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阅读下文,回答题Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
A lot of people instinctively believe--without really knowing-that poor readers are not especially smart.
A new study by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine and the University of California at Davis explains how it is that(36)bright and accomplished people can have great difficulty reading.
What gets in the way of many people’s ability to read is word blindness. It is all unexpected difficulty in reading in people who have the intelligence and motivation thought to be necessary to be(37) readers.
The brains of people with word blindness have difficulty taking images that they see or hear and turning it into(38)language,explained researcher Sally E. Shaywitz. This means that someone with word blindness not only has (39)reading but may also have difficulty speaking quickly. Typical readers can (40)recognize words after seeing them a few times;those with word blindness don’t.
The new study(41)evidence for the first time showing that the (42)between IQ and reading over time is not the same for readers with word blindness as it is for typical readers.
In people without word blindness,intelligence and reading do in fact connect and can (43)each other over time. But in those with word blindness,IQ and reading are not (44)over time and do not have an effect on each other..
“People expect that if you are a very good reader you must be very smart and if you don’t read well you must not be so smart,”said Shaywitz.
“Word blindness is a paradox(矛盾)because it violates that(45),”she said. “You can NOT be a great reader and be exceptionally smart.’’
A. conclusion
B. fluent
C. understandable
D. exceedingly
E. automatically
F. provides
G. influence
H. trouble
I. linked
J. proves
K. considerate
L. selectively
M. assumption
N relationship
O. contacted
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