阅读新视野06 Left Handedness
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Crazy Reading 6
Left-Handedness
Before you read
阅读思考
Answer the
following questions.
1
．
Are you left-
handed? How many left-handed people do you know?
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2
．
Do you know any
famous people who are left-handed?
3
．
What percentage
of people do you think are left-handed?
Target Vocabulary
目标词汇
Match each word
with the best meaning.
1
．
________
abnormal
2
．
________architect
3
．
________
attitude
4
．
_________
damage
5
．
_________mental
6
．
______ mild
7
．
__________occupat
ion
8
．
________
physical
9
．
__________ (to)
design
10
．
_______
vegetarian
Reading Passage
阅读文章
What
do
Leonardo
da
Vinci
,
Paul
McCartney,
and
Albert
Einstein
have
in
common?
They
were
all
left-handed, along with
other famous people including
Pablo
Picasso, Prince William, and Marilyn Monroe. In
fact, an estimated 11 percent lf
Americans and Europeans are left-handed.
Most
people
around
the
world
are
right-handed.
This
fact
also
seems
to
have
held
true
throughout
1977,scientists
studied works of art made at various times in
history starting with cave drawings from
15,000
B.C.
and
ending
with
paintings
from
the
1950s.
Most
of
the
people
shown
in
these
works
of
art
are
right-handed, so
scientists guessed that right-handedness has
always been common.
Many
researchers
claim
to
have
found
relationships
between
left-handedness
and
various
physical
and
mental
characteristics,
such
as
blond
hair,
blue
eyes,
vegetarianism,
and
sleep
difficulties.
Other
studies
have
found a higher-than-
normal level of left-handed people in certain
occupations, including professional baseball and
tennis players, architects, lawyers, as
well as prisoners. However, some of these
connections are very weak, and
others
haven
’
t been proven.
What makes a person become
right-handed rather than left-handed? As yet, no
one really knows fir sure,
a
．
to make a plan
for something
b
．
feelings or
ideas about someone or something
c
．
(verb) change
something for the worse; (noun) injury harm
d
．
related to the
body (rather than the mind)
e
．
related to the
mind
f
．
job
g
．
not serious;
gentle
h
．
a
trained professional who draws plans for buildings
i
．
someone who
never eats animals
j
．
unusual; not
normal
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