The birth Jacinda Ardern's baby is first and foremost a time of great happiness for Jacinda and her partner,Clarke Gayford.Their daughter is very much a wanted child for these happy parents.But for public in New Zealand and beyon the new arrival in our country's first family also has considerable significance.Ardern becomes only the second serving prime minister in history to give birth.As well,she is not married to her partner.Conventional wisdom may have said that this combination of factors would not have been helpful to a political career at the highest level.Fortunately,that has proved to be wrong.Ardern is a remarkable woman who crashes through glass ceilings with apparent ease.She became Leader of the New Zealand Labour party and of the opposition a mere seven weeks before last September's general election.In that short time,she took her party out of a near death zone of low polling to a highly credible election result,and then through the successful coalition negotiations which re-sulted in her becoming prime minister in October at the age of 37.Ardern's pregnancy came as a surprise to her and Gayford,but they took it in their stride.arrangements were made for Ardern to work until very close to the birth,and then for the deputy prime minister to act in her place while she takes some six weeks maternity leave.After that,Gayford takes over as primary carer for the foreseeable future.For young women,the example Arderm is setting is an affirmation that hey too can expect to have that choice.For young men,Gayford being the full time carer of a baby sends a powerful message that they too can exercise that choice.ony ni New Zealand is known for being a socially progressive country.Arden is its third female prime minister;it has had three female governor generals;and 125 years ago,it became the first countr where women won the right to vote Now it is breaking new ground with a prime minister giving birth and her partner becoming a stay-at-home father.But in the context of New Zealand Is Is evolutionary,not revolutionary Overwhelmingly positive interest across the political spectrum is being taken in the addition to the first What lessons are there in this for our world?In my view,New Zealand is showing that no doors are closed to women,that having a baby while being prime minister can be managed,and that it's acceptable for male partners to be full-time carers.This is very positive role modelling for the empowerment of women and for gender equality.In a world where there are still glass ceilings to be smashed and where many countries continue to have laws,policies,and practices that discriminate against women,the message from New Zealand is one of hope-that women can break through all barriers and do it in their own way as Arden has done I hope that New Zealand will continue to be a leader in the full inclusion of women in all spheres of its society-and i expect it will beThe description of Ardem's process of becoming prime minister（Para.3）aims to indicate thatA.Ardern is still a very successful female leader in New ZealandB.her personality guarantees the smooth development of her careerC.being an unmarried mother hasn't affected her political careerD.she fought against barriers hindering women's career development
The birth Jacinda Ardern's baby is first and foremost a time of great happiness for Jacinda and her partner,Clarke Gayford.Their daughter is very much a wanted child for these happy parents.But for public in New Zealand and beyon the new arrival in our country's first family also has considerable significance.Ardern becomes only the second serving prime minister in history to give birth.As well,she is not married to her partner.Conventional wisdom may have said that this combination of factors would not have been helpful to a political career at the highest level.Fortunately,that has proved to be wrong.Ardern is a remarkable woman who crashes through glass ceilings with apparent ease.She became Leader of the New Zealand Labour party and of the opposition a mere seven weeks before last September's general election.In that short time,she took her party out of a near death zone of low polling to a highly credible election result,and then through the successful coalition negotiations which re-sulted in her becoming prime minister in October at the age of 37.Ardern's pregnancy came as a surprise to her and Gayford,but they took it in their stride.arrangements were made for Ardern to work until very close to the birth,and then for the deputy prime minister to act in her place while she takes some six weeks maternity leave.After that,Gayford takes over as primary carer for the foreseeable future.For young women,the example Arderm is setting is an affirmation that hey too can expect to have that choice.For young men,Gayford being the full time carer of a baby sends a powerful message that they too can exercise that choice.ony ni New Zealand is known for being a socially progressive country.Arden is its third female prime minister;it has had three female governor generals;and 125 years ago,it became the first countr where women won the right to vote Now it is breaking new ground with a prime minister giving birth and her partner becoming a stay-at-home father.But in the context of New Zealand Is Is evolutionary,not revolutionary Overwhelmingly positive interest across the political spectrum is being taken in the addition to the first What lessons are there in this for our world?In my view,New Zealand is showing that no doors are closed to women,that having a baby while being prime minister can be managed,and that it's acceptable for male partners to be full-time carers.This is very positive role modelling for the empowerment of women and for gender equality.In a world where there are still glass ceilings to be smashed and where many countries continue to have laws,policies,and practices that discriminate against women,the message from New Zealand is one of hope-that women can break through all barriers and do it in their own way as Arden has done I hope that New Zealand will continue to be a leader in the full inclusion of women in all spheres of its society-and i expect it will be
The description of Ardem's process of becoming prime minister（Para.3）aims to indicate that
The description of Ardem's process of becoming prime minister（Para.3）aims to indicate that
A.Ardern is still a very successful female leader in New Zealand
B.her personality guarantees the smooth development of her career
C.being an unmarried mother hasn't affected her political career
D.she fought against barriers hindering women's career development
B.her personality guarantees the smooth development of her career
C.being an unmarried mother hasn't affected her political career
D.she fought against barriers hindering women's career development
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解析：例证题。根据题干信息可以定位到第三段。但是这段都在说这个人特别成功,所以得看第二段!例证题是两步到位!线索句就是Conventional wisdom may have said that this combination of factors would not have been helpful to a political career at the highest level..Fortunately,that has proved to be wrong.（这个句式很像2009年考研英语真题第三篇文章第一段的句式。）
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Anna is our only daughter. My wife and I have two sons, and Anna is the youngest in the family, but she's twenty-five now. Anna was not well when she was little. It was a very worrying time and she stayed at home a lot. She was seen first by the local doctors, and then she was sent to a specialist in Cardiff where she was diagnosed as diabetic. It was my wife who mainly took care of her then. I am not very good at looking after little children. I suppose I am a bit traditional in that way. But when she grew up a bit, we spent a lot of time together. We loved walking and talking and discussing life. We still love it today. We get on very well. Although she looks like me (tall, dark hair, dark eyes and dark skin), she takes after her mother: she is artistic and musical, and like her mother she's attractive. She loves looking after animals - she has two dogs, three cats and a goat. She lives in a little house in the country. I like animals too. I like riding and hunting, but Anna hates hunting. She thinks it's cruel. We discuss it a lot. She is quiet and a bit shy with strangers. I am more outgoing and I love meeting new people. But she's not boring - actually, she's very funny. She always has lots of stories of her life in the country. She's an art and music teacher in a little village school. She is very good-natured. Anna says we brought her up well, and she's going to bring her children up to be honest and loyal. But I think she was easy to bring up. I don't remember ever telling her off.1.According to the passage, when Anna was a child, she ().2. It can be inferred from the passage the author thinks looking after little children is ().3. What does 'take after' mean in the first sentence of Para. 2?4. My daughter and I have little in common in terms of ().5. From the passage, we can see the author's description of his daughter is ().(1).A、got an illnessB、was very queerC、didn't look like the author(2).A、his advantageB、mainly a woman's responsibilityC、really enjoyable(3).A、look afterB、be different fromC、look like(4).A、loving walking and talkingB、characterC、loving animals(5).A、affectionateB、humorousC、critical
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The Apgar Test The baby was born at 3:36 p. m. At 3:37, she scored 4 out of 10 on her first test. At 3:41, she scored 8 out of 10. The doctor was glad.Another baby, born at 8:24 p. m., scored 3 out of 10 on his first test. He scored 4 out of 10 on his second test. He took another test at 8:34 and scored 5. ___1___ He called for help1. These newborn babies took a test called the Apgar test. This test helps doctors diagnose problems. ___2___ Most babies take two tests. The first is at 1 minute after birth, and the second is at 5 minutes after birth. If a baby’s score at 5 minutes is less than 6, the baby takes another test at 10 minutes after birth. The Apgar test is not an intelligence test. It’s a test that shows a baby’s health right after it is born. The Apgar test measures things such as a baby’s color, heart rate, and breathing. The test has five parts, and the score for each part can be 0, 1, or 2. ___3___A doctor named Virginia Apgar developed the test. Apgar went to medical school at Columbia University in New York City in 1929. She faced many challenges because she was the first woman in the program. However, she was one of the best students in her class. After medical school, she started treating patients2.Apgar also became a researcher in anesthesiology, a new topic in medicine at the time3. During her studies, she learned how to give patients anesthesia. ___4___ In the 1940s, many women started to have anesthesia when they gave birth. Apgar had a question: How does anesthesia affect newborn babies? In 1949, when Apgar was a professor at Columbia’s medical school, she created her simple test. She wrote a paper about her methods in 1953. Soon after, people started using the Apgar test around the world. In her work, Apgar saw that many newborns had problems. She wanted to help these babies survive. She stopped practicing medicine in 1959, and she went back to school to get a master’s degree in public health. ___5___Today, the Apgar test is still used all over the world. Newborn babies don’t know it, but Virginia Apgar is a very important person in the first few minutes of their lives.词汇： diagnose /'dai gn uz/ vt. & vi. 诊断（疾病）anesthesiology /, nis,θizi’ l d i/ n. 麻醉学anesthesia /, nis'θizi / n. 麻醉 注释：1. called for help：需要帮助，求救。call for：需要，要求，提倡；来找（某人），来取（某物）。2. she started treating patients：她开始治疗病人。treat sb.有三种意思，分别是“对待某人”“治疗某人”和“款待某人”。treat作“治疗”讲，是普通用语的治疗，意义广泛，cure多用于疾病方面，heal多用于创伤或外伤方面。3. at the time：当时，在那时。同义短语有at that point, at that time, on the occasion。练习：A Doctors add the scores together for the total Apgar score.B She spent the rest of her life doing research and raising money to help newborn babies.C A score of 10 is uncommon.D The doctor was worried.E They decide if a baby is normal or needs special care.F Anesthesia is a procedure that makes patients lose consciousness, so they do not feel any pain during surgery.
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共用题干第二篇 Brain-dead Mother Dies after Giving BirthA brain-dead woman who was kept alive for three months so she could deliver the child she was carrying was removed from life support on Wednesday and died,a day after giving birth."This is obviously a bittersweet time for our family,"Justin Torres,the woman's brother-in-law,said in a statement.Susan Torres,a cancer-stricken,26-year-old researcher at the National Institutes of Health,suffered a stroke in May after the melanoma（黑瘤）spread to her brain.Her family decided to keep her alive to give her foetus（胎儿）a chance. It became a race between the foetus' development and the cancer that was destroying the woman's body.Doctors said that Torres' health was getting worse and that the risk of harm to the foetus finally outweighed the benefits of extending the pregnancy.Torres gave birth to a daughter by Caesarean section（剖腹产手术）on Tuesday at Virginia Hospital Center.The baby was two months premature and weighed about a kilogram.She was in the newborn intensive care unit.Dr. Donna Tilden-Archer , the hospital's director of neonatology（新生儿学）,described the child as"very vigorous".She said the baby had responded when she received stimulation,indicating she was healthy.Doctors removed Torres from life support early Wednesday with the consent of her husband , Jason Torres , after she received the final sacrament（圣礼）of the Roman Catholic Church."We thank all of those who prayed and provided support for Susan,the baby and our family,"Jason Torres said in a statement."We especially thank God for giving us little Susan.My wife's courage will never be forgotten."English-language medical}iterature contains at least 11 cases since 1 979 of irreversibly brain-damaged women whose lives were prolonged for the benefit of the developing foetus,according to the University of Connecticut Health Center.Dr.Christopher McManus,who coordinated care for Susan Torres,put the infant's chances of developing cancer at less than 25 per cent.He said 19 women who have had the same aggressive form of melanoma as Torres have given birth,and five of their babies became ill with the disease. Susan Torres had been put on life support soA: she could live comfortably. B: she could see her baby.C:she could die without pain. D: she could deliver her baby.
共用题干第二篇 Brain-dead Mother Dies after Giving BirthA brain-dead woman who was kept alive for three months so she could deliver the child she was carrying was removed from life support on Wednesday and died,a day after giving birth."This is obviously a bittersweet time for our family,"Justin Torres,the woman's brother-in-law,said in a statement.Susan Torres,a cancer-stricken,26-year-old researcher at the National Institutes of Health,suffered a stroke in May after the melanoma（黑瘤）spread to her brain.Her family decided to keep her alive to give her foetus（胎儿）a chance. It became a race between the foetus' development and the cancer that was destroying the woman's body.Doctors said that Torres' health was getting worse and that the risk of harm to the foetus finally outweighed the benefits of extending the pregnancy.Torres gave birth to a daughter by Caesarean section（剖腹产手术）on Tuesday at Virginia Hospital Center.The baby was two months premature and weighed about a kilogram.She was in the newborn intensive care unit.Dr. Donna Tilden-Archer , the hospital's director of neonatology（新生儿学）,described the child as"very vigorous".She said the baby had responded when she received stimulation,indicating she was healthy.Doctors removed Torres from life support early Wednesday with the consent of her husband , Jason Torres , after she received the final sacrament（圣礼）of the Roman Catholic Church."We thank all of those who prayed and provided support for Susan,the baby and our family,"Jason Torres said in a statement."We especially thank God for giving us little Susan.My wife's courage will never be forgotten."English-language medical}iterature contains at least 11 cases since 1 979 of irreversibly brain-damaged women whose lives were prolonged for the benefit of the developing foetus,according to the University of Connecticut Health Center.Dr.Christopher McManus,who coordinated care for Susan Torres,put the infant's chances of developing cancer at less than 25 per cent.He said 19 women who have had the same aggressive form of melanoma as Torres have given birth,and five of their babies became ill with the disease.The pregnancy was stopped becauseA: the foetus was found seriously ill.B:the risks outweighed the benefits.C: there was no hope to rescue the foetus.D: the Torres family couldn't afford the expenses any more.
共用题干第二篇 Brain-dead Mother Dies after Giving BirthA brain-dead woman who was kept alive for three months so she could deliver the child she was carrying was removed from life support on Wednesday and died,a day after giving birth."This is obviously a bittersweet time for our family,"Justin Torres,the woman's brother-in-law,said in a statement.Susan Torres,a cancer-stricken,26-year-old researcher at the National Institutes of Health,suffered a stroke in May after the melanoma（黑瘤）spread to her brain.Her family decided to keep her alive to give her foetus（胎儿）a chance. It became a race between the foetus' development and the cancer that was destroying the woman's body.Doctors said that Torres' health was getting worse and that the risk of harm to the foetus finally outweighed the benefits of extending the pregnancy.Torres gave birth to a daughter by Caesarean section（剖腹产手术）on Tuesday at Virginia Hospital Center.The baby was two months premature and weighed about a kilogram.She was in the newborn intensive care unit.Dr. Donna Tilden-Archer , the hospital's director of neonatology（新生儿学）,described the child as"very vigorous".She said the baby had responded when she received stimulation,indicating she was healthy.Doctors removed Torres from life support early Wednesday with the consent of her husband , Jason Torres , after she received the final sacrament（圣礼）of the Roman Catholic Church."We thank all of those who prayed and provided support for Susan,the baby and our family,"Jason Torres said in a statement."We especially thank God for giving us little Susan.My wife's courage will never be forgotten."English-language medical}iterature contains at least 11 cases since 1 979 of irreversibly brain-damaged women whose lives were prolonged for the benefit of the developing foetus,according to the University of Connecticut Health Center.Dr.Christopher McManus,who coordinated care for Susan Torres,put the infant's chances of developing cancer at less than 25 per cent.He said 19 women who have had the same aggressive form of melanoma as Torres have given birth,and five of their babies became ill with the disease. Susan Torres died soon afterA:she suffered a stroke. B: she became brain-dead.C: she was diagnosed with cancer. D:she gave birth to a baby.
共用题干第二篇 Brain-dead Mother Dies after Giving BirthA brain-dead woman who was kept alive for three months so she could deliver the child she was carrying was removed from life support on Wednesday and died,a day after giving birth."This is obviously a bittersweet time for our family,"Justin Torres,the woman's brother-in-law,said in a statement.Susan Torres,a cancer-stricken,26-year-old researcher at the National Institutes of Health,suffered a stroke in May after the melanoma（黑瘤）spread to her brain.Her family decided to keep her alive to give her foetus（胎儿）a chance. It became a race between the foetus' development and the cancer that was destroying the woman's body.Doctors said that Torres' health was getting worse and that the risk of harm to the foetus finally outweighed the benefits of extending the pregnancy.Torres gave birth to a daughter by Caesarean section（剖腹产手术）on Tuesday at Virginia Hospital Center.The baby was two months premature and weighed about a kilogram.She was in the newborn intensive care unit.Dr. Donna Tilden-Archer , the hospital's director of neonatology（新生儿学）,described the child as"very vigorous".She said the baby had responded when she received stimulation,indicating she was healthy.Doctors removed Torres from life support early Wednesday with the consent of her husband , Jason Torres , after she received the final sacrament（圣礼）of the Roman Catholic Church."We thank all of those who prayed and provided support for Susan,the baby and our family,"Jason Torres said in a statement."We especially thank God for giving us little Susan.My wife's courage will never be forgotten."English-language medical}iterature contains at least 11 cases since 1 979 of irreversibly brain-damaged women whose lives were prolonged for the benefit of the developing foetus,according to the University of Connecticut Health Center.Dr.Christopher McManus,who coordinated care for Susan Torres,put the infant's chances of developing cancer at less than 25 per cent.He said 19 women who have had the same aggressive form of melanoma as Torres have given birth,and five of their babies became ill with the disease. The baby's chances of developing cancer were said to beA: about 11 per cent. B:around 19 per cent.C:less than 25 per cent. D:close to 5 per cent.
共用题干第二篇 Brain-dead Mother Dies after Giving BirthA brain-dead woman who was kept alive for three months so she could deliver the child she was carrying was removed from life support on Wednesday and died,a day after giving birth."This is obviously a bittersweet time for our family,"Justin Torres,the woman's brother-in-law,said in a statement.Susan Torres,a cancer-stricken,26-year-old researcher at the National Institutes of Health,suffered a stroke in May after the melanoma（黑瘤）spread to her brain.Her family decided to keep her alive to give her foetus（胎儿）a chance. It became a race between the foetus' development and the cancer that was destroying the woman's body.Doctors said that Torres' health was getting worse and that the risk of harm to the foetus finally outweighed the benefits of extending the pregnancy.Torres gave birth to a daughter by Caesarean section（剖腹产手术）on Tuesday at Virginia Hospital Center.The baby was two months premature and weighed about a kilogram.She was in the newborn intensive care unit.Dr. Donna Tilden-Archer , the hospital's director of neonatology（新生儿学）,described the child as"very vigorous".She said the baby had responded when she received stimulation,indicating she was healthy.Doctors removed Torres from life support early Wednesday with the consent of her husband , Jason Torres , after she received the final sacrament（圣礼）of the Roman Catholic Church."We thank all of those who prayed and provided support for Susan,the baby and our family,"Jason Torres said in a statement."We especially thank God for giving us little Susan.My wife's courage will never be forgotten."English-language medical}iterature contains at least 11 cases since 1 979 of irreversibly brain-damaged women whose lives were prolonged for the benefit of the developing foetus,according to the University of Connecticut Health Center.Dr.Christopher McManus,who coordinated care for Susan Torres,put the infant's chances of developing cancer at less than 25 per cent.He said 19 women who have had the same aggressive form of melanoma as Torres have given birth,and five of their babies became ill with the disease. Which is NOT true of the baby?A:She was born of a dead mother. B:She was two months premature.C: She weighed about a kilogram. D: She was healthy.
Scientists who study the brain have found out a great deal about how we learn.They have_____21_____that babies learn much more from the sights and sounds around them than we_____22_____before.You can?help your baby by taking advantage of her hunger to learn.From the_____23_____beginning,babies try to imitate the____24______they hear us make.They""read"the_____25_____on our faces and our movements.That is_____26_____it is so important to talk,sing and smile to?your child.Hearing you talk is your baby′s first_____27_____toward becoming a reader,because it_____28_____her?to love language and to learn words.As your child grows older,_____29_____talking with her.Ask her about the things she does.Ask her?about the events and people in the story you_____30_____together.Let her know you are carefully_____31_____what she says.By keeping her in_____32_____and listening,you are_____33_____encouraging your child to think as?she speaks._____34_____,you are showing that you respect her knowledge and her ability to____35______learning.第（24）题答案A.effortsB.facesC.soundsD.stories
Scientists who study the brain have found out a great deal about how we learn.They have_____21_____that babies learn much more from the sights and sounds around them than we_____22_____before.You can?help your baby by taking advantage of her hunger to learn.From the_____23_____beginning,babies try to imitate the____24______they hear us make.They""read"the_____25_____on our faces and our movements.That is_____26_____it is so important to talk,sing and smile to?your child.Hearing you talk is your baby′s first_____27_____toward becoming a reader,because it_____28_____her?to love language and to learn words.As your child grows older,_____29_____talking with her.Ask her about the things she does.Ask her?about the events and people in the story you_____30_____together.Let her know you are carefully_____31_____what she says.By keeping her in_____32_____and listening,you are_____33_____encouraging your child to think as?she speaks._____34_____,you are showing that you respect her knowledge and her ability to____35______learning.第（22）题答案A.didB.hoped"C.studiedD.thought
I recently went to a charity party. At the end of the visit our host told us that the following Monday was his birthday. He asked21, as a gift to him, we would do something kind for someone else on that day. I thought that was a terrible birthday 22 !The following Monday, I saw my neighbor, a new mother, in the garden with her baby, I went outside to say"hello" to her. During the talk, she told me, not in a complaining 23 but just as a matter of fact, about the sleeplessness and the challenges to get anything done with a baby followed by. I 24 the charity party host's request and said,"Hey!Why don't 25 watch your baby for an hour!I will just hang out with him here in the back garden 26 you go in and take an hour to yourself."She was so surprised that she almost cried."Are you 27 Would you be able to do that ""Of course! " I said. "I'd be happy to! " An hour later she came outside with a smile on her face."I have 28 so much done! " she told me, and I told her that I had sung every kid's song I knew and had a good time hanging out with the baby, too. And I was so happy to see her smiling like that.It was one of the best 29 I've ever given, and it has given me the desire to ask the same 30 all my friends this year. I know it will make me feel great to know my friends are out there sharing their wisdom and time with people who can really use it.I recently went to a charity party. At the end of the visit our host told us that the following Monday was his birthday. He asked21, as a gift to him, we would do something kind for someone else on that day. I thought that was a terrible birthday 22 !The following Monday, I saw my neighbor, a new mother, in the garden with her baby, I went outside to say"hello" to her. During the talk, she told me, not in a complaining 23 but just as a matter of fact, about the sleeplessness and the challenges to get anything done with a baby followed by. I 24 the charity party host's request and said,"Hey!Why don't 25 watch your baby for an hour!I will just hang out with him here in the back garden 26 you go in and take an hour to yourself."She was so surprised that she almost cried."Are you 27 Would you be able to do that ""Of course! " I said. "I'd be happy to! " An hour later she came outside with a smile on her face."I have 28 so much done! " she told me, and I told her that I had sung every kid's song I knew and had a good time hanging out with the baby, too. And I was so happy to see her smiling like that.It was one of the best 29 I've ever given, and it has given me the desire to ask the same 30 all my friends this year. I know it will make me feel great to know my friends are out there sharing their wisdom and time with people who can really use it.A.orB.butC.andD.since
I recently went to a charity party. At the end of the visit our host told us that the following Monday was his birthday. He asked21, as a gift to him, we would do something kind for someone else on that day. I thought that was a terrible birthday 22 !The following Monday, I saw my neighbor, a new mother, in the garden with her baby, I went outside to say"hello" to her. During the talk, she told me, not in a complaining 23 but just as a matter of fact, about the sleeplessness and the challenges to get anything done with a baby followed by. I 24 the charity party host's request and said,"Hey!Why don't 25 watch your baby for an hour!I will just hang out with him here in the back garden 26 you go in and take an hour to yourself."She was so surprised that she almost cried."Are you 27 Would you be able to do that ""Of course! " I said. "I'd be happy to! " An hour later she came outside with a smile on her face."I have 28 so much done! " she told me, and I told her that I had sung every kid's song I knew and had a good time hanging out with the baby, too. And I was so happy to see her smiling like that.It was one of the best 29 I've ever given, and it has given me the desire to ask the same 30 all my friends this year. I know it will make me feel great to know my friends are out there sharing their wisdom and time with people who can really use it.A.thatB.howC.ifD.what
问答题How Babies Learn Language During the first year of a child’s life, parents and careers are concerned with its physical development very carefully. It is interesting just how easily children learn language. Children who are just three or four years old, who cannot yet tie their shoelaces, are able to speak in full sentences without any specific language training. The current view of child language development is that it is an instinct—something as natural as eating or sleeping. According to experts in this area, this language instinct is innate—something each of us is born with. But this prevailing view has not always enjoyed widespread acceptance. In the middle of last century, experts of the time, including a renowned professor at Harvard University in the United States, regarded child language development as the process of learning through mere repetition. Language “habits” developed as young children were they used incorrect forms of language correctly and ignored or punished when they used incorrect forms of language. Over time, a child, according to this theory, would learn language much like a dog might learn to behave properly through training. Yet even though the modern view holds that language is instinctive, experts like Assistant Professor Lise Eliot are convinced that the interaction a child has with its parents and caregivers is crucial to its developments. The language of the parents and caregivers is so important that the child will learn to speak in a manner very similar to the model speakers it hears.Given that the models parents provide are so important, it is interesting to consider the role of “baby talk” in the child’s language development. Baby talk is the language produced by an adult speaker who is trying to exaggerate certain aspects of the language to capture the attention of a young baby. Dr Roberta Golinkoff believes that babies benefit from baby talk. Experiment show that immediately after birth babies respond more to infant-directed talk than they do to adult-directed talk. When using baby talk, people exaggerate their facial expressions, which helps the baby to begin to understand what is being communicated. She also notes that the exaggerated nature and repetition of baby talk helps infants to learn the difference between sounds. Since babies have a great deal of information to process, baby talk helps. Although there is concern that baby talk may persist too long, Dr Golinkoff says that it stops being used as the child gets older, that is, when the child is better able to communicate with the parents. Professor Jusczyk has made a particular study of babies’ ability to recognize sounds, and says they recognize the sound of their own names as early as four and a half months. Babies know the meaning of Mummy and Daddy by about six months, which is earlier than was previously believed. By about nine months, babies begin recognizing frequent patterns in language. A baby will listen longer to the sounds that occur frequently, so it is good to frequently call the infant by its name. An experiment at Johns Hopkins University in USA, in which researchers went to the homes of 16 nine-month-olds, confirms this view. The researchers arranged their visits for ten days out of a two-week period. During each visit the researcher played an audio tape that included the same three stories. The stories included odd words such as “python” or “hornbill”, words that were unlikely to be encountered in the babies’ everyday experience. After a couple of weeks during which nothing was done, the babies were brought to the research lab, where they listened to two recorded lists of words. The first list included words heard in the story. The second included similar words, but not the exact ones that were used in the stories. Jusczyk found the babies listened longer to the words that had appeared in the stories, which indicated that the babies had extracted individual words from the story. When a control group of 16 nine-month-olds, who had not heard the stories, listened to the two groups of words, they showed no preference for either list. This does not mean that the babies actually understand the meanings of the words, just the sound patterns. It supports the idea that people are born to speak, and have the capacity to learn language from the day they are born. This ability is enhanced if they are involved in conversation. And, significantly, Dr Eliot reminds parents that babies and toddlers need to feel they are communicating. Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in the passage “How babies learn language”? YES if the statement agrees with the information NO if the statement dose not agree with the information NOT GIVEN if there is no information about this in the passage 1．From the time of their birth humans seem to have an ability to learn language. 2．According to experts in the 1950s and 1960s, language learning is very similar to the training of animals. 3．Repetition in language learning is important, according to Dr Eliot. 4．Dr Golinkoff is concerned that “baby talk” is spoken too much by some parents. 5．The first word a child learns to recognize is usually “Mummy” or “Daddy”.
问答题Practice 5 This isn’t the sort of girl to let the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle go to her head. Even if she did, her family would bring her down to earth. “When I started at Capital the only thing my brothers asked was whether they’d get free records,” she remembers. “And my mum couldn’t even find the station on her radio.” Margherita Taylor is very nice and very easy-going, but very much in control. She is so much a “Capital Radio girl” that you might think she is just doing a good job for the station’s publicity department, although you know what she’s saying really comes from the heart. She smiles a lot, laughs a lot and is generally a great advert for Capital.
单选题When MiShel gave birth to her first girl, the new sperm-separation technique _____.Ahad already been well-developedBhad not been declared successfulCwas available to those who wanted itDhad been widely accepted in the medical world
单选题Why did MiShel and Carl decide not to have a boy?ABecause they might give birth to a blind baby.BBecause Carl might pass his family’s disease to his son.CBecause the boy might become blind when he grows up.DBecause they wanted a daughter to balance their family.
单选题The author's depiction of Rachel in lines 11-21 (Her daughter,. Edwards) primarily serves to illustrate her ______.Aprospects for a fortunate marriageBresemblance to the great fallen Phineas EdwardsCenviable style and intelligenceDrecognition of the contrast between her and AphraEdesire to excite jealousy in her friends
单选题Passage 2It's no surprise that Jennifer Senior's insightful, provocative magazine cover story,I love My Children,I Hate My Life, is arousing much chatter-nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive-and newly single-mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual Jennifer Aniston is pregnant news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing? It doesn't seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their own(read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.It's hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting the Rachel might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.Jennifer Senior suggests in her article that raising a child can bring _______.Atemporary delightBenjoyment in progressChappiness in retrospectDlasting reward
单选题The passage shows that _____.Amother was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughterBmother was too serious about everything her daughter had doneCmother eared much about her daughter in wordsDmother wrote to her daughter in careful words
问答题Practice 7 When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also. She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servants. And as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived. The young English governess who came to teach her to read and write disliked her so much that she gave up her place in three months, and when other governesses came to try to fill it they always went away in a shorter time than the first one. So if Mary had not chosen to really want to know how to read books she would never have learned her letters at all.