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　At least one out of every five elementary school students in the US has trouble learning t0 read，even when the students are good at other subjects．____(46)
　Researchers from Yale University,US,studied a group of children from New York and Connecticut State．As part of the study，37 struggling readers received special tutoring
　Every day,instructors worked with them on recognizing how written letters represent units of sound called phonemes(音素)____(47)
　By the end of the school year，these children could read faster than before．They also made fewer mistakes，and understood more of what they read than they could earlier in the year,
　As part of their study，the researchers used a special machine to take action photos of the students’brains．___(48)This is the same part of the brain that becomes active when good readers read．This activated brain area appears to include a structure that helps people recognize familiar written words quickly．In lower level readers，this structure remains inactive．
　A year later,the brain structure was still working hard in the students who had gone through the special tutoring，and they continued to do well in reading tests．___(49) However，some researchers still doubt the study_____(50)
A．Many adults are interested in matching sounds with letters
B．The students also practiced reading aloud and spelling
C．The biggest challenge for many of these kids，scientists say,is matching sounds with letters．
D．Another group in the study who went through a more traditional reading program didn’t show the same progress．
E．The pictures showed all increase in activity in the back of the brain on the left side
F．They believe that reading without making any noise or linking words to sounds is more efficient．
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Mall ofFew Words
　　Everyone chases success，but not all of us want to be famous South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is__(51)for keeping himself to himself When the 63-year-old was named the 2003 Nobel Prize winner for literature earlier this month， reporters were warned that they would find him“particularly difficult to___(52)”．
　　Coetzee lives in Australia but spends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago He seemed___(53)by the news that he won the US$1 3 million prize “It came as a complete surprise．1 wasn’t even aware they were due to make the announcement，he said．
　　His___(54)of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzee will attend Pnize-giving in Stockholm，Sweden，on December 10. But despite being described as____(55)to track down，the critics agree that his Writing is easy to get to know
　　Born in Cape Town，South Africa，to all English-speaking family，Coetzee___(56)his breakthrough in 1980 with the novel“Waiting for the Barbarians(野蛮人)”He____(57) his place among the world’s leading writers with two Booker prize victories，Britain’s highest honour for novels He first_____(58)in l983forthe“Life and Times of Michael k”and his second title came in 1999 for“Disgrace”
　　A major theme in his work is South Africa’s former apartheid(种族隔离)system，which divided whites from blacks____(59)with the problems of violence，crime and racial division that still exist in the country his books have enabled ordinary people to understand apartheid____(60)within.
　　“I have always been more interested in the past than the future，”he said in a rare