【正文】 relaxed and get pleasure, for dogs are loyal and loving listeners. Reading to a dog can help children build confidence, as children can read without being interrupted or being 76. ▲ on. ? Reading to a dog can also create a helpful balance, making children 77. ▲ to participate in literacy activities. Creating a virtuous circle ? Sharing a good book with a dog likely enables children to apply their reading skills positively and enjoyably, though more work remains to be done to 78. ▲ it. ? More case studies of reading to dogs indicate it might 79. ▲, both promoting children39。s heart is quite audible inside the womb and that the unborn baby has a welldeveloped hearing. It is interesting that fathers show less of this leftside bias (偏愛 ) than mothers，suggesting that the human female is better programmed than her partner for carrying a baby. Alternatively， she may unconsciously adjust her holding behavior to make baby fell more secure. Some new observations on our closest animals? relatives, the chimpanzees and gorillas, have revealed that they too show a strong bias for holding their babies on the left side. The precise figures were 84 percent for chimpanzees and 82 percent for gorillas, remarkably close to the human percentages. Recently a possible additional value in cradling babies on the left side has been suggested. It has been pointed out that, because, the two sides of the brain are concerned with different aspects of behavior, it is possible that the mother, in cradling the baby to her left, is showing the baby her “best side”. It is claimed that the emotions are expressed more strongly on the left side of the human face and that she therefore gives the baby a better chance to read her emotional mood changes as it gazes up at her. Furthermore, the mother?s left eye and ear are more tuned into emotional changes in her baby than her right eye and ear would be. So in addition to the baby?s seeing the more expressive parts of its mother, there is further advantage that the mother is herself more sensitive to the leftheld baby. This may sound farfetched, but just possibly, it could provide a slight extra benefit for those mothers displaying the strange onesided bias when cradling their infants. How does a bias occur? Do the mothers have an instinctive preference for it, or do they learn it by trial and error, unconsciously adjusting the position of the babies until the babies are calmer? The surprising answer is that it seems to be the baby not the mother who controls the bias. Observation of new born infants when they were only a few hours old revealed that they e into the world with a preprogrammed tendency to turn their head to the right. If the new born baby is gently held in a dead central position and then released, it naturally swings to the right far more often than to the left. This happens in nearly 70 percent of babies. This may be only a part of explanation, because the holding bias is 80 percent not 70 percent, but it adds a further intriguing chapter to the story. 61. How does the author develop Paragraph 1? A. By giving an example as a hook. B. By giving a general statement and narrowing it down. C. By asking a question and showing an answer. D. By explaining the importance of understanding a phenomenon. 62. The underlined word “audible” in Paragraph 3 means . A. soft B. clear C. weak D. distant 63. What?s the main idea of Paragraph 5? A. The left side of the human face expresses emotions more strongly than the right. B. A mother?s left eye and ear are more sensitive to the emotional changes in her baby. C. A baby may be more able to “read” its mother?s emotions than was previously believed. D. Holding her baby in the left arm may improve a mother?s emotional munication with it. 64. What is the author?s tone when he discusses why most mothers cradle their babies in the left arm? A. Cautious. B. 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Not is it surprising that reading creates a virtuous circle: the more you read the better you bee. But what may e as a surprise is that reading to dogs is gaining popularity as a way of addressing concerns about children?s reading. Underachievement (學業(yè)不良 ) in groups of children in the UK is. recognize in international studiesand successive governments have sought to address the issues in a range of ways. Reading to dogs, so far, has not been among them, but ifs time to look at the strategy more seriously. Many children naturally enjoy reading and need little encouragement, but if they are struggling, their confidence can quickly decrease—and with it, their motivation. This brings about the destructive cycle, and therefore reading ability fails to improve. So how can dogs help? A therapeutic (療法的 ) presence Reading to dogs is just that—encouraging children to read alongside a dog. The practice originat