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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 word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 39 to 43
The typical way of talking to a baby – high-pitched, exaggerated and repetitious – is a source of fascination for linguists who hope to understand how ‘baby talk’ impacts on learning. Most babies start developing their hearing while still in the womb, prompting some hopeful parents to play classical music to their pregnant bellies. Some research even suggests that infants are listening to adult speech as early as 10 weeks before being born, gathering the basic building blocks of their family’s native tongue.
Early language exposure seems to have benefits to the brain – for instance, studies suggest that babies raised in bilingual homes are better at learning how to mentally prioritize information. So how does the sweet if sometimes absurd sound of infant-directed speech influences a baby’s development? Here are some recent studies that explore the science behind baby talk.
Scientists from the University of Washington and the University of Connecticut collected thousands of 30-second conversations between parents and their babies, fitting 26 children with audio-recording vests that captured language and sound during a typical eight-hour day. The study found that the more baby talk parents used, the more their youngsters began to babble. And when researchers saw the same babies at age two, they found that frequent baby talk had dramatically boosted vocabulary, regardless of socioeconomic status. “Those children who listened to a lot of baby talk were talking more than the babies that listened to more adult talk or standard speech,” says Nairán Ramirez-Esparza of the University of Connecticut. “We also found that it really matters whether you use baby talk in a one-on-one context,” she adds. ‘The more parents use baby talk one-on-one, the more babies babble, and the more they babble, the more words they produce later in life.’
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (41) is...
A. to learn quickly and easily
B. to sleep well and a lot more
C. to listen clearly and attentively
D. to talk quickly and unintelligibly
The typical way of talking to a baby – high-pitched, exaggerated and repetitious – is a source of fascination for linguists who hope to understand how ‘baby talk’ impacts on learning. Most babies start developing their hearing while still in the womb, prompting some hopeful parents to play classical music to their pregnant bellies. Some research even suggests that infants are listening to adult speech as early as 10 weeks before being born, gathering the basic building blocks of their family’s native tongue.
Early language exposure seems to have benefits to the brain – for instance, studies suggest that babies raised in bilingual homes are better at learning how to mentally prioritize information. So how does the sweet if sometimes absurd sound of infant-directed speech influences a baby’s development? Here are some recent studies that explore the science behind baby talk.
Scientists from the University of Washington and the University of Connecticut collected thousands of 30-second conversations between parents and their babies, fitting 26 children with audio-recording vests that captured language and sound during a typical eight-hour day. The study found that the more baby talk parents used, the more their youngsters began to babble. And when researchers saw the same babies at age two, they found that frequent baby talk had dramatically boosted vocabulary, regardless of socioeconomic status. “Those children who listened to a lot of baby talk were talking more than the babies that listened to more adult talk or standard speech,” says Nairán Ramirez-Esparza of the University of Connecticut. “We also found that it really matters whether you use baby talk in a one-on-one context,” she adds. ‘The more parents use baby talk one-on-one, the more babies babble, and the more they babble, the more words they produce later in life.’
(Adapted from Cambridge IELTS 13 Reading – Test 03)
The word “babble” in the paragraph 3 is closet in meaning to _______The word or phrase which best fits the gap (41) is...
A. to learn quickly and easily
B. to sleep well and a lot more
C. to listen clearly and attentively
D. to talk quickly and unintelligibly
Từ " babble" trong đoạn 3 tương tự nghĩa với ________
babble /'bæbl (v): bập bẹ
= to talk quickly in a way that is difficult to understand
= to talk quickly and unintelligibly
A. Học nhanh và dễ dàng
C. Lắng nghe rõ ràng và chăm chú
B. ngủ ngon và nhiều hơn
D. Nói nhanh và khó hiểu
Căn cứ vào:
The study found that the more baby talk parents used, the more their youngsters began to babble. (Nghiên cứu nhận ra rằng bố mẹ nói chuyện với trẻ càng nhiều thì con của họ càng bập bẹ nhiều hơn.)
babble /'bæbl (v): bập bẹ
= to talk quickly in a way that is difficult to understand
= to talk quickly and unintelligibly
A. Học nhanh và dễ dàng
C. Lắng nghe rõ ràng và chăm chú
B. ngủ ngon và nhiều hơn
D. Nói nhanh và khó hiểu
Căn cứ vào:
The study found that the more baby talk parents used, the more their youngsters began to babble. (Nghiên cứu nhận ra rằng bố mẹ nói chuyện với trẻ càng nhiều thì con của họ càng bập bẹ nhiều hơn.)
Đáp án D.