2022年译林版高考英语总复习第二部分核心考点培优训练十四 选择性必修第一册Unit 2 The universal language.docVIP

PAGE 7 - 十四　选择性必修 第一册 Unit 2　The universal language (限时60分钟) Ⅰ.阅读理解 A In 2009, Dr. Kathleen Wermke, who studies babies’ first sounds, and her colleagues made headlines with a study showing that French and German newborns produce distinctly different “cry sounds”. German newborns produce more cries that fall from a higher to a lower pitch, imitating (模仿) the falling intonation (语调) of the German language, while French babies tend to cry with the rising intonation of French. At this age, babies experiment with a wide variety of sounds, and can learn any language. But they are already influe