Part Reading Comprehension

Passage one

By adopting a few simple techniques，parents who read to their children can greatly increasetheir 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 tw0—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 aIso 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.

11.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A.Children who talk a lot are more intelligent.

B.Parents wh0 1isten 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.

12.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.

13.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?

14.The difference between the control group and the experimental group was __________ .

A.the training that parents received B.the age of the children

C.the books that were read D.the number of the children

15.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 mont.hs old

Passage Two

Faces，like fingerprints，are unique.Did you ever wonder how it is possible for US to recognize people?Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different from another.Yet a very young child—or even an animal。such as a pigeon--can learn to recognize faces，we all take this ability for granted.

We also tell people apafl by how they behave.When we talk about someone’s personality，we mean the ways in which he or she acts，speaks，thinks and feels that make that individual different from others.

Like the human face.human personality is very complex.But describing someone’s personality in words is somewhat easier than describing his face.If you were asked to describe what is“a nice face”looked like.you probably would have a difficult time doing S0.But if you were asked to describe a“nice person”.you might begin to think about someone who was kind，considerate， friendly，warm，and SO forth.

There are many words to describe how a person thinks，feels，acts.Gordon Allport，an American psychologist，found nearly 18，000 English words characterizing differences in people’s behavior.And many of US use this information as a basis for describin9，or typin9，his personality.

Bookworms，conservatives，military types--people are described with such terms. People have always tried t0“type”each other.Actors in early Greek drama wore masks to show the audience whether they played the villain’S(坏人)or the her0’s role.In fact the words‘person’’and“personality”come from the Latin persona，meanin9“mask”.Today，most television and movie actors do not wear masks.But we can easily tell the good guy from the bad guy because the two types differ in appearances as well as in actions.

16.By using the example of fingerprints，the author tells US that __________ .

A.people can learn to recognize faces

B.people have different personalities

C.people have difficulty in describing the features of fingerprints

D.people differ from each other in facial features

17.According to this passage，some animals have the gift of __________ .

A.telling people apart by how they behave

B.typing each other

C.telling good people from bad people

D.recognizing human faces

1 8.Who most probably knows best how to describe people’S personality?

A.The ancient Greek audience. B.The movie actors.

C.Psychologists.D.The modelTl TV audience.

1 9.According to the passage，it is possible for US to tell one type of person from another because __________ .

A.people differ in their behavioral and physical characteristics

B.human fingerprints provide unique information

C.people’S behavior can be easily described in words

D.human faces have complex features

20.Which of the following is the major point of the passage?

A.Why it is necessary to identify people’S personality?

B.Why it is possible to describe people?

C.How to get to know people?

D.How best to recognize people?

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