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(二)请看教材第61页阅读判断第四篇:
1. Babies can learn language even in their sleep.
a. Right
b. Wrong
c. Not mentioned
2. An infant can recognize a lot of vowels by the time he or she is a year old.
a. Right
b. Wrong
c. Not mentioned
3. Finnish vowels are easy to distinguish.
a. Right
b. Wrong
c. Not mentioned
4. The three vowels mentioned in this article are all Finnish sounds.
a. Right
b. Wrong
c. Not mentioned
5. The study shows that the infants cerebral cortex is working while he is asleep.
a. Right
b. Wrong
c. Not mentioned
6. If an adult wants to learn a language faster, he can put a language tape under his pillow.
a. Right
b. Wrong
c. Not mentioned
7. Cheours finding is worthless.
a. Right
b. Wrong
c. Not mentioned
答案:ACCBABB
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Students should be jealous. Not only do babies get to doze their days away, but theyve also mastered the fine art of learning in their sleep.
By the time babies are a year old they can recognize a lot of sounds and even simple words. Marie Cheour at the university of Turku in Finland suspected // that they might progress this fast / because they learn language / while they sleep as well as / when they are awake.
To test the theory, Cheour and their colleagues studied 45 newborn babies in the first days of their lives. They exposed all the infants to an hour of Finnish vowel sounds--- one / that sounds like oo, another like ee and a third boundary vowel peculiar to Finnish and similar languages / that sounds like something in between. EEG (脑电图) recording of the infants brains before and after the session showed / that the newborns could not distinguish the sounds.