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【題目】A new Australian research indicates that children with a stutter (結(jié)巴) do not suffer disadvantages at school, More than ten percent of children have a stutter by the age of four but they score just as high as other children on tests designed to judge their language, thinking skills and character.

Professor Reilly’s team studied over 1600 children from Melbourne, Australia. Their mothers had been filling out regular questionnaires since their babies were eight months old and the children were judged by a range of language and behaviour tests when they reached the age of four. Reilly and her colleagues asked the parents to call the study group if their children started showing signs of stuttering. Diagnoses were confirmed by a researcher, who then visited the homes of children with a stutter every month to check on their progress.

By the age of four, 181 of the children studied had been diagnosed with a stutter. Follow-up visits to the 181 children who were judged after diagnoses showed just nine no longer had a stutter one year later. Stuttering children scored 5. 5 points higher than that of their non-stuttering children on language tests and 2. 6 points higher on the test of non-verbal intelligence. The researchers said it was possible that stuttering could improve language skills, or that stuttering could result from very fast language development among some children.

The research suggests parents of children who stutter are usually advised to wait a year before looking for treatment —which can be expensive — to see if the stutter goes away by itself, unless the children become very unhappy or stop talking.

【1】Children with a stutter at school _______.

A. are poor in their lessons

B. have normal language skills

C. work much harder than others

D. are looked down upon by others

【2】According to Reilly, parents should make a telephone to the study members when ______.

A. they wanted to turn in the questionnaires

B. their children were rude to other people

C. they wanted to seek some practical advice

D. their children had a symptom of stuttering

【3】The author shows the result of the research by _______.

A. presenting some statistics

B. offering some good examples

C. telling some interesting stories

D. performing some operations

【4】Some children may stutter probably because_______.

A. they become angry very easily

B. their intelligence is very poor

C. they don’t have any patience at all

D. their language develops very quickly

【5】It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _______.

A. it costs quite a lot to treat children with a stutter

B. it is hard for stuttering children to speak normally

C. children with a stutter should be treated in a proper way

D. stuttering children can’t be any worse off than they are already

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】A

【4】D

【5】C

【解析】

試題分析:本篇文章主要介紹了一個新的調(diào)查研究的結(jié)果。澳大利亞研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，結(jié)巴的孩子在學(xué)習(xí)上并不一定糟糕。因此，如果孩子結(jié)巴了，父母可以等上一年再尋求治療，說不定，孩子慢慢就不結(jié)巴了。

【1】B 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章一段的A new Australian research indicates that children with a stutter (結(jié)巴) do not suffer disadvantages at school, More than ten percent of children have a stutter by the age of four but they score just as high as other children on tests designed to judge their language,可知，結(jié)巴的孩子學(xué)習(xí)并不差，和其他孩子在測試中得分一樣高。故選擇B，有正常的語言能力。

【2】D 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段的Reilly and her colleagues asked the parents to call the study group if their children started showing signs of stuttering.可知，父母在孩子有結(jié)巴癥狀時打電話給研究組織。故選擇D。

【3】A 寫作方法題。根據(jù)第三段的內(nèi)容可知，作者在陳述調(diào)查結(jié)果時用了大量的數(shù)據(jù)來進行對比和得出結(jié)論。故選擇A，通過呈現(xiàn)數(shù)據(jù)的方式。

【4】 D 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段的The researchers said it was possible that stuttering could improve language skills, or that stuttering could result from very fast language development among some children.可知，有的孩子之所以結(jié)巴是因為他們的語言發(fā)展得快。故選擇D。

【5】C 推理判斷題。最后一段主要是研究人員給父母的意見，如果孩子結(jié)巴了，要先等上一年看看情況如何，故選擇C，意為結(jié)巴的孩子要正確地治療。