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.
A newborn baby can see, hear and feel. By the age of five, a child can talk, ride a bike and invent imaginary friends. How does this development happen? We don't understand the way language, thinking and planning develop very well. Now scientists are using new technology to 'see' into children's brains. And they are discovering new information about the way a baby's brain develops.
A study in 2010 showed that the experiences a child has in their first few years affect the development of the brain. It showed that children who received more attention often had higher IQs. The brain of a newborn baby has nearly a hundred billion neurons. This is the same number as an adult's brain. As they grow, a baby receives information through the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. This information creates connections between different parts of the brain. At the age of three, there are a hundred trillion connections.
One experiment looked at images of babies' brains while they were listening to different sounds. The sounds were in different sequences. For example, one sequence was mu-ba-ba. This is the pattern 'A-B-B'. Another sequence was mu-ba-ge. This is the pattern 'A-B-C'. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for speech was more active during A-B-B' patterns. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. This experiment is interesting because sequences of words are important to grammar and meaning. Compare two sentences with the same words in a different order: John killed the bear' is very different from 'The bear killed John.' So babies are starting to learn grammatical rules from the beginning of life.
Researchers also know that babies need to hear a lot of language in order to understand grammar rules. But there is a big difference between listening to television, audio books or the internet, and interacting with people. One study compared two groups of nine-month-old American babies. One group watched videos of Mandarin Chinese sounds. In the other group, people spoke the same sounds to the babies. The test results showed that the second group could recognise different sounds, however the first group learned nothing. The scientist, Patricia Kuhl, said this result was very surprising. It suggests that social experience is essential to successful brain development in babies.
A. Mandarin Chinese is not too hard to be learned for American babies.
B. Social interaction has a big influence on the brain.
C. Watching videos is a good way to develop a child's brain.
D. Babies can understand television at the age of nine months.
A newborn baby can see, hear and feel. By the age of five, a child can talk, ride a bike and invent imaginary friends. How does this development happen? We don't understand the way language, thinking and planning develop very well. Now scientists are using new technology to 'see' into children's brains. And they are discovering new information about the way a baby's brain develops.
A study in 2010 showed that the experiences a child has in their first few years affect the development of the brain. It showed that children who received more attention often had higher IQs. The brain of a newborn baby has nearly a hundred billion neurons. This is the same number as an adult's brain. As they grow, a baby receives information through the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. This information creates connections between different parts of the brain. At the age of three, there are a hundred trillion connections.
One experiment looked at images of babies' brains while they were listening to different sounds. The sounds were in different sequences. For example, one sequence was mu-ba-ba. This is the pattern 'A-B-B'. Another sequence was mu-ba-ge. This is the pattern 'A-B-C'. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for speech was more active during A-B-B' patterns. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. This experiment is interesting because sequences of words are important to grammar and meaning. Compare two sentences with the same words in a different order: John killed the bear' is very different from 'The bear killed John.' So babies are starting to learn grammatical rules from the beginning of life.
Researchers also know that babies need to hear a lot of language in order to understand grammar rules. But there is a big difference between listening to television, audio books or the internet, and interacting with people. One study compared two groups of nine-month-old American babies. One group watched videos of Mandarin Chinese sounds. In the other group, people spoke the same sounds to the babies. The test results showed that the second group could recognise different sounds, however the first group learned nothing. The scientist, Patricia Kuhl, said this result was very surprising. It suggests that social experience is essential to successful brain development in babies.
(Adapted from "Select Readings - Upper Intermediate" by Linda Lee and Erik Gundersen)
What is the main conclusion from the study described in the last paragraph?A. Mandarin Chinese is not too hard to be learned for American babies.
B. Social interaction has a big influence on the brain.
C. Watching videos is a good way to develop a child's brain.
D. Babies can understand television at the age of nine months.
Giải thích:
Đâu là kết luận chính từ nghiên cứu được mô tả trong đoạn cuối?
A. Tiếng Quan Thoại Trung Quốc không quá khó để các em bé Hoa Kỳ học.
B. Tương tác xã hội có ảnh hưởng to lớn đến não bộ.
C. Việc xem video là một cách tốt để phát triển não bộ trẻ.
D. Các em bé có thể hiểu truyền hình khi mới 9 tháng tuổi.
Thông tin:
The scientist, Patricia Kuhl, said this result was very surprising. It suggests that social experience is essential to successful brain development in babies. (Nhà khoa học, Patricia Kuhl, nói rằng kết quả này rất đáng ngạc nhiên. Nó đề xuất rằng trải nghiệm xã hội là cần thiết cho sự phát triển thành công của não bộ của những em bé.)
Đâu là kết luận chính từ nghiên cứu được mô tả trong đoạn cuối?
A. Tiếng Quan Thoại Trung Quốc không quá khó để các em bé Hoa Kỳ học.
B. Tương tác xã hội có ảnh hưởng to lớn đến não bộ.
C. Việc xem video là một cách tốt để phát triển não bộ trẻ.
D. Các em bé có thể hiểu truyền hình khi mới 9 tháng tuổi.
Thông tin:
The scientist, Patricia Kuhl, said this result was very surprising. It suggests that social experience is essential to successful brain development in babies. (Nhà khoa học, Patricia Kuhl, nói rằng kết quả này rất đáng ngạc nhiên. Nó đề xuất rằng trải nghiệm xã hội là cần thiết cho sự phát triển thành công của não bộ của những em bé.)
Đáp án B.