新六级听力.ppt

分专题讲解（复合式听写） 5、实战演练 Test 18—P55—P123 Adults are getting smarter about how smart babies are. Not long ago, researches learned that four day olds could understand addition and subtraction. Now, British research psychologist Gram Shaffer has discovered that infants can learn words or uncommon things long before they can speak. He found that nine month old infants could be taught through repeated show and tell to recognize the names of objects that were foreign 分专题讲解（复合式听写） to them, a result that challenges in some ways, the received wisdom that apart from learning to identify things common to their daily lives, children don’t being to build vocabulary until well into their second year. “It’s no secret that children learn words, but the words they tend to know are linked to specific situations in the home,” explains Shaffer. This is the first demonstration that we can choose what words the children will learn and that they can respond to them with an unfamiliar voice giving instructions in an unfamiliar setting. 分专题讲解（复合式听写） “Figuring out how human acquire language may shed light on why some children learn to read and write later than others,” Shaffer says, “and could lead to better treatments for developed mental problems.” What’s more, the study of language acquisition offers direct insight into how humans learn. “Language is a test case for human cognitive development,” says Shaffer, “but parents eager to teach their infants should take note. Even without being taught new words a control group caught up with the other infants within a few 分专题讲解（复合式听写） months.” This is not about advancing development, he says, it’s just about what children can do at an earlier age than what educators have often thought. 分专题讲解（复合式听写） Test 20—P64—P133 If you are like most people, you’ve indulged in fake listening many times. You go to history class, sitting in the third row, and look squarely