The goal is to find out whether kids using today's new technology can teach themselves to read in places where no schools or teachers

　　exist.

　　The

　　Massachusetts

　　Institute

　　of Technology researchers analyzing the project data say they're already amazed. “What I think has already happened is that the kids have already learned more than they would have in one year of kindergarten，” said Matt Keller, who runs the Ethiopia program.

　　The fastest learner—and the first to turn on one of the tablets—is 8­year­old Kelbesa Negusse. The device's camera was disabled to save memory, yet within weeks Kelbesa had figured out its workings and made the camera work. He called himself a lion, a marker of accomplishment in Ethiopia.

　　With his tablet, Kelbesa rearranged the letters HSROE into one of the many English animal names he knows. Then he spelled words on his own.

　　“Seven months ago he didn't know any English. That's unbelievable，” said Keller.

　　The project aims to get kids to a stage called “deep reading，”

　　where they can

　　read

　　to learn,

　　it won't be

　　in Amharic, Ethiopia's first language, but in English, which is widely seen as the ticket to higher paying jobs.

　　1．How does the Ethiopia program benefit the kids in the village?

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