【填空题】

Until recently, dyslexia and other reading problems were
a mystery to most teachers and parents. As a result, too many
kids passed through school without master the printed page.          ______
Some were treated as mentally deficient; many were left
Functionally illiterate（文盲的）, unable to ever meet their
potential. But in the last several years, there’s been a
revolution in that we’ve learned about reading and dyslexia.       ______
Scientists are using a variety of new imaging techniques to
watch the brain at work. Their experiments have shown that
reading disorders are most likely the result of what is, in an effect,______
faulty wiring in the brain — not lazy, stupidity or a poor home      ______
environment. There’s also convincing evidence which dyslexia         ______
is largely inherited. It is now considered a chronic problem
for some kids, not just a “phase”. Scientists have also
discarded another old stereotype that almost all dyslexics are
boys. Studies indicate that many girls are affecting as well —      ______
and not getting help.
At same time, educational researchers have come up                    ______
with innovative teaching strategies for kids who are having
trouble learning to read. New screening tests are identifying
children at risk before they get discouraged by year of               ______
frustration and failure. And educators are trying to get the
message to parents that they should be on the alert for the
first signs of potential problems
It’s an urgent mission. Mass literacy is a relative ne             ______
social goal. A hundred years ago people didn’t need to be
good readers in order to earn a living. But in the Information
Age, no one can get by with knowing how to read well and              ______
Understand increasingly complex material.