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A study showed that the experiences children have in their first few years are important . These experiences affect the development of the brain. When children receive more attention, they often have higher IQs. Babies receive information when they see, hear and feel things, which makes connections between different parts of the brain. There are a hundred trillion(万亿)connections in the brain of a three-year-old child.
Researcher Judit Gervain tested how good newborns are at distinguishing different sound patterns. Her researchers produced images of the brains of babies as they heard different sound patterns. For example, one order was mu-ba-ba. This is the pattern"A-B-B". Another order 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 the" A-B-B"pattern. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. They also were sensitive to where it occurred in the order.
Gervain is excited by these findings because the order of sounds is the building block of words and grammar. "Position is key to language," she says. "If something is at the beginning or at the end, it makes a big difference: 'John caught the bear.' is very different from 'The bear caught John.'”
Researchers led by scientist Patricia Kuhl have found that language delivered by televisions, audio books, the Internet, or smartphones－no matter how educational－doesn’t appear to be enough for children’s brain development. They carried out a study of nine-month-old American babies. They expected the first group who’d watched videos in Chinese to show the same kind of learning as the second group who were brought face-to-face with the same sounds. Instead they found a huge difference. The babies in the second group were able to distinguish between similar Chinese sounds as well as native listeners. But the other babies －regardless of whether they had watched the video or listened to the audio－learned nothing.
1.What makes connections in a baby’s brain?
A. Having a higher IQ. B. Experiencing new information.
C. The baby’s early age. D. The connection with other babies.
2.What did Judit Gervain and her team find in the experiment?
A. Babies can identify different sound patterns.
B. Word order is relevant to meaning.
C. Babies can well understand different words.
D. A certain brain region processes language.
3.What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 3?
A. Words have different sounds.
B. Different orders have different meanings.
C. Different languages have different grammar.
D. Grammar is important in learning languages.
4.What is the main conclusion from the study led by Patricia Kuhl?
A. Babies shouldn’t watch a lot of television.
B. Foreign languages help babies’ brain develop.
C. Listening to different languages develops babies’ brain.
D. Social communication improves babies’ brain development.
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A study showed that the experiences children have in their first few years are important . These experiences affect the development of the brain. When children receive more attention, they often have higher IQs. Babies receive information when they see, hear and feel things, which makes connections between different parts of the brain. There are a hundred trillion(万亿)connections in the brain of a three-year-old child.
Researcher Judit Gervain tested how good newborns are at distinguishing different sound patterns. Her researchers produced images of the brains of babies as they heard different sound patterns. For example, one order was mu-ba-ba. This is the pattern"A-B-B". Another order 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 the" A-B-B"pattern. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. They also were sensitive to where it occurred in the order.
Gervain is excited by these findings because the order of sounds is the building block of words and grammar."Position is key to language," she says. "If something is at the beginning or at the end, it makes a big difference:'John caught the bear.' is very different from 'The bear caught John.'”
Researchers led by scientist Patricia Kuhl have found that language delivered by televisions, audio books,the Internet, or smartphones－no matter how educational－doesn’t appear to be enough for children’s brain development. They carried out a study of nine-month-old American babies. They expected the first group who’d watched videos in Chinese to show the same kind of learning as the second group who were brought face-to-face with the same sounds. Instead they found a huge difference. The babies in the second group were able to distinguish between similar Chinese sounds as well as native listeners. But the other babies －regardless of whether they had watched the video or listened to the audio－learned nothing.
1.What makes connections in a baby’s brain?
A. Having a higher IQ. B. Experiencing new information
C. The baby’ early age D. The connection with other babies
2.What did Judit Gervain and her team find in the experiment?
A. Babies identify different sound patterns.
B. Word order is relevant to meaning.
C. Babies can well understand different words.
D. A certain brain region processes language.
3.What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 3?
A. Grammar is important in learning languages.
B. Different orders have different meanings.
C. Different languages have different grammar.
D. Words have different sounds.
4.What is the main conclusion from the study led by Patricia Kuhl?
A. Babies shouldn’t watch a lot of television.
B. Listening to different languages develops babies’ brain
C. Foreign languages help babies’ brain develop
D. Social communication improves babies’ brain development.
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Recent studies have discovered that fathers uniquely contribute to the development of their children, _____ in low income families.
A．specially
B．definitely
C．specifically
D．particularly
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
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In this experiment, the famous professor showed three different____ to the study of physics．
A．means B．methods C．ways D．approaches
高三英语单选选择简单题查看答案及解析
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In this experiment, the famous professor showed three different ________ to the study of physics.(2012·河北保定中学月考)
A．methods B．ways
C．approaches D．means
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
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Many parents worry that showing negative emotions in front of their children will cause them to suffer. For example, children may end up thinking it's their fault or simply "catch" the emotion. Indeed, this worry has a sound basis — the phenomenon of “emotional contagion"（情绪感染）is real, and one recent study found that parents can transfer their fear of going to the dentist, for example, to their children.
On the other hand, there is the natural idea that we should “be real" with our children, and that they will benefit from watching a parent who struggles and eventually deals with their negative emotions like any other human being.
There are three concepts to consider when it comes to emotional display in front of children: suppression （压抑），"uncontained" expression, and talking about emotions. Suppression of emotion is when you hide the outward signs of an emotion. Unfortunately, it doesn't work very well — the act of suppressing your emotion actually increases your blood pressure. Observers can pick up on your distress despite your efforts to hide it, making them feel stressed. The recent research has also found that when parents feel negative emotions and keep them from their children, they experience lower relationship quality and decreased responsiveness to their child's needs.
On the other hand, “uncontained" expression of anger and sadness by the parent is also not salutary for the child. Uncontained means high intensity emotion, with no attempts to regulate or take ownership of it. Shouting, smashing （摔）things and blaming someone else for "making you angry" are all example of this .
So, what is the middle ground? That would be talking about emotion taking ownership of them and showing your child that you are trying to deal with them. Classic research found that six-year-old kids had better emotional understanding and perspective-taking skills if their mothers had talked to them about their emotions at the age of three. In fact, the more the mothers had talked, the better the outcome would be.
So next time you feel sad, angry or frustrated and your child is watching you expressing emotion, do explain what's going on in terms they can understand.
1.The author uses the example of going to the dentist mainly to _______.
A.explain parents' common fear
B.introduce the topic of negative emotions
C.show children may catch parents' emotions
D.present the consequences of transferring negative emotions
2.If a mother suppresses （(压抑)）her emotions, .
A.she will not make her kids feel stressed
B.she can hide her emotions from her kids
C.she will often shout at her kids for no reasons
D.she can't respond effectively to her kids' needs
3.What does the underlined word "salutary" in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A.Enough. B.Beneficial.
C.Necessary. D.Reliable.
4.What is the author's intention of writing this text?
A.To encourage parents to "be real" with our children.
B.To call on parents to develop a positive attitude to life.
C.To inform parents of the consequences of negative emotions.
D.To recommend parents to talk about negative emotions with children.
5.What's the structure of the text?
A.
B.
C.
D.
高三英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
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Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story to their children. And they must have how difficult it is to write a children's book. Either the author has aimed too . , so that the children can't follow what is in his (or more often, her) story, the story seems to be talking to the readers.
The best children's books are very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy both the who hears the story and the adult who it. Unfortunately, there are in fact books like this, the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not to solve.
This may be why many of books regarded as of children's literature were in fact written for . “Alice's Adventure in Wonderland” is perhaps the most of this.
Children, left for themselves, often the worst possible interest in literature. Just leave a child in bookshop or and he will more willingly choose the books in an imaginative way, or have a look at most children's comics ( 连环画 ), full of the stories and jokes to which both teachers and right-thinking parents .
Perhaps we parents should stop trying to persuade children into our taste in literature. After all children and adults are so that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the books. So I suppose we'll just have to compromise（妥协） over that bedtime story.
1.A.hoped B. realized C. told D. said
2.A.short B. long C. bad D. good
3.A. easy B. short C. high D. difficult
4.A. and B. but C. or D. so
5.A. both B. neither C. either D. very
6.A. child B. father C. mother D. teacher
7.A. hears B. buys C. understands D. reads
8.A. few B. many C. little D. much
9.A. but B. however C. so D. because
10.A.hard B. easy C. enough D. fast
11.A.articles B. work C. arts D. works
12.A. adults B. girls C. boys D. children
13.A. difficult B. hidden C. obvious D. easy
14.A. are B. show C. find D. add
15.A. library B. school C. home D. office
16.A. read B. designed C. printed D. written
17.A. favor B. interest C. object D. read
18.A.receiving B. accepting C. having D. refusing
19.A.same B. friendly C. different D. common
20.A.common B. average C. different D. same
高三英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
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A recent survey shows that the number of children who from the countryside with their parents ________nearly 320,000 in Beijing.
A. comes; are B. come; is C. come; are D. comes; is
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
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Experiments have proved that children can 1 (instruct) in swimming at a very early age. At a special swimming pool in Los Angeles, children become expert at 2 (hold) their breath under water even before they can walk. 3 (baby) of two months old do not appear to be reluctant to enter the water. It is not long 4 they are so accustomed to swimming 5 they can pick up weights from the floor of the pool. A game that is very popular with these young 6 (swim) is the underwater tricycle race. Tricycles are lined up on the floor of the pool seven feet under water. The children compete against each other to reach the other end of the pool. Many pedal their tricycles, 7 most of them prefer to push or drag them. Some children 8 cover the whole length of the pool 9 coming up for breath even once. Whether they will ever become future Olympic champions, only time will tell. Meanwhile, they should encourage 10 among us who cannot swim five yards before they are gasping for air.
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Scientists have recreated a 1985 study of birds in Peru that shows climate change is pushing them from their natural environment. Thirty years ago, researchers studied over 400 kinds of birds living on a mountainside in Peru. In 2017, researchers looked again at the bird populations. They found that almost all had moved to higher places in the mountain. Almost all had decreased in size. And, the scientists say at least eight bird groups that started at the higher elevations (高地) had died out completely.
The researchers say the birds might have moved up the mountain because of temperature changes. Or changes to food sources may have forced them to go higher. The findings were published in a science journal. The 1985 research has documented birds and other animals moving up in elevation (高地) in reaction to warming temperatures. Mark Urban, a biologist at a university, said this recent study was the first to prove that rising temperatures and moving to avoid them can lead to extinction.
In 2016, Fitzpatrick, director and a co-writer of the study passed his notes, photos and other records to Benjamin Freeman. Freeman has been researching tropical birds for more than 10 years. He set out in August and September of 2017 to copy Fitzpatrick’s study. His team used the same methods, searching the same places in the same time of year.
Freeman’s team wanted to see how things had changed for the bird groups since 1985. The average temperatures on the mountain had risen 0.42 degrees Celsius. His team placed 20 sound recording devices on the mountain to record the sounds of birds that might not easily be seen.
Freeman said that the birds moved an average of 98 meters further up the mountain. He believes that temperature is the main cause of the birds’ movement. Fitzpatrick noted that birds used to living in areas with little temperature change may be especially at risk because of climate change. He said, “We should expect that what’s happening on this mountain top is happening more generally in the Andes, and other tropical mountain ranges.”
1.How many kinds of birds lived in Peru 30 years ago?
A. At least eight bird groups. B. More than 400.
C. Over eight bird groups. D. Less than 400.
2.Why did the birds move up the mountain?
A. To avoid temperature changes.
B. To find more food sources.
C. To adapt to extreme temperature.
D. To react to the increase of other kinds of animals.
3.How did Freeman and his team record the sound of birds not easily being seen?
A. They had the temperature rise 0.42 degrees Celsius.
B. They moved an average of 98 meters further up the mountain.
C. They placed 20 sound recording devices on the mountain.
D. They kept on listening to the sound happening on this mountain top.
4.What is the main idea of the text?
A. Two teams used the same methods to do researches.
B. Scientists documented birds and other animals moving up in elevation.
C. Scientists have been researching tropical birds for more than 10 years.
D. Rising temperature made almost all birds in Peru become extinct.
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