1 . Have you ever found picking out the face of a friend in a group photo is sometimes hard, especially when everyone crowds together? In the same way, it can also be hard to read a passage of text when the letters are too close together. In fact, a new study shows that spacing the letters farther apart can help anyone read faster, and possibly understand more.
Dyslexia is a common reading disorder. Crowded text was especially difficult for people with dyslexia to read. So researchers wanted to see if increasing the spacing between letters would help.
Steven Stagg, a scientist, studies how people think and learn. His team recruited 59 students between 11 and 15 years old, thirty-two of whom had dyslexia. While the researchers recorded them, each student read two passages out loud. One passage was in its original format. In the other, there was an increase of 2.5 points in the spacing between the litters. The recording allowed the scientists to measure their reading speed and count any mistakes, such as skipped words.
People with dyslexia often employ aids to help them read, such as colored overlays (覆盖物). This time they are offered by the researchers. Those colored overlays didn’t help either group of kids. However, kids with dyslexia read the wider-spaced text 13 percent faster than the text with original spacing. These kids also made fewer mistakes. Students without dyslexia read faster, too, although only by 5 percent.
This is very good news. It means teachers and publishers can print material with extra spacing between litters. Readers with dyslexia won’t feel singled out by having to use special aids for reading. An organization called Readability Matters is working on these issues. The group is trying to get tech companies to make changes that should make reading easier.
Stagg says, “Some methods have shown mixed results, but Letter spacing seems to be the one thing that everyone is finding works.”
1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?| A．To make the article interesting. |
| B．To present a common problem. |
| C．To lead to the topic of the article. |
| D．To provide a new solution. |
| A．They may understand everything while reading wider-spaced text. |
| B．They may read faster than normal kids while reading wider- spaced text. |
| C．They may free from dyslexia after increasing letter spacing. |
| D．They may feel singled out while using colored layouts for reading. |
| A．Science study. | B．Campus life. |
| C．Star stories. | D．Business. |
| A．Readers Try to Improve Reading Speed |
| B．You Just Need More Space |
| C．Colored Overlays Are Helpful Aids |
| D．Dyslexia Affects Reading Speed |
