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　　Many people see a person who can't read or spell as disabled, but what does disabled really mean? Well, with Andrew Mertzit of Maryland it meant he would not be 1 to attend his school any more. Andrew's 2 is that whenever he is reading, he sees the letters p, d, q and b as a 3 and stick. Since Andrew's teachers couldn't 4 him much, Suzanne, Andrew's mother decided to take 5 in her own hands. She decided to home school Andrew. In ten months, Suzanne, a trained reading specialist tried many different 6 to help Andrew with his disability. She helped Andrew with making letters out of sand, rice and shaving cream. Now, about nine years later Andrew is 7 having some problems with reading, but certainly a lot better than before.

　　Lately researchers have been finding many different ways to help learning disabled students by 8 things like rice and shaving cream or even to get little computers. Also, nowadays there are schools all over that have programs to help disabled kids, unlike back in 1995 when Andrew had to be 9 schooled by his mother. But to help disabled students it takes about $ 8.12 billion. You probably think that's a lot of money, but if you 10 that in 1996 there were about 2.6 million kids who were disabled, it may not seem all that 11 . Even though a person may have a learning disability at a certain subject, like reading, it does not mean that he or she doesn't have a talent（才能）at something else. For example, 15 years ago when Joey Hollingsworth entered kindergarten, teachers said that Joey was very clever. Once Joey started getting 12 , his grades got lower. Lots of people just thought he was 13 and had discipline（紀律）problems. Many years later he finally was 14 for learning disabilities and found out he really did have a disability.

　　Still many people believe kids like Joey who can't read or write are lazy. It's hard to understand that 15 a person doesn't look disabled, he can have problems with learning, and it's even harder for the 16 . But now they are getting close to understanding how learning disabilities start. Brain researchers have some new equipment. These machines 17 pictures of the brain while in 18 . They're learning a lot already by examining the brains of the people who have been 19 and who have learning disabilities. It is reported that some of these damaged brain cases are 20

like the picture we see all the time on the learning-disabled cases where we don't know the cause.

　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　 　　

(1) A.willing	B.able	C.ready	D.happy
(2) A.job	B.worry	C.disadvantage	D.disability
(3) A.picture	B.flag	C.square	D.circle
(4) A.help	B.tend	C.teach	D.treat
(5) A.matters	B.letters	C.illness	D.children
(6) A.ways	B.schools	C.hospitals	D.medicine
(7) A.never	B.already	C.still	D.always
(8) A.drawing	B.supplying	C.changing	D.spelling
(9) A.lonely	B.separately	C.joyfully	D.sadly
(10) A.imagine	B.consider	C.suppose	D.except
(11) A.proper	B.little	C.strange	D.bad
(12) A.higher	B.stronger	C.worse	D.older
(13) A.clever	B.late	C.lazy	D.careless
(14) A.questioned	B.tested	C.scolded	D.punished
(15) A.when	B.whether	C.even 　　 if	D.unless
(16) A.parents	B.teachers	C.doctors	D.researchers
(17) A.print	B.take	C.have	D.store
(18) A.moving	B.reaction	C.return	D.action
(19) A.cured	B.recovered	C.dead	D.injured
(20) 　　 A.exactly	B.never	C.hardly	D.luckily

Answer 1

答案：B;D;D;A;A;A;B;B;D;B;C;C;C;B;C;A;B;D;D;A
解析：

(1) be able to do sth.表示“能夠做某事”。A、B、C項都表示“樂意做某事”，和文章意思不符，故B項正確。

(2) 根據上文意思。

(3) 根據上下文意思,Andrew分不清b、d、p、q這幾個字母，是因為這幾個字母的由圓圈和豎道組成，故D項正確。

(4) A、B、D項排除。如選C項，成為“Since Andrew's teacher couldn't teach him much”此句邏輯不通。文中的意思應為：因他有拼寫上的障礙，老師的正常教法對他沒有幫助。故A項正確。

(5) take matters in her own hand“自己來處理達此事”。

(6) 文中的意思為：他媽媽嘗試各種辦法來幫助他。

(7) 根據后面轉折詞but可以看出:Andrew仍然有閱讀障礙，但比以前好多了。

(8) 連貫此句整個意思，A、C、D項排除。研究者們找到的方法是通過一些實物進行形象觀察教學，來提高拼寫能力，因此B項正確。

(9) 根據上下文判斷，Andrew不能和大家一起在學校上課，只能在家單獨學習，故B項正確。

(10) 下文提供的數字是一個事實，故A、C、D項排除。

(11) 根據上文意思。

(12) 根據上文意思，Joey小時候很聰明，但隨著年齡增長，成績下降。

(13) lazy和discipline problems都屬不良行為，與and的并列作用相符，也與文章意思相符。

(14) 文中意思為：許多年后，他在身體檢測時，發現確實有殘疾。

(15) 此處是一個狀語從句，根據文中意思，A、B、D項排除。

(16) (15)、(16)空連接的整個長句的意思為：即使一個看上去很正常的人也可能會有學習上的障礙，這一點很難理解，尤其對于家長來說，更難理解。（自己的孩子聰明伶俐，怎么會有學習上的障礙呢？）因此，A項正確。

(17) take a picture為固定詞組，表示“拍照”。

(18) in action為固定詞組，表示“在運行，在動動”。

(19) 文中意思為：腦子受過傷的。

(20) 英語中表示“非常相像”時，用exactly like。