Question

Chinese characters help improve IQ Chinese characters may be the reason why local children aged between 6 and 12 display a higher IQ than their peers in Britain, Germany and Australia.

The pictographic nature of the Chinese writing sys?tem helps to inspire the thinking ability of children. Their intelligence develops better while they learn the characters. 9 

I am a retired Chinese-language teacher from Malaysia. From my experiences, I have long noticed that Chinese-medium-educated students always excel in mathematics as compared with those taught in other lan?guages. 10 The words for numerals are all monosyllabic(單音節(jié)的)in Chinese. In contrast, their equivalents(對應(yīng)詞)in Malay have two or three syllables, like sa-tu, du a, ti-ga, em-pat, li-ma, e-nam. 11 Their English equivalents-- one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine ten, hundred, thousand, mil?lion―include multi-syllabic words, too.

12 Children easily find that it is in the Chinese language that they can do the job fastest. Children taught in Chinese find it easier to learn numerals and can do their calculations much faster. This has been repeatedly proved by reports on Chinese-medium-educated students winning prizes in the International Mathemati?cal Olympiad.

Mathematics has a lot to do with IQ tests, as it is well proved that children good at numbers tend to have a stronger reasoning ability. 13 Teach the children Chinese so that they can think in the language. Keep their cutting edge in mathematics with the aid of Chinese characters, and this will improve their IQ.

A.    The secret lies in the Chinese characters.

B.    They are much quicker at learning languages.

C.    This was discovered by Dr Zeng， assistant professor of psychology at NUS.

D.    The difference between them is striking when it comes to memorizing the multiplication table.

E.    So, I would like to call on Chinese parents to treas?ure the language of our ancestors.

F.    It takes a longer time to pronounce these words.

G.    Therefore, I'm going to teach mathematics if possible.

Answer 1

C根據(jù)文章第三段所講的作者的教學(xué)經(jīng)歷，以及第二段對這個理論的闡述可推知，以上的理論是由一個教授所發(fā)現(xiàn)的，故選C項。

A 由下文可知，此處是在揭示原因，故選A項。

F 根據(jù)上文的"The words for numerals are all monosyllab?ic (單音 節(jié)的) in Chinese. In contrast, their equivalents(對應(yīng)詞)in Malay have two or three syllables, like sa-tu, du-a, ti-ga, em-pat, li-ma, eriam."并結(jié)合下文的"Children easily find that it is in the Chinese language that they can do the job fastest."可知，多音節(jié)詞自然比單音節(jié)詞讀起來花費時間長一些，故選F項。

D 根據(jù)下文的"Children taught in Chinese find it easier to learn numerals and can do their calculations much faster. This has been repeatedly proved by reports on Chinese-medi?um-educated students winning prizes in the International Mathematical Olympiad."可知，學(xué)中文的孩子在數(shù)學(xué)計算方面要快許多，結(jié)果令人震驚，故選D項。

E 根據(jù)下文（*Teach the children Chinese so that they can think in the language. Keep their cutting edge in mathemat?ics with the aid of Chinese characters, and this will improve their IQ."可知，此處呼吁中國父母珍惜漢語，故選E項。