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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 (40) is...
A. brains
B. parents
C. impacts
D. babies
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 "their" in paragraph 1 refers to _______The word or phrase which best fits the gap (40) is...
A. brains
B. parents
C. impacts
D. babies
Từ "their" trong đoạn 1 nhằm chỉ _____
A. bộ não
B. bố mẹ
C. những tác động
D. trẻ em
Most babies start developing their hearing while still in the womb, prompting some hopeful parents to play classical music to their pregnant bellies. (Hầu hết trẻ em bắt đầu phát triển khả năng nghe của mình trong khi vẫn còn trong bụng mẹ, khiến cho một số phụ huynh bật nhạc cổ điển cho những chiếc bụng bầu của họ.)
A. bộ não
B. bố mẹ
C. những tác động
D. trẻ em
Most babies start developing their hearing while still in the womb, prompting some hopeful parents to play classical music to their pregnant bellies. (Hầu hết trẻ em bắt đầu phát triển khả năng nghe của mình trong khi vẫn còn trong bụng mẹ, khiến cho một số phụ huynh bật nhạc cổ điển cho những chiếc bụng bầu của họ.)
Đáp án D.