VOA慢速英语:How a Small Change in Teaching May Create Better Readers

pay attention to 关心;注意
例句：You should pay attention to your spelling.
你要注意拼写。

2. The children came from poor families and were below average intheir language skills.

come from 来自
例句：Ambient noise may come from any direction. 
外界噪声可以来自任意方向

3.  This put them at risk for reading problems later.

at risk 处于危险中
例句：The stylists also emphasize that everyone is at risk. 
发型设计师也强调每个人都有危险

4. For thirty weeks, the children took part in a program calledProject STAR, for Sit Together And Read.

take part in 参加
例句：Are you going to take part in the first experiment?
你们会参与首次实验吗?

5. She says one of the areas that interests researchers is knownas the "locus of learning."

known as 被称为
例句：The resultant defect is known as chromatic aberration. 
由此而产生的缺陷叫做色差。 

6. We think we have identified it pretty well in terms offostering some children’s knowledge about print.

in terms of 就...而论;在...方面
例句：In terms of money, he's quite rich, but not in terms of happiness.
就钱来说他很富有,但就幸福来说就不然了。