Are you right-handed or left-handed? If you're left-handed, you should feel special. Only about 10 percent of the people in the world are left-handed.
A long time ago, people used to think that left-handed people were stupid or evil. Of course, today we know that isn't true. In fact, some scientists have done research that has shown that left-handed people might be smarter and more creative than right-handed people.
Animals also prefer to use one side of their body or the other. Like people, most animals are right-handed, but there is one animal that isn't: the polar bear. The people who live near polar bears say that they are all left-handed. But we probably shouldn't say polar bears are left-handed; they're left-pawed!
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(Marc Langer, staff writer)
你是右撇子還是左撇子?若是左撇子,應該要覺得自己很特別。全世界只有10% 的人是左撇子。
很久以前,人們認為左撇子是笨蛋或壞蛋,當然,如今我們知道這不是真的,事實上,部份科學家研究發現,左撇子可能比右撇子更聰明,更有創造力。
動物也會傾向用身體的某一側,而且和人類一樣,多數的動物是右撇子,不過有一種動物例外 -- 北極熊,北極熊棲息地附近的居民指出,所有的北極熊都是左撇子,不過,我們或許不應該說北極熊是「左撇子」,而是「左熊掌」。 (翻譯:鄭湘儀)
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