READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND MARK THE LETTER A, B, C, OR D ON...

Câu 2. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet toindicate the correct answer to each of the questions. Long before they can actually speak, babies pay special attention to the speech they hear aroundthem. Within the first month of their lives, babies' responses to the sound of the human voice will be differentfrom their responses to other sorts of auditory stimuli. They will stop crying when they hear a person talking,but not if they hear a bell or the sound of a rattle. At first, the sounds that an infant notices might be onlythose words that receive the heaviest emphasis and that often occur at the ends of utterances. By the timethey are six or seven weeks old, babies can detect the difference between syllables pronounced with risingand falling inflections. Very soon, these differences in adult stress and intonation can influence babies'emotional states and behavior. Long before they develop actual language comprehension, babies can sensewhen an adult is playful or angry, attempting to initiate or terminate new behavior, and so on, merely on thebasis of cues such as the rate, volume, and melody of adult speech.Adults make it as easy as they can for babies to pick up a language by exaggerating such cues.One researcher observed babies and their mothers in six diverse cultures and found that, in all six languages,the mothers used simplified syntax, short utterances and nonsense sounds, and transformed certain soundsinto baby talk. Other investigators have noted that when mothers talk to babies who are only a few monthsold, they exaggerate the pitch, loudness, and intensity of their words. They also exaggerate their facialexpressions, hold vowels longer, and emphasize certain words.More significant for language development than their response to general intonation is observationthat tiny babies can make relatively fine distinctions between speech sounds. In other words, babies enter theworld with the ability to make precisely those perceptual discriminations that are necessary if they are toacquire aural language.Babies obviously derive pleasure from sound input, too: even as young as nine months they willlisten to songs or stories, although the words themselves are beyond their understanding. For babies,language is a sensory-motor delight rather than the route to prosaic meaning that it often is for adults.Question 8: Which of the following can be inferred about the findings described in paragraph 2?A. Babies ignore facial expressions in comprehending aural language.B. Mothers from different cultures speak to their babies in similar ways.C. Babies who are exposed to more than one language can speak earlier than babies exposed to a singlelanguage.D. The mothers observed by the researchers were consciously teaching their babies to speak.Question 9: According to the author, why do babies listen to songs and stories, even though they cannotunderstand them?A. They can remember them easily. B. They focus on the meaning of their parents' word.C. They enjoy the sound. D. They understand the rhythm. Question 10: The passage mentions all of the followings as the ways adults modify their speech whentalking to babies EXCEPT ______________.A. speaking with shorter sentences B. giving all words equal emphasis C. using meaningless sounds D. speaking more loudly than normal Question 11: The word "diverse" is closest in meaning to ______________.A. different B. surrounding C. stimulating D. divided Question 12: The word "They" refers to ______________.A. words B. mothers C. investigators D. babiesQuestion 13: What does the passage mainly discuss?A. The differences between a baby's and an adult's ability to comprehend languageB. How babies perceive and respond to the human voice in their earliest stages of language developmentC. The response of babies to sounds other than the human voiceD. How babies differentiate between the sound of the human voice and other soundsQuestion 14: The word "emphasize" is closest in meaning to ______________.A. stress B. leave out C. explain D. repeat Question 15: What point does the author make to illustrate that babies are born with the ability to acquirelanguage?A. Babies exaggerate their own sounds and expressions.B. Babies begin to understand words in songs.C. Babies notice even minor differences between speech sounds.D. Babies are more sensitive to sounds than are adults.Hướng dẫn & Bình luậnnhulan: