【Direction】
In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank follwing the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making choices. Each choice in the bank is identificated by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answere Sheet2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
【Questions】
In families with two working parents, fathers may have more impact on a
child's language development than mothers, a new study suggests.
Researchers __1__ 92 families from 11 child care centers before their
children were a year old, interviewing each to establish income, level of
education and child care arrangements. Overall, it was a group of well-educated
middle-class families, with married parents both living in the home.
When the children were 2, researchers videotaped them at home in free-play
sessions with both parents, __2__ all of their speech. The study will appear in
the November issue of The Journal of Applied Development of Psychology.
The scientists measured the __3__ number of utterances (話語) of the parents,
the number of diffe-rent words they used, the complexity of their sentences and
other __4__ of their speech. On average, fathers spoke less than mothers did,
but they did not differ in the length of utterances or proportion of questions
asked.
Finally, the researchers __5__ the children's speech at age 3, using a
standardized language test. The only predictors of high scores on the test were
the mother's level of education, the __6__ of child care and the number of
different words the father used.
The researchers are __7__ why the father's speech, and not the mother's,
had an effect.
"It's well __8__ that the mother's language does have an impact," said
Nadya Pancsofar, the lead author of the study. It could be that the
high-functioning mothers in the study had __9__ had a strong influence on their
children's speech development, Ms. Pancsofar said, "or it may be that mothers
are __10__ in a way we didn't measure in the study."
[A] already
[B] analyzed
[C] aspects
[D] characters
[E] contributing
[F] describing
[G] established
[H] quality
[I] quoted
[J] recording
[K] recruited
[L] total
[M] unconscious
[N] unsure
[O] yet
【參考答案】
1 K 2 J 3 L 4 C 5 B
6 H 7 N 8 G 9 A 10 E
【技巧點撥】
利用不定冠詞(a/an)判斷考點是否為母音開頭，縮小選擇範圍
Sample: Husband and children now do some of these jobs, a ____ that has
changed the target market for many products.
(scale, potential, gap, extreme, purchase, situation)
