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1、职称英语B2021年职称英语考试理工类B级阅读试题及答案8Easy LearningStudents 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 recognise a lot of sounds and even simple words.Marie Cheour at the Univers

2、ity 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 her colleagues studied 45 newborn babies in the first few days of their lives.They e_posed all the infants to an hour of Fin

3、nish 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 between1.EEG2 recordings of the infants brains before and after the session showed that the newborns could not distinguish the sounds.Fift

4、een of the babies then went back with their mothers, while the rest were split into two sleep-study groups3.One group was e_posed throughout their night-time sleeping hours to the same three vowels, while the others listened to other, easier-to-distinguish vowel sounds.4When tested in the morning, a

5、nd again in the evening, the babies whod heard the tricky boundary vowel all night showed brainwave activity indicating that they could now recognise this new sound.They could identify the sound even when its pitch was changed, while none of the other babies could pick up the boundary vowel at all.C

6、heour doesnt know how babies acplish this night-time learning, but she suspects that the special ability might indicate that unlike adults, babies dont “turn off” their cerebral corte_ while they sleep.The skill probably fades in the course of the first year of life, she adds so forget the idea that

7、 you can pick up tricky French vowels as an adult just by slipping a language tape under your pillow.But while it may not help grown-ups, Cheour is hoping to use the sleeping hours to give remedial help to babies who are geically at risk of language disorders.词汇：vowel /5vaJEl/ n.元音 Finland /5finlEnd

8、/ n.芬兰 Finnish /5finiF/ adj.芬兰的，芬兰人的，芬兰语的 newborn /nju:5bC:n/ n.新生儿; adj.新生儿的 cerebral /5seribrEl/ adj.大脑的 corte_ /5kC:teks/ n.皮层remedial /ri5mi:djEl/ adj.补救的 注释:1. that sounds like something in between：that引导的是定语从句， that指代前面的 vowel。between可以理解为 between the vowel that sounds like “oo” and the vowel

9、that sounds like “ee”。2.EEG = electroencephalogram脑电图3.two sleep-study groups：两个睡觉学习小组4.easier-to-distinguish vowel sounds：较容易区分的元音练习：1.Babies can learn language even in their sleep.A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned2.An infant can recognize a lot of vowels by the time he or she is a year old.A Right B

10、 Wrong C Not mentioned3.Finnish vowels are easy to distinguish.A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned4.The three vowels mentioned in this article are all Finnish sounds.A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned5.The study shows that the infants cerebral corte_ is working while he is asleep.A Right B Wrong C Not ment

11、ioned6.If an adult wants to learn a language faster.he can put a language tape under his pillow.1.A 第二段的最后一句话是这么说的： Marie Cheour at the University of Turku in Finland suspected taht they might progress this fast because they learn language while they sleep as well as when they are awake.芬兰 Turku大学的

12、Marie Cheour怀疑他们进步这么快的原因可能是他们不仅在醒着时而且在睡觉时也在学习语言。可见，这个命题是真的。2.C 第二段有这么一个句子： By the time babies are a year old they can recognise a lot of sounds and even simple words.婴儿到了一岁时，他们可以识别许多音，甚至一些简单的词。从“许多音”是推不出“许多元音的”，反向的推导是成立的。3.C 第四段的最后一句话是这么说的： while the others listened to other, easier-to-distinguish vowel sounds.而其他的婴儿只听其他的较容易区分的元音。但“其他的较容易区分的元音”是指 “oo”和“ee”这两个元音。这两个音容易区分并不等于说所有的元音都容易区分。第 5 页 共 5 页