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The education of thousands of children with reading and sight trouble is being held back because of a lack of awareness of their legal rights, say campaigners.

They are calling for greater efforts to increase awareness of the rights of such children to have text books in design other than standard (标准) print. The campaign is being supported by five times Olympic gold medalist, Sir Steve Redgrave, who has reading trouble.

Pupils have the right to receive text in another way, and parents can take action under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) if they feel their children are being treated in a different way through a lack of support. But new research suggests 89 per cent of print disabled pupils and their parents are unaware of software which changes standard print into other substitutes like combined text and audio files (音频) which can be read or listened to.

Sir Steve has teamed up with software company Dolphin Computer Access to raise awareness of software turning tools. He said: "I recognize that schools have competing priorities (优先权) for their resources (资源), but I would like to see a much greater effort on the part of the government and schools to raise awareness among parents that these additional solutions exist and that their children have a right to use them."

Mike Foster, Dolphin's local MP in Worcester, is backing the campaign. "There is clearly an issue to solve concerning software for special needs. I'll be asking ministers what steps can be taken to improve the situation", he said.

1.What is the best title of this text?

A．Awareness of legal rights among parents      B．Campaign started for disabled children

C．Problems of disabled children              D．Steve — Olympic gold medalist

2.Which of the following can best replace the underlined word “backing” in Paragraph 5?

A．holding back       B．objecting to        C．supporting         D．controlling

3.Most print disabled pupils and their parents ________.

A．don’t know anything about such software

B．must cooperate with the software company

C．prefer combined text and audio files more

D．must take action to receive text in another way

4.Sir Steve Redgrave suggests that ________.

A．government and schools raise awareness of disabled children’s legal rights

B．parents take greater efforts to ask the government and schools for help

C．parents should take action to raise awareness of software turning tools

D．software company work with him to make the products

5.What Mike Foster said in Paragraph 5 means ________.

A．the ministers should be responsible for improving the situation

B．the software for special needs has got well along

C．the problem about software for special needs is to be dealt with

D．how to use the software is a big problem

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.A

4.A

5.C

【解析】

试题分析：本文是关于为那些有阅读障碍的残疾人而进行的争取权利的活动的描述。

1.B 主旨大意题。根据文章第一段The education of thousands of children with reading and sight trouble is being held back because of a lack of awareness of their legal rights, say campaigners.可知本文是关于为那些有阅读障碍的残疾人而进行的争取权利的活动。故B正确。

2.C 推理题。根据文章最后一段Mike Foster, Dolphin's local MP in Worcester, is backing the campaign. "There is clearly an issue to solve concerning software for special needs. I'll be asking ministers what steps can be taken to improve the situation", he said.可知Mike Foster对于这项活动是持支持的态度的，故该词是指C项。

3.A 细节题。根据文章第三段最后3行But new research suggests 89 per cent of print disabled pupils and their parents are unaware of software which changes standard print into other substitutes like combined text and audio files (音频) which can be read or listened to.可知大部分人都知道这种软件。故A正确。

4.A 细节题。根据文章第四段Sir Steve has teamed up with software company Dolphin Computer Access to raise awareness of software turning tools. He said: "I recognize that schools have competing priorities (优先权) for their resources (资源), but I would like to see a much greater effort on the part of the government and schools to raise awareness among parents that these additional solutions exist and that their children have a right to use them."可知他们的目的就是为了残疾人这方面的意识。故A正确。

5.C 推理题。根据最后一段"There is clearly an issue to solve concerning software for special needs. I'll be asking ministers what steps can be taken to improve the situation"可知这个问题已经引起了人们的关注，所以很可能会被处理。故C正确。

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点评：本文是关于为那些有阅读障碍的残疾人而进行的争取权利的活动的描述。本文以细节题的考查为主，细节题是针对文中某个细节、某句话或某部分具体内容设置问题，正确答案的根据一定可以在原文中找到，即原文的改写往往成为正确选项。通常细节题的正确选项有以下特征：对原文句子中的关键词进行替换。把原文中的一些词换成意义相近的词，成为正确选项。词性或者语态的变化。把原文中的一些词变换一下词性，或者改变原文句子的语态，给考生制造障碍。语言简化。把原文中的复杂语言现象进行简化，成为正确答案。正话反说。把原文中的意思反过来表达而成为正确选项(适用于寻找错误选项的题目)。