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Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.
Long before they can actually speak, babies pay special attention to the speech they hear around them. Within the first month of their lives, babies' responses to the sound of the human voice will be different from their responses to other sorts of auditory stimuli. They will stop crying when they hear a person talking, but not if they hear a bell or the sound of a rattle. At first, the sounds that an infant notices might be only those words that receive the heaviest emphasis and that often occur at the ends of utterances. By the time they are six or seven weeks old, babies can detect the difference between syllables pronounced with rising and falling inflections. Very soon, these differences in adult stress and intonation can influence babies' emotional states and behavior. Long before they develop actual language comprehension, babies can sense when an adult is playful or angry, attempting to initiate or terminate new behavior, and so on, merely on the basis of cues such as the rate, volume, and melody
of adult speech.
Adults make it as easy as they can for babies to pick up a language by exaggerating such cues. One researcher observed babies and their mothers in six diverse cultures and found that, in all six languages, the mothers used simplified syntax, short utterances and non sense sounds, and transformed certain sounds into baby talk. Other investigators have noted that when mothers talk to babies who are only a few months old, they exaggerate the pitch, loudness, and intensity of their words. They also exaggerate their facial expressions, hold vowels longer, and emphasize certain words.
More significant for language development than their response to general intonation is observation that tiny babies can make relatively fine distinctions between speech sounds. In other words, babies enter the world with the ability to make precisely those perceptual discriminations that are necessary if they are to acquire aural language.
Babies obviously derive pleasure from sound input, too: even as young as nine months they will listen to songs or stories, although the words themselves are beyond their understanding. For babies, language is a sensory-motor delight rather than the route to prosaic meaning that it often is for adults.
According to the author, why do babies listen to songs and stories, even though they cannot understand them?
A. They understand the rhythm.
B. They enjoy the sound.
C. They can remember them easily.
D. They focus on the meaning of their parents' words.
Đáp án B: They enjoy the sound
Kĩ năng đọc hiểu: Tìm thông tin chi tiết trong bài đọc
Giải thích chi tiết:
Theo tác giả, tại sao các em bé nghe các bài hát và câu chuyện dù không thể hiểu nghĩa?
A. Chúng hiểu giai điệu
B. Chúng thích thú với âm thanh
C. Chúng có thể ghi nhớ dễ dàng
D. Chúng tập trung vào nghĩa của các từ cha mẹ nói.
Dựa vào đoạn 4:
"Babies obviously derive pleasure fromsound input, too: even as young as nine months they will listen to songs or stories, although the words themselves are beyond their un derstanding".
(Các bé rõ ràng cũng tìm thấy niềm vui thích khi tiếp nhận âm thanh: kể cả mới 9 tháng tuổi, chúng cũng sẽ lắng nghe các bài hát và câu chuyện mặc dù bản thân chúng không hiểu nghĩa).
Có thể thấy phương án B là phù hợp nhất. Các phương án còn lại không hợp nghĩa.
Đáp án B.
 

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