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1 2 :  THE CAT SAT ON THE TAM Pre Reading Read the sentences under the title and paragraphs 1-3.
           
1 a.    What is usually done to help children with dyslexia?             helping them improve their reading.
          b.   In the writer's opinion, what should be done to help them?         dyslexia could be treated by training someone's ear rather than their eye.
(8 points)
2 .      Why hasn't natural selection prepared people for reading?
         Natural selection has equipped mankind with impressive spoken-language skills but it  never  had a chance to prepare people for reading. The brain of a child has evolved to rocess speech, not intricate written symbols that represent speech.
(6 points)
3 .      Complete the following chart to show two differences between SLI and dyslexia. (4 points)
4 .      What was Dr. Paula Tallal's hypothesis?
           that both syndromes    may   arise   from   a   simple hearing defect.
(6 points) Read paragraphs 4 – 8.
5.      Why does the writer discuss the way in which children learn to read the word 'cat'?
          (8 points)
6 .      In what way are people who are congenitally deaf and dyslexics similar?
 (6 points) 7.      Complete the following chart to show the hypothesis, method and findings of Michael Merzenich's experiment.
(5 points)
8 .         Why do dyslexics make mistakes in reading and writing according to paragraph 8?
            Becous the brains of dyslexics store an improper and unreliable representation of phoneme sounds. As a result, dyslexics make a lot of mistakes when mentally converting sounds to letter and letters to sounds.
(6 points) Read paragraphs 9 –
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9a. What is the general purpose of the Fast ForWord  game?                it's can improve recognition by stretching out and accentuating each sound.       b.   How does it do this?