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热点话题　精深阅读(四) 主题语境：人与社会——品味科学，扩大视野，提升智力水平 (2020·全国Ⅱ，B) Some parents will buy any high-tech toy if they think it will help their child，but researchers said puzzles help children with math-related skills. Psychologist Susan Levine，an expert on mathematics development in young children at the University of Chicago，found children who play with puzzles between ages 2 and 4 later develop better spatial skills.Puzzle play was found to be a significant predictor of cognition(认知) after controlling for differences in parents’ income，education and the amount of parent talk，Levine said. The researchers analyzed video recordings of 53 child-parent pairs during everyday activities at home and found children who play with puzzles between 26 and 46 months of age have better spatial skills when assessed at 54 months of age. “The children who played with puzzles performed better than those who did not，on tasks that assessed their ability to rotate(旋转) and translate shapes，” Levine said in a statement. The parents were asked to interact with their children as they normally would，and about half of the children in the study played with puzzles at one time.Higher-income parents tended to have children play with puzzles more frequently，and both boys and girls who played with puzzles had better spatial skills.However，boys tended to play with more complex puzzles than girls，and the parents of boys provided more spatial language and were more active during puzzle play than the parents of girls. The findings were published in the journal Developmental Science. 语篇解读　本文是一篇说明文?研究报告?。文章介绍了芝加哥大学一位教授的研究成果：在2－4岁期间玩拼图的孩子以后会形成更好的空间认知能力，表现出更好的空间感。收入较高家庭的孩子接触拼图的时间更长，而且男孩比女孩玩的拼图更加复杂。 1．In which aspect do children benefit from puzzle play? A．Building confidence. B．Developing spatial skills. C．Learning self-control. D．Gaining high-tech knowledge. 答案　B 解析　细节理解题。根据第二段中的“...children who play with puzzles between ages 2 and 4 later develop better spatial skills.”可知，玩拼图的孩子空间技能更好。故选B项。 2．What did Levine take into