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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（纪律）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.

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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（纪律）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.

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    I can never remember feeling good about myself． From the time I was a little child I always felt nobody liked me my parents, my brothers, my sister, nobody． I never had any friends, someone I could tell everything to． I tried to make friends, but nobody seemed to care for me．

    I also had a lot of problems with my height． Until grade nine I was a head taller than everybody else． My classmates always called me names like Pole or Long-legs． I felt the others were laughing at me．

    Things weren’t much better at home． The only way I could deal with my problems when I was a little child was to cry a lot． My mother didn’t quite understand my feelings and the crying annoyed her and made her nervous．

    Nobody in the family ever made an effort to understand me or even to talk to me． My family isn’t what you’d call warm． There’s never any expression of love． I’m sixteen and I can’t remember my mother or father ever kissing us．

    Things started getting really bad in high school． I changed schools． In the old school even though I didn’t have any friends I still had classmates to go out with; in the new school I had no one．

    At that age everybody’s in groups． I felt out of it． I tried, but I couldn’t get along with the others． I didn’t like them． I thought something was wrong with me． They thought I was strange．

1．Which of the following would be the best title（标题） for the passage?

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   A．My School Life．

   B．What’s Wrong With me．

   C．My Miserable（悲惨的）Childhood．

   D．What I think About Friends．

2．The writer’s classmates made fun of his ____ ．

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   A．head B．names C．grade D．height

3．Which of the following is true?

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   A．The writer did not think he had a sweet home．

   B．The writer was not able to remember his parents’kisses．

   C．The parents loved all their children but the writer．

   D．The parents often kept the house rather cold．

4．Things began to turn worse in high school after the writer ____ ．

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   A．lost all his old friends

   B．was thought to be strange

   C．found something wrong with himself

   D．moved to a new school

5．The writer felt lonely ____ ．

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   A．because he always lived alone

   B．since he changed school

   C．because he had no brother or sister

   D．because he had no one to talk to