{{B}}Section D{{/B}}
Directions: You are going
to read a passage. Seven sentences have been removed from it. Choose from the
sentences A-H the one which fits each gap. There is one extra sentence which you
do not need to use.
Questions 72-78 are based on the following
passage.
Learning disabilities are very common. They
affect perhaps 10 percent of all children. Four times as many boys as girls have
learning disabilities.
Since about 1970, new research has helped
brain scientists understand these problems better. {{U}}(72) {{/U}} and
that they are caused by many different things. There is no longer any question
that all learning disabilities result from differences in the way the brain is
organized.
You cannot look at a child and tell if he has a
learning disability. There is no outward sign of the disorder. {{U}}(73)
{{/U}}.
In one study, researchers examined the brain of a
learning-disabled person who had died in an accident. They found two unusual
things. {{U}}(74) {{/U}}, which control language. These cells normally
are white. In the learning-disabled person, however, these cells were gray. The
researchers also found that many of the nerve cells were not in a line the way
they should have been. The nerve cells were mixed together.
The
study was carried out under the guidance of Norman Geschwind, {{U}}(75)
{{/U}}. Doctor Geschwind proposed that learning disabilities resulted mainly
from problems in the left side of the brain. He believed this side of the brain
failed to develop normally. Probably, he said, nerve cells there did not connect
as they should. {{U}}(76) {{/U}}.
Other researchers did
not examine brain tissue. Instead, {{U}}(77) {{/U}} and made a map of
the electrical signals. Frank Duffy experimented with this technique at
Children's Hospital Medical center in Boston. Doctor Duffy found large
differences in the brain activity of normal children and those with reading
problems. {{U}}(78) {{/U}}. Doctor Duffy said his research gives
evidence that reading disabilities involve damage to a wide area of the brain,
not just the left side.
Sentences:
A. an early expert on learning disabilities
B. Scientists
now know there are many different kinds of learning disabilities
C. So the brain was like an electrical device in which the wires were
crossed.
D. So some researchers began looking at the brain
itself to learn what might be wrong.
E. Scientists found that
the brain cells of a learning-disability person differ from those of a normal
person in size and arrangement.
F. The differences appeared
throughout the brain.
G. they measured the brain's electrical
activity
H. One involved cells in the left side of the
brain