首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
A、To contrast the reactions of babies to human and nonhuman sounds. B、To give examples of sounds that will cause a baby to cry.
A、To contrast the reactions of babies to human and nonhuman sounds. B、To give examples of sounds that will cause a baby to cry.
admin
2022-08-27
33
问题
Long before they can actually speak, babies pay special attention to the speech they hear around them. Within the first month of their lives, babies’ responses to the sound of the human voice will be different from their responses to other sorts of sounds. They will stop crying when they hear a person talking, but not if they hear a bell rings. At first, the sounds that an infant notices might be only those words that receive the heaviest emphasis and that often occur at the ends of sentences. By the time they are six or seven weeks old, babies can detect the difference between the rising and falling of tones. Very soon, these differences in adults’ stress and tones can influence babies’ emotional states and behavior. Long before they develop actual language comprehension, babies can sense when an adult is cheerful or angry, attempting to do or stop doing something, and so on, merely based on the rate, volume, and melody of adults’ speech.
Adults make it as easy as they can for babies to pick up a language by exaggerating such characteristics. One researcher observed babies and their mothers in six diverse cultures and found that, in all six languages, the mothers used simplified grammar, short sentences, and transformed certain sounds into baby talk. Other investigators have found that when mothers talk to babies who are only a few months old, they often raise their volume, and speak slowly. They also exaggerate their facial expressions, and emphasize certain words.
More significant for language development than their response to general intonation is observation that tiny babies can make relatively fine distinctions between speech sounds. In other words, babies enter the world with the ability to make precisely those perceptual discriminations that are necessary if they are to acquire aural language.
Babies obviously derive pleasure from sound input, too: at even as young as nine months they will listen to songs or stories, although the words themselves are beyond their understanding. For babies, language is a sensory-motor delight rather than the route to dull meaning that it often is for adults.
19. What does the talk mainly discuss?
20. Why does the speaker mention the ringing of a bell?
21. What can we learn from the findings of babies and their mothers in six diverse cultures?
22. According to the talk, why do babies listen to songs and stories, even though they cannot understand them?
选项
A、To contrast the reactions of babies to human and nonhuman sounds.
B、To give examples of sounds that will cause a baby to cry.
C、To explain how babies distinguish between different nonhuman sounds.
D、To give examples of typical toys that babies do not like.
答案
A
解析
讲话者在提到“铃声”时指出:“听到人说话时,他们(婴儿)会停止哭闹,但听到铃声时则不会。”这说明讲话者在用铃声的例子对比婴儿对于人声(人说话时)和非人声(铃声)的不同反应,所以答案为A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/bEvD777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
积极推动我国能源生产和消费革命我们必须从国家发展和安全的战略高度,审时度势,借势而为,找到顺应能源大势之道。第一,推动能源消费革命,抑制不合理能源消费。坚决控制能源消费总量,有效落实节能优先方针,把节能贯穿于经济社会发展全过程和各领域,坚定调整产
Payandproductivity,itisgenerallyassumed,shouldberelated.Buttherelationshipseemstoweaken【C1】________peoplegetold
WhendidMr.Schallerbecomeinterestedinanimals?
Agingbabyboomersaredeterminedtofighttheagingprocess.Theyspendmillionsofdollarsayearon【C1】________theyperceive
InFrance,allschoolsfollowthesamebasiccurriculum.
Inperiodofthesummerholidaystherewillbearevisedschedule(修改过的时刻表)ofser-vicesforthestudents.Changesfordining-ro
假定你是李明,你的英国朋友Dave与你在同一个城市工作。你去邀请他和你一起参观一个中国画展。他不在,请你根据以下要点给他写个留言条。要点:1.介绍画展中国画历代名画展展期:本月8日~18日地点:艺
Thevitaminsnecessaryforahealthybodyarenormallysuppliedbyagoodmixeddiet(饮食),includingavarietyoffruitsandgree
Therearemanywaysinwhichthephenomenaoflanguageandcultureareintimatelyrelated.Allphenomenaareuniquetohumansa
随机试题
某市238名健康人发汞值资料(表1),为描述其离散趋势,宜采用
良性肿瘤对机体影响最大的因素是()
A.糖苷键B.疏水堆积力C.氢键D.3',5'-磷酸二酯键E.β-折叠维持DNA双链结构横向稳定性的是
A.潜在的精神健康增强B.与血红蛋白降低有关C.有受伤的危险D.腹胀、腹痛E.焦虑属于健康的护理诊断的是()。
对纳税人偷税的,由税务机关追缴其不缴或者少缴的税款、滞纳金,并处不缴或者少缴的税款()以上()倍以下的罚款;构成犯罪的,依法追究刑事责任
作业按其层次分类,可以分为单位作业、产品作业和支持作业三类。()
依法治国是现代社会的重要标志。()
孟子
InSecondNature,NobelPrize-winningneuroscientistGeraldEdelmanarguesthatthebrainandmindareunified,buthehaslittl
AnApproachtoFactualWritingI.Thedemandsofdifferingnonfictiontext—Muchoftheresearchintothedevelopmentofchildr
最新回复
(
0
)