By adopting a few simple techniques, parents who read to their children can greatly increase their children’’s language development. It is surprising but true. How parents talk to their children makes a big difference in the children’’s language development. If a parent encourages the child to actively respond to what the parent is reading, the child’’s language skills increase.
　　A study was done with 30 three-year-old children and their parents. Half of the children participated in the experimental study; the other half acted as the control group. In the experimental group, the parents were given a two-hour training session in which they were taught to ask open-ended questions rather than yes-or-no questions. For example, the parent should ask, "What is the doggie doing?" rather than "Is the doggie running away?" The parents in the experimental group were also instructed in how to help children find answers, how to suggest alternative possibilities and how to praise correct answers.
　　At the beginning of the study, the children did not differ in measures of language development, but at the end of one month, the children in the experimental group showed 5.5 months ahead of the control group on a test of verbal expression and vocabulary. Nine months later, the children in the experimental group still showed an advance of 6 months over the children in the control group.
　　6. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
　　A Children who talk a lot are more intelligent.
　　B Parents who listen to their children can teach them more.
　　C Active children should read more and be given more attention.
　　D Verbal ability can easily be developed with proper methods.
　　答案:D
　　本题考查的是考生对细节的把握。答案在段：“By adopting a few simple techniques，parents who read to their children can greatly increase their children’s language development．(父母给孩子读书的时候，通过采用一些简单的方法可以提高孩子的语言能力。)，因此可以得出这样的结论：“语言能力可以通过适当的方法来提高。”D正确
　　7. What does "it" in line 2 can most probably be replaced by?
　　A Parents increasing children’s language development_________.
　　B Reading techniques being simple
　　C Parents reading to children
　　D Children’s intelligence development
　　答案:A
　　本题考查的是考生对具体词汇及结构的把握。根据上文句和第三句中的children’s language development部分，可以看出it指父母能提高孩子的语言能力。代词的指代内容一般应从该句的上下句中找。
　　8. According to the author, which of the following questions is the best type to ask children about?
　　A Do you see the elephant?
　　B Is the elephant in the cage?
　　C What animals do you like?
　　D Shall we go to the zoo?
　　答案:C
　　本题考查的是考生对细节的把握。答案在第二段：“In the experimental group，the parents were given A two-hour training session in which they were taught to ask open-ended quest-tins rather than yes-or-no questions．(在进行实验的这一组里，给家长进行两小时的培训，让他们学会向孩子们提一些自由回答不能用是或不是回答的问题。)”再根据下文提问的举例可看出家长提出的的问题应该是：“What animals do you like?(你喜欢什么样的动物?)”C为正确答案。
　　9. The difference between the control group and the experimental group was_________.
　　A the training that parents received
　　B the age of the children
　　C tile books that were read
　　D the number of the children
　　答案:A
　　本题考查的是考生对细节的把握。答案在第二段“In the experimental group，the parents were given a two-hour training session”(在进行实验的这一组里，给家长进行两小时的培训)，文章的调查研究中把孩子及其家长分成两组，显然区别在于实验组里的家长接受了培训。
　　10. The best conclusion we can draw from the passage is that_________.
　　A parents should be trained to read to their children
　　B the more children read, the more intelligent they will become
　　C children’s language skills increase when they are required to respond actively
　　D children who read actively seem six months older
　　答案:C
　　本题是推断题，也是考查对文章细节的把握。答案在段后一句话。“If a parent encourages the child to actively respond to what the parent is reading，the child’s language skills increase．(如果家长鼓励孩子们对于家长给他们读的书的内容做出积极的反应，那么孩子们的语言能力就会提高。)”因此C为正确答案。

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