单选题 In 1963 an American physiotherapist (物理治疗师) Glenn Doman wrote a best selling book called How to Teach Your Baby to Read. Now translated into 17 languages, this book arose from his work with brain damaged children in Pennsylvania. Doman and his team of specialists had wondered why brain-injured children didn't improve with medical treatment. Then they realized that conventional methods of treatment only relieved the symptoms, not the problem, which of course was the brain itself. So they developed a new approach.
'All we do for all children here is to give them visual, auditory and touchable stimulation with increased frequency, intensity and duration, in recognition of the orderly way in which the brain grows,' says Doman. 'The result was that by 1960 we had hundreds of severely brain-injured two-year-olds who could read and understand.'
The team had discovered that even children who had half their brains removed could, by stimulation, achieve higher IQs than the average normal child.
Then the team began to think if such amazing results could be achieved with brain-damaged children, what would happen if the same treatment were given to normal children. So eight years ago the Better Baby Institute was opened for the benefit of normal children. The same stimulating enriched environment was provided, and, by the time the children left, around seven years old, they could generally speak and read three foreign languages, play a musical instrument, read three full length books a week and do all the other things that a so-called 'normal' child could do.
In Doman's view, the child's passion to learn during the years up to six must be fed. He believes that, like muscles, the brain develops with use, especially so in those first few years.
Nowadays, parents come from all over the world to Pennsylvania to see and learn from the work of Doman and his team; they want to discover how they can fulfill their roles as nature teachers, by using their love, understanding and instincts for the benefit of their children. For in the words of Doman, 'Every child born has a greater potential intelligence than Leonardo da Vinci used.'

(选自New Scientist)

单选题 In Glenn Doman's research, he discovered that brain-damaged children improved when they ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】由第二段可知，脑损伤儿童得到正确的治疗后可获得改善，因此C正确。 A“学会阅读和理解”，文章提到对孩子要用视觉、听觉和触觉的刺激来改善阅读和理解能力，并没有提到教孩子阅读，因此A错误；文章第四段是说给正常的孩子以同样的刺激方法，孩子会在离校时学会几门语言，而不是说脑损伤儿童的改善问题，故B“可以讲好几种语言”不正确；根据第一段第四句可知，他们发现医学治疗不管用，只是缓解了症状，但没有解决问题，因此D“获得治疗相关病症的药品”不正确。

单选题 Doman's new approach was to ______.

单选题 From the passage, we can assume that ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】根据第二段最后一句可知，脑损伤的孩子可以通过进行刺激试验，获得阅读能力，故选D“脑损伤孩子能克服自己的残疾”。 A“大多数两岁的正常孩子能读书”，属无中生有；根据第三段可知，文中说的是一半大脑被切除的儿童通过刺激也能获得甚至比正常儿童高的IQs，因此B“只有半边大脑的孩子更聪明”是对原文的曲解；C“脑损伤的孩子有较高的智商”，文中说到脑损伤的儿童经过治疗，也可获得与正常人一样的阅读能力，并没有指出脑损伤的孩子本身有较高的智商，所以C也错误。

单选题 At the Better Baby Institute, ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】第四段讲到同样的方法适用于正常孩子。到七岁之后，孩子离开这个儿童院时，他们一般都能用三种语言来对话和阅读，并会演奏乐器，可以一星期读完三本书，做所谓的正常孩子所能做的其他一切事情，这一切都对“正常”的成长观点提出了挑战，所以A正确。 B“儿童需七年发育正常”，属无中生有；C“实现了正常儿童的非自然成长”，其中“非自然成长”意思含糊，不明确，故C错误；D“正常儿童在异常标准率上成长”说法不正确，文中没有提及标准率问题。

单选题 Parents come to the Institute because they want ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】最后一段中提到，今天，世界各地的父母来到宾夕法尼亚州参观和学习杜曼及其小组的工作。他们想发现他们如何运用其爱心、理解和本能使孩子受益，完成作为自然老师的职能，由此可知C为正确答案。根据最后一段最后一句所说的是所有的孩子在出生时都具有达·芬奇的智商，但不能因此推出A“要他们的孩子成为和达·芬奇一样的天才”；B“要学习如何教他们的孩子学习自然”、D“要他们的孩子发展爱和理解的本能”，这两项均是对最后一段的曲解。