Not long ago, many people believed that babies only wanted food and to be kept warm and dry. Some people thought babies were not able to learn things until they were five or six months old.
Yet doctors in the United States say babies begin learning on their first day of life. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development is a federal government agency. Its goal is to determine which experiences can influence healthy development in people.
Researchers at the institute note that babies are strongly influenced by their environment. They say a baby will smile if her mother does something the baby likes. A baby learns to get the best care possible by smiling to please her mother or other caregiver. This is how babies learn to connect and communicate with other people.
The researchers say this ability to learn exists in a baby even before birth. They say newborn babies can recognize and understand sounds they heard while they were still developing inside their mothers.
Another study has suggested that low birth weight babies with no evidence of disability may be more likely than other children to have physical and mental problems.
American researchers studied almost five hundred boys and girls. They were born in, or admitted to, one of three hospitals in New Jersey between 1984 and 1987. At birth, each child weighed fewer than two thousand grams.
The boys and girls had an average age of sixteen at the time of the study. They were asked to complete intelligence and motor skill tests in their homes. Their test results were compared with those of other children their age.
小題1:According to the passage, some people used to think that babies began to learn _________.
A．on their first day of lifeB．even before they were born
C．before five or six months oldD．a(chǎn)t or after five or six months old
小題2:Babies learn to connect and communicate with other people through_____________.
A．smilesB．criesC．facial expressionsD．body language
小題3:The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development tries to find out ________.
A．what affects people’s healthy development
B．what influences babies’ learning ability
C．how to cure some children’s health problems
D．how to develop children’s learning ability
小題4:What will be mentioned in the following passage?
A．The evaluation method of the tests.
B．The cause of low birth weight babies.
C．The result of the intelligence and motor skill tests.
D．The evidence proving babies began to learn before birth.

小題1:D
小題2:D
小題3:A
小題4:C

試題分析：這篇文章主要講了嬰兒究竟是在什么時(shí)候開(kāi)始學(xué)習(xí)？眾說(shuō)紛紜，有的認(rèn)為是在出生之后；有的認(rèn)為是在有了需要的知覺(jué)，而今天這篇文章中，美國(guó)專家認(rèn)為，嬰兒在開(kāi)始形成時(shí)就開(kāi)始了學(xué)習(xí)。
小題1:D細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第一段 Some people thought babies were not able to learn things until they were five or six months old，可知有些人認(rèn)為嬰兒四到五個(gè)月大才開(kāi)始學(xué)習(xí)，所以選D
小題2:D 信息歸納題。根據(jù)文章第三段They say a baby will smile if her mother does something the baby likes. A baby learns to get the best care possible by smiling to please her mother or other caregiver.可知嬰兒可以通過(guò)他人的肢體語(yǔ)言來(lái)進(jìn)行學(xué)習(xí)，所以選D
小題3:A 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第二段Its goal is to determine which experiences can influence healthy development in people.可知這個(gè)研究所的目的是研究什么經(jīng)歷能影響人的健康發(fā)展，所以選A
小題4:C 推斷題。根據(jù)最后一段的They were asked to complete intelligence and motor skill tests in their homes.可知下一段會(huì)出示這些測(cè)試的結(jié)果，所以選C
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