At the same time, parents in our district are increasingly expressing the desire to see improvements in their childrens reading abilities.

同时，我们区的家长对于看到他们的孩子阅读能力提高的愿望越来越强烈。

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"The gulf between our 15-year-olds' reading abilities and those from other countries is stark -a gap that starts to open in the very first few years of a child's education", said Mr Gibb.

吉布先生指出，“我国的15岁少年阅读能力与其他国家的差距是非常明显的——这种差距在儿童教育的早期就开始出现了。”

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Children will be able to choose books that match their interests and reading abilities.

孩子们可以选择适合他们兴趣和能力的相关书籍来阅读。

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Getting less than that was linked to lower abilities in language, reading and early math skills.

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The reading abilities of German 15-year-olds, according to the PISA studies published by the OECD, are below the average for rich countries.

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Now, Michael Merzenich, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, and his colleagues have tested this idea by giving extensive hearing tests to grown-ups with a wide range of reading abilities.

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But this is only one percentage point higher than in 2000, and on average boys' reading and writing abilities still fall consistently below girls'.

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