2006年12月真题复合式听写 - 英语听力
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Adults are getting smarter about how smart babies are
成人越来越了解婴儿的聪明程度
Not long ago
不久之前
Researchers learned that four-day-olds could understand
研究者们发现四天大的婴儿能够理解
Addition and subtraction
加法和减法
Now
现在
British research psychologist Graham Schafer has discovered
英国研究心理学家Graham Schafer发现
That infants can learn words for
婴儿在会说话之前就能学习
Uncommon things long before they can speak
不常见事物的名称
He found that nine-month-old infants could be taught
他发现九个月大的婴儿可以通过反复的展示和讲解
Through repeated show-and-tell
来识别对他们来说陌生的物体名称
To recognize the names of objects that were foreign to them
这一结果在某种程度上挑战了以往的观点
A result that challenges in some ways the received
即除了学习识别日常生活中常见的事物外
Wisdom that
孩子们直到两岁才开始建立词汇量
Apart from learning to identify things common to their daily lives
这并不是什么秘密
Children don't begin to build vocabulary until well into their second year
孩子们学习单词
It's no secret that children learn words
这是众所周知的事实
But the words they tend to know are
但他们所知道的词汇通常是
Words linked to specific situations in the home
与家庭中特定情境相关的词汇
Explains Schafer
谢弗解释道
This is the first demonstration that we can choose what
这是我们首次证明可以选择孩子们
Words the children will learn and that they can respond
学习的词汇,并且他们能够
To them with an unfamiliar voice giving instructions in an unfamiliar setting
在陌生环境中通过陌生声音的指示作出反应
Figuring out how humans acquire language may shed light
探索人类如何习得语言可能会揭示
On why some children learn to read and write later than others
关于为什么一些孩子比其他孩子晚学会读写的原因
Schafer says
舍费尔说
And could lead to better treatments for develop mental problems
这可能有助于更好地治疗发展性问题
What's more
更重要的是
The study of language acquisition offers direct insight into how humans learn
对语言习得的研究直接洞察了人类是如何学习的
Language is a test case for human cognitive development
语言是人类认知发展的测试案例
Says Schafer
舍费尔说
But parents eager to teach their infants should take note
但急于教婴儿的父母应该注意
Even without being taught new words
即使没有特意教授新词
A control group caught up with
对照组婴儿也在几个月内
The other infants within a few months
赶上了其他婴儿
This is not about advancing development
这并不是关于促进发展
He says
他说
It's just about what children can do at an
这只是关于孩子们在比教育者通常认为的更早的年龄
Earlier age than what educators have often thought
能够做到的事情