Having a learning disability doesn’t mean you can’t learn, but you’ll need some help and need to work extra hard. If you have a learning disability such as dyslexia or dyscalculia, remember that you are not slow or stupid.
Learning disabilities can be genetic. That means they can be passed down in families through the genes. But kids today have an advantage over their parents. Learning experts now know a lot more about the brain and how learning works, and it’s easier for kids to get the help they need.
Dyslexia is a learning disability that means a kid has a lot of trouble reading and writing. Kids who have trouble with math may have dyscalculia. Other kids may have language disorders, meaning they have trouble understanding language and what they read.
It can be confusing, though. How do we tell if a student has a learning disability? Reading, doing math, and writing letters may be tough for lots of kids at first. But when those troubles don’t fade away and it’s really difficult to make any progress, it’s possible that the kid has a learning disability.
Finding out you have a learning disability can be upsetting. You might feel different from everyone else. But the truth is that learning disabilities are pretty common. And if your learning specialist or psychologist has figured out which one you’re facing, you’re on the right track. Now, you can start getting the help you need to do better in school.
But for this special help to really work, you’ll need to practice the new skills you’re learning. It may take a lot of efforts every day. That can be a challenge, but you can do it. Soon, you’ll enjoy the results of all your hard work: more fun and success at school.
1. Children are likely to have a learning disability _________.| A．if their parents have the same problem |
| B．if they are not interested in a subject |
| C．if they don’t get help in time |
| D．if they don’t work hard |
| A．It is a physical disease. |
| B．It can be treated by doctors. |
| C．It happens to children who are lazy. |
| D．It gets children into trouble when they learn a subject. |
| A．The teacher says he or she is a slow student. |
| B．He or she can’t make progress after hard work. |
| C．He or she has trouble with some lessons at first. |
| D．His or her learning style is different from that of others. |
| A．To find out the reasons for the learning disability. |
| B．To get parents to know more about their children. |
| C．To help students know and handle the learning disability. |
| D．To ask teachers to help students with the learning disability. |
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【推荐1】A French cook is preparing foods with something surprising: insects. The European Union has recently approved some sorts of insects as an acceptable food product. Insects provide many nutrients and are an environmentally friendly food
The food Laurent Veyet prepares is not for those with little bravery. However, what he is preparing may point to the future of feeding a growing world population. One of his foods is a prawn（对虾）salad with yellow mealworms（黄粉虫）. It includes insects on a bed of vegetables with grasshoppers（蚂蚱）covered in chocolate, a food usually meant for sweets. The restaurant is located in Paris among others with outdoor seating and plenty of sunlight. Eaters who are ready to try something different approve of Veyet's complex foods.
The Parisian cook talked about the perfect meal for first-timers. He was preparing a pasta（意大利面食）made with crushed mealworms, sweet potatoes and young insects cooked on the stove. He said, "There are some really interesting flavors. Not many people could say they don't like that."
Mealworms, and insects more generally, could provide a sustainable food source that produces low greenhouse gases for the future.
Soheil Ayari was eating with his two daughters. He approved of the food. He said, "I feel like I am in a traditional restaurant. Only the idea behind was different, and honestly, the tastes are very similar to traditional food."
Veyet grows his mealworms on site. He feeds them cooked grains and vegetables. While the mealworm may not look like something worth eating, it is in fact the young period of the darkling beetle（黑甲虫）. These beetles are rich in protein, fat and other nutrients. The mealworm can be used in many different meals. It can be cooked whole and eaten, or it can be ground to help make foods like bread.
1. Why did the EU approve the insect food?| A．Because it is an acceptable food for all. | B．Because it is not poisonous. |
| C．Because it has some advantages. | D．Because it can be available easily |
| A．All eaters welcome the insect foods. | B．Insect foods have come into people' s kitchen. |
| C．Insects feeding will interest many people | D．Insect foods may support more people on the earth. |
| A．To show the insect food is acceptable. |
| B．To show he likes the insect food. |
| C．To show insect food is better than traditional food. |
| D．To compare the insect food restaurant with the traditional ones |
| A．To discuss methods of cooking insect food. | B．To introduce a kind of food-insect food. |
| C．To stress the advantages of insect food | D．To appeal for acceptance of insect food. |
【推荐2】The days of having a dictionary on your bookshelf are numbered. But that’s OK, because everyone already walks around with a dictionary — not the one on your phone, but the one in your head.
Just like a physical dictionary, your mental dictionary contains information about words. This includes the letters, sounds and meaning, or semantics, of words, as well as information about parts of speech and how you can fit words together to form grammatical sentences. While a physical dictionary is helpful for shared knowledge, your personal mental dictionary is customized based on your individual experiences.
What words are in your mental dictionary might overlap with the mental dictionary of someone else who also speaks the same language, but there will also be a lot of differences between the content of your dictionaries. You add words to your mental dictionary through your educational, occupational, cultural and other life experiences. This customization also means that the size of mental dictionaries is a little bit different from person to person and varies by age. Researchers found that the average 20-year-old American English speaker knows about 42,000 unique words, and this number grows to about 48,000 by age 60. Some people will have even larger vocabularies.
However, your mental dictionary can’t be like a physical dictionary since it is dynamic and quickly accessed. Your brain’s ability to retrieve a word is very fast. In one study, researchers mapped the time course of word retrieval among 24 college students by recording their brain activities while they named pictures. They found evidence that participants selected words within 200 milliseconds of seeing the image. After word selection, their brains continued to process information about that word, like what sounds are needed to say that chosen word and ignoring related words. This is why you can retrieve words with such speed in real-time conversations, often so quickly that you give little conscious attention to that process.
The next time you have a conversation with someone, take a moment to reflect on why you chose the specific words you did. Remember that the words you use and the mental dictionary you have are part of what make you and your voice unique.
1. In paragraph 2, the author explains “mental dictionary” by ________.| A．making comparisons | B．analyzing influences |
| C．drawing conclusions | D．offering assumptions |
| A．People’s vocabulary will peak at the age of 60. |
| B．The content of one’s mental dictionary is inherited. |
| C．Careers have an impact on the size of a mental dictionary. |
| D．Native English speakers share the same mental dictionaries. |
| A．Revise. | B．Reacquire. | C．Retell. | D．Represent. |
| A．People are aware of the word choosing process. | B．Think twice before what to say in a conversation. |
| C．Print dictionaries will be replaced by mental ones. | D．Our choices of vocabulary probably tell who we are. |
【推荐3】Is there a single word that motivates us more than “weekend”？ It's like the promise of a sweet hereafter following what seems like a lifetime of toil (劳累). It's the spring in our step that gets bouncier with each passing day - until by Friday, we're practically bumping our heads against the ceiling.
The trouble is that the weekend is a rip-off. You think you're getting 48 hours of unconditional downtime, but reality takes a discount. In fact, it takes most of Sunday. That's when anxiety comes creeping in and another countdown begins: 12 hours until Monday. Sure, weekend is free time. But the mounting stress of an incoming Monday can erase any joy you might get from a Sunday evening.
That feeling is so common among the Monday-to-Friday crowd, there's even more than one name for it: the Sunday Scaries, or Sunday Fear Syndrome. Going from a countdown to the weekend to a countdown to Monday can be difficult. Even Monster.com - a website that specializes in yoking humans to the Monday-to-Friday cycle -admits it's a problem. In a survey, Monster found that 76% of Americans have “really bad” Sunday night blues.
For most people, Sunday is no holiday at all. It may all come down to the same problem: We can't stop thinking about tomorrow. Even worse, we may develop some downright unhealthy coping strategies for that transition from weekends to Monday. Some might resist - staying up late, milking every minute of a fleeting Sunday in the form of mind-numbing distractions.
But why should Monday cast such a long and fearful shadow on our lives? Maybe it's because the counter is reset, and the weekend, or happiness, seems at its furthest point. If, like most of us, you have a tolerable job, but don't much like the whole idea of working, there are plenty of ways to make Mondays a little less stressful. Most importantly, don't leave any unsettled Friday business hanging over the weekend. So, clear the decks and tie up loose ends.
1. What do we know about weekend in paragraph2?| A．It is hard-earned. | B．It doesn't bring joy as expected. |
| C．It adds to people's anxiety. | D．It provides good time to relax. |
| A．To support his idea. | B．To clarify a question. |
| C．To show its popularity. | D．To provide more information. |
| A．Tolerant. | B．Conservative. |
| C．Practical. | D．Unwise. |
| A．Why Monday Takes a Bite Out of Sunday |
| B．Why People Are Stressed Out on Fridays |
| C．Why a Countdown to the Weekend Is Difficult |
| D．Why Monday Casts a Fearful Shadow on Our Lives |
