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[单项选择]Reading to dogs is an unusual way to help children improve their literacy skills(读写能力).With their shining brown eyes, wagging tails, and unconditional love, dogs can provide the nonjudgmental listeners needed for a beginning reader to gain confidence, according to Intermountain Therapy Animals (ITA) in Salt Lake City. The group says it is the first program in the country to use dogs to help develop literacy in children, with the introduction of Reading Education Association Dogs (READ).
The Salt Lake City Public Library is sold on the idea. "Literacy specialists admit that children who read below the level of their fellow pupils are often afraid of reading aloud in a group, often have lower self-respect, and regard reading as a headache, " said Lisa Myron, manager of the children’s department.
Last November the two groups started "Dog Day Afternoon" in the children’s department of the main library. About 25 children attended each of the four Saturday-afternoon classes,
A. Children’s reading difficulties.
B. Advantages of raising dogs.
C. Service in a public library.
D. A special" reading program.
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Is the town Cindy lived in unusual in any way
[单项选择]The dogs that help in criminal investigations are trained at a school called the Military Dog Studies branch of the US Air Force in Lackland, Texas. The dogs to be trained are selected by an air force team. This team visits large cities across the country to buy dogs. They may buy dogs from private citizens for up to $ 750 each. Some citizens freely give their dogs. The dogs selected must be healthy, brave and aggressive. They must be able to fight back if they are attacked. The dogs chosen are between the ages of one and three. They are given a medical examination when they arrive at the school. Their physical examination includes X - rays and heart tests. The trainee dogs undergo the first stage of training when they arrive in Lackland. This is an 11 - week course for patrol duty. After this course, the best dogs are selected to go on another 9 - week course. They learn drug - sniffing or bomb - sniffing. After this course, the dogs are ready for their jobs in the cities or off air f
A. after an 11 - week course.
B. after a 9 - week course.
C. after they are given medical examinations
D. after they have grown large enoug
[填空题]Being taught to train dogs in a kind way, troubled boys get love from the animal and also save______.
[填空题]Dogs are able to help human beings by taking care of children.
[单项选择]A. Bringing dogs to work can help reduce stresses.
B. Bringing dogs to work would cause chaos.
C. Bringing dogs to work is not permitted.
D. Bringing dogs to work needs to pay.
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Why should we bother reading a book All children say this occasionally. Many among our educated classes are also asking why, in a world of accelerating technology, increasing time poverty and diminishing attention spans, should they invest precious time sinking into a good book
The beginnings of an answer lie in the same technology that has posed the question. Psychologists from Washington University used brain scans to see what happens inside our heads when we read stories. They found that "readers mentally simulate each new situation encountered in a narrative". The brain weaves these situations together with experiences from its own life to create a new mental synthesis. Reading a book leaves us with new neural pathways.
The discovery that our brains are physically changed by the experience of reading is something many of us will understand instinctively, as we thi
A. lay solid foundation for all kinds of formal education
B. equip teenagers with basic skills to survive in knowledge economy
C. enrich the emotional experiences of children’s inner world
D. provide a pastime for children in stressful competition
