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 bined text and audio files (音频) which can be read or listened to.
Sir Steve has teamed up with software pany Dolphin Computer Access to raise awareness of software turning tools. He said: I recognize that schools have peting 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.
【小题1】What is the best title of this text?A．Awareness of legal rights among parentsB．Campaign started for disabled childrenC．Problems of disabled childrenD．Steve — Olympic gold medalist【小题2】Which of the following can best replace the underlined word “backing” in Paragraph 5?A．holding backB．objecting toC．supportingD．controlling【小题3】Most print disabled pupils and their parents .A．don’t know anything about such softwareB．must cooperate with the software panyC．prefer bined text and audio files moreD．must take action to receive text in another way【小题4】Sir Steve Redgrave suggests that .A．government and schools raise awareness of disabled children’s legal rightsB．parents take greater efforts to ask the government and schools for helpC．parents should take action to raise awareness of software turning toolsD．software pany work with him to make the products【小题5】What Mike Foster said in Paragraph 5 means .A．the ministers should be responsible for improving the situationB．the software for special needs has got well alongC．the problem about software for special needs is to be dealt withD．how to use the software is a big problemB
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(答案→)B
解析：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。
【小题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。
【小题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。
【小题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 bined 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。
【小题4】A 细节题。根据文章第四段Sir Steve has teamed up with software pany Dolphin Computer Access to raise awareness of software turning tools. He said: I recognize that schools have peting 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。
【小题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。