阅读理解 By adopting a few simple techniques, parents who read to their children can greatly increase their children''s language development. It is surprising but true. How parents talk to their children makes a big difference in the children''s language development. If a parent encourages the child to actively respond to what the parent is reading, the child''s language skills increase. A study was done with 30 three-year-old children and their parents. Half of the children participated in the experimental study; the other half acted as the control group. In the experimental group, the parents were given a two-hour training session in which they were taught to ask open-ended questions rather than yes-or-no questions. For example, the parent should ask, "What is the doggie doing?" rather than "Is the doggie running away?" The parents in the experimental group were also instructed in how to help children find answers, how to suggest alternative possibilities and how to praise correct answers. At the beginning of the study, the children did not differ in measures of language development, but at the end of one month, the children in the experimental group showed 5.5 months ahead of the control group on a test of verbal expression and vocabulary. Nine months later, the children in the experimental group still showed an advance of 6 months over the children in the control group.

单选题 Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】本题考查的是考生对细节的把握。答案在第一段：“By adopting a few simple techniques，parents who read to their children can greatly increase their children's language development．(父母给孩子读书的时候，通过采用一些简单的方法可以提高孩子的语言能力。)，因此可以得出这样的结论：“语言能力可以通过适当的方法来提高。”D正确

单选题 What does "it" in line 2 can most probably be replaced by?

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】本题考查的是考生对具体词汇及结构的把握。根据上文第一句和第三句中的children's language development部分，可以看出it指父母能提高孩子的语言能力。代词的指代内容一般应从该句的上下句中找。

单选题 According to the author, which of the following questions is the best type to ask children about?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】本题考查的是考生对细节的把握。答案在第二段：“In the experimental group，the parents were given A two-hour training session in which they were taught to ask open-ended quest-tins rather than yes-or-no questions．(在进行实验的这一组里，给家长进行两小时的培训，让他们学会向孩子们提一些自由回答不能用是或不是回答的问题。)”再根据下文提问的举例可看出家长提出的最好的问题应该是：“What animals do you like?(你喜欢什么样的动物?)”C为正确答案。

单选题 The difference between the control group and the experimental group was_________.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】本题考查的是考生对细节的把握。答案在第二段“In the experimental group，the parents were given a two-hour training session”(在进行实验的这一组里，给家长进行两小时的培训)，文章的调查研究中把孩子及其家长分成两组，显然区别在于实验组里的家长接受了培训。

单选题 The best conclusion we can draw from the passage is that_________.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】本题是推断题，也是考查对文章细节的把握。答案在第一段最后一句话。“If a parent encourages the child to actively respond to what the parent is reading，the child's language skills increase．(如果家长鼓励孩子们对于家长给他们读的书的内容做出积极的反应，那么孩子们的语言能力就会提高。)”因此C为正确答案。