dams on the upper parts of the Colorado River. |
D.The Colorado River crossed the Grand Canyon to form down-cutting. |
A.there are great lakes on Mars |
B.there are active volcanoes on Mars |
C.there might be cities on Mars |
D.there might be life on Mars |
A.Lakes on Earth and Mars |
B.The Cause of Lake Formation |
C.The Force of Dam Breaking |
D.Canyons—Results of Flood Cutting |
Even in a weak job market, the old college try isn’t the answer for everyone. A briefing paper from the Brookings Institution warns that “we may have overdone the message” on college, senior fellow Isabel Sawhill said.
“We’ve been telling students and their families for years that college is the only way to succeed in the economy and of course there’s a lot of truth to that,” Ms. Sawhill said. “On average it does pay off… But if you load up on a whole lot of student debt and then you don’t graduate, that is a very bad situation.”
One comment that people often repeat among the years of slow job growth has been the value of education for landing a job and advancing in a career. April’s national unemployment rate stood at 7.5%, according to the Labor Department. The unemployment rate for high-school graduates over 25 years old who hadn’t attended college was 7.4%, compared with 3.9% for those with a bachelor’s degree or more education. The difference is even bigger among those aged 16-24. The jobless rate for those with only a high school diploma in that age group is about 20%. At the same time, recent research by Canadian economists cautions that a college degree is no guarantee of promising employment.
Ms. Sawhill pointed out that among the aspects that affect the value of a college education is the field of one’s major: Students in engineering or other sciences end up earning more than ones who major in the arts or education. The cost of tuition and the availability of financial aid are other considerations, with public institutions generally a better financial bargain than private ones.
She suggested two avenues for improving the situation: increasing vocational(职业的)-technical training programs and taking a page from Europe’s focus on early education rather than post-secondary learning. “The European countries put a little more attention to getting people prepared in the primary grades,” she said. “Then they have a higher bar for whoever goes to college—but once you get into college, you’re more likely to be highly subsidized(资助).”
She also is a supporter of technical training—to teach students how to be plumbers, welders and computer programmers—because “employers are desperate” for workers with these skills.
小题1:People usually think that _____.
A.the cost of technical schooling is a problem |
B.one will not succeed without a college degree |
C.technical skills are most important for landing a job |
D.there is an increased competition in getting into a college |
A.Hearing from. | B.Changing from. |
C.Differing from. | D.Learning from. |
A.Public institutions charge more for education. |
B.European universities are stricter with students. |
C.Students with certain skills are in great demand. |
D.Canadian students prefer to major in engineering. |
A.too much stress has been put on the value of college degrees |
B.technical training is more important than college education |
C.a college degree will ensure promising employment |
D.it’s easier for art students to find favorite jobs |
Most young people believe that cheating is wrong. However, they have cheated at least once in their high school years. So, why do they do it? Are they too lazy to study? Perhaps, it’s not as simple as that. According to some experts, one main reason why students cheat is that they see their friends get away with it. It’s an easy way out. They avoid embarrassment and their parents’ anger for not doing well in an exam. Another reason is that students think it’s OK to cheat if the subject isn’t important for their future career. What’s more, most students have to put up with the pressure of getting into university. They need to get good marks to carry on with their studies. This means that there will always be students who will do anything for a better mark.
It has never been easier to cheat than it is today. With all the technology available, students needn’t cheat by looking over their shoulders anymore. They use mobile phones to send answers to each other during a test. There is also the Internet. With hundreds of websites, students don’t have to worry because they can find lots of material which they can copy and use in projects. There are even tips on the art of cheating in exams.
Obviously, if you get caught cheating, you fail the exam or the subject. But it doesn’t really matter whether you get caught or not. What’s important is that it’s wrong. You mustn’t cheat because cheating is a lie. It deceives (欺骗) people into thinking you know more than you actually do. How can you be proud of something you have achieved through cheating? In the end, it’s not about deceiving your teachers and your parents, but about fooling yourself that you can do something you really can’t.
小题1:The tough decision that many students have to make before an exam is .
A.whether to cheat or not | B.what to do if they fail |
C.how to cheat | D.how to keep calm |
A.The subjects are important for their future. | B.They are too lazy to study. |
C.Cheating can help them please their parents. | D.Their friends ask them to cheat. |
A.you cheat others and yourself |
B.you can get caught and fail |
C.you give others a bad impression |
D.your teacher will inform your parents |
A.Cheating can be explained but not excused. |
B.Technology has made cheating easier. |
C.Students cheat to get into university. |
D.Cheating is a social and psychological problem. |
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