Question

A new study says electronic toys are not helping babies learn.

"Even if companies are marketing them as educational, they're not teaching the babies anything at this time," said Anna Sosa the study's author.

Researchers listened to audio(声音的) recordings of parents playing with their babies aged 10 months to 16 months. The researchers compared the experiences when the children played with electronic toys, traditional toys such as blocks, or when the children looked at books. What they found is that parents talked less with their babies when the babies played with electronic toys.

Why is this important? Research shows that how quickly children develop language is often based on what they hear from parents. When the infants played with electronic toys, parents said little to their children. But with traditional toys, such as blocks, parents shared the names and descriptions of the animals, colors and shapes as their children played. There was even more information given by parents as their babies looked at the pictures in books.

Of course, there is no need for parents to throw out electronic toys, but they should look at their infants’ play with such toys as entertainment, not a learning experience.

Toy Industry Association spokeswoman Adrienne Appell responded to the study. She said it is important that parents make time to play with their children. "Playing is a way that kids can learn so much, not only cognitive(认知的) skills, but social and developmental skills," she said. She added that play should be balanced, including time for just "make believe" activities, as well as traditional and electronic toys.

1.What’s Anna Sosa’s attitude towards companies claiming that their toys are educational?

A. supportive    B. indifferent    C. uninterested    D. doubtful

2.We can learn from the text that babies in the research ________.

A. liked traditional toys better than electronic toys

B. interact less with their parents when playing with electronic toys

C. talked little with their parents when playing with electronic toys

D. listened to audio recordings of their parents

3.Children develop language more quickly when their parents ________.

A. read them picture books often    B. teach them how to speak

C. buy them a lot of toys    D. throw away their electronic toys

4.According to Adrienne Appell, playing ________.

A. can’t take the place of learning

B. shouldn’t take most of children’s time

C. is good to children’s overall development

D. can’t develop children’s cognitive skills

Answer

1.D

2.B

3.A

4.C

【解析】本文是一篇说明文，介绍了研究发现所谓有教育意义的玩具并不能让孩子学到东西，而父母陪孩子读故事书以及玩耍更有利于孩子的发展。

1.观点态度题。根据第二段中的“Even if companies are marketing them as educational, they're not teaching the babies anything at this time”可知，Anna Sosa认为所谓的教育性的电子玩具并没有教孩子任何东西，由此可见Anna Sosa对电子玩具的态度是怀疑的，故D项正确。

2.细节理解题。根据第三段中的“What they found is that parents talked less with their babies when the babies played with electronic toys.”可知，孩子玩电子玩具的时候与父母的交流更少，故B项正确。

3.推理判断题。根据第四段中的“There was even more information given by parents as their babies looked at the pictures in books.”可知，父母在陪孩子读故事书时会给予更多的信息，从而会更有利于孩子发展语言能力，故A项正确。

4.推理判断题。根据最后一段中的“Playing is a way that kids can learn so much, not only cognitive skills, but social and developmental skills,”可知，玩耍不仅可以帮助孩子学习认知技能，还可以让他们学习社交和发展技能，对孩子的全面发展更有好处，故C项正确。