Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Kids are far better than adults at learning how to speak multiple languages. Research now shows that very young infants might have some of the best language skills of all. A new study suggests that babies between 4 and 6 months old can tell the difference between two languages just by looking at the speaker's face. They don't need to hear word. Sometimes between 6-8 months of age, babies raised in homes where just one language is spoken lose _ . Babies from bilingual homes, on the other hand, keep the face-reading ability until they're at least 8 months old. Researchers in prefix = st1 /Canadastudied 36 infants from English-speaking families. Twelve of the babies were 4 months old,12 were 6 months old, and the rest were 8 months old. Each baby sat on his or her mother's lap and watched video clips of a woman talking. The woman was fluent in both English and French. In some clips, she read from a storybook in English. In other clips, she read in French. In all of the videos there was no sound. After watching clip after clip of the woman reading in just one language, the babies eventually started to look away, apparently because they were bored. The researchers then showed the babies a new silent clip of the woman reading a story in the other language. At that point, the 4-month-olds and 6-month-olds started looking at the screen again. The 8-month-old,by contrast, paid no attention. That suggests that a baby's ability to distinguish between languages get lost before 8 months of age. "Visual information about speech may play a more critical role in language learning than previously expected," says researcher psychologist Whitney. It's not yet clear, she adds, which part of the speaker's face babies are looking at for clues. Next, scientists want to see whether babies can match faces with the voices of foreign-language speakers. If babies can do this, the scientists would then like to know if this ability also declines toward the end of the first year of life. Question: Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage ? Options: A: All the infants in the study are of the same age. B: The infants could hear the woman's voice while watching the videos. C: The stories the woman read were written in either French or German. D: It's still unknown how infants could tell the difference between languages.
Ans: D

Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: If you do not use your arms or your legs some time, they become weak; when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows this and nobody would think of questioning this fact. Yet there are many people who do not seem to know that memory works in the same way. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by exercising it frequently either consciously or unconsciously. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he doesn't give it enough chances to become strong. If a friend complains that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think his parents are to blame and that he is just unlucky, and few of us realize that it is just as much as his own fault as if it is his arms or legs that were weak. Question: If someone's memory is poor, _ . Options: A: his parents are to blame B: he is unlucky C: he has grown older D: he should give it more chances to become strong
Ans: D

Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Fuzhou Road is famous for its book stores. Shanghai's City of Books (Nandong) Address: No. 345, Nanjing Road. E. near Shandong Road N. Tel: 6322-1557 Opening Hour: 9:30--21:30 It is a branch of Shanghai's City of Books. It doesn't sell any foreign language books, but you can buy CDs of computer games and software. Traffic: Metro Line No. 2 (Nanjing Road E. Station) Shanghai's City of Books Address: No. 465, Fuzhou Road Tel: 6391-4848 Opening Hour: 9:30--20:30 This is the biggest book store in Shanghai with six floors. Each floor has different kinds of books, but most English books are for Chinese students preparing for exams. Foreign Language Bookstore Address: No. 390, Fuzhou Road Tel: 6322-3200 Opening Hour: 9:00--18:00 You can find many English novels on the ground floor, as well as dictionaries. There is a corner on the ground floor for foreigners who want to learn Chinese. On the higher floors, you can find some professional books in English. Of course, many of the books are for Chinese students. Shanghai Culture Commercial Building Address: No. 355, Fuzhou Road Opening Hour: 9:00--17:30 This store has a variety of stationery and painting materials. If you major in painting or art, this is a good place to find professional materials. Question: If your foreign friends want to learn Chinese, you can suggest they go to _ . Options: A: No. 345, Nanjing Road. B: No. 465, Fuzhou Road C: No. 390, Fuzhou Road D: No. 355, Fuzhou Road
Ans: C

Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: If you look for a book as a present for a child,you will be spoiled for choice even in a year there is no new Harry Potter. J.K Rowling's wizard is not alone.The past decade has been a harvest for good children's books, which has set off a large quantity of films and an increased sales of classics such as The Lord of the Rings. Yet despite that, reading is increasingly unpopular among children.According to statistics in 1997, 23% said they didn't like reading at all.In 2003, 35% didn't.And around 6% of the children leave primary school each year unable to read properly. Maybe the decline is caused by the increasing availability of computes games.Maybe the books boom has affected only the top of the educational pile.Either way, Chancellor Cordon Brown plans to change things for the bottom of the class.In his pre-budget report, he announced the national project of Reading Recovery to help the children struggling most. Reading Recovery is aimed at six year olds, who receive four months of individual daily half-hour classes with a specially trained teacher.An evaluation this year reported that children on the school made 20 months' progress in just one year, whereas similarly weak readers without special help made just five months' progress ,and so ended the year even further below the level expected for their age. International research tends to find that when British children leave primary school, they read well, but read text often for fun than those elsewhere.Reading for fun matters because children who are keen on reading can report lifelong pleasure and loving books is an excellent indicator of future educational success.According to the OECD, being a regular and enthusiastic reader is of great advantage. Question: Statistics suggested that _ . Options: A: the number of top students increased with the use of computers B: a decreasing number of children showed interest in reading C: a minority of primary school children read properly D: a huge percentage of children read regularly
Ans:
B