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【题目】A new Australian research indicates that children with a stutter (结巴) do not suffer disadvantages at school, More than ten percent of children have a stutter by the age of four but they score just as high as other children on tests designed to judge their language, thinking skills and character.

Professor Reilly’s team studied over 1600 children from Melbourne, Australia. Their mothers had been filling out regular questionnaires since their babies were eight months old and the children were judged by a range of language and behaviour tests when they reached the age of four. Reilly and her colleagues asked the parents to call the study group if their children started showing signs of stuttering. Diagnoses were confirmed by a researcher, who then visited the homes of children with a stutter every month to check on their progress.

By the age of four, 181 of the children studied had been diagnosed with a stutter. Follow-up visits to the 181 children who were judged after diagnoses showed just nine no longer had a stutter one year later. Stuttering children scored 5. 5 points higher than that of their non-stuttering children on language tests and 2. 6 points higher on the test of non-verbal intelligence. The researchers said it was possible that stuttering could improve language skills, or that stuttering could result from very fast language development among some children.

The research suggests parents of children who stutter are usually advised to wait a year before looking for treatment —which can be expensive — to see if the stutter goes away by itself, unless the children become very unhappy or stop talking.

【1】Children with a stutter at school _______.

A. are poor in their lessons

B. have normal language skills

C. work much harder than others

D. are looked down upon by others

【2】According to Reilly, parents should make a telephone to the study members when ______.

A. they wanted to turn in the questionnaires

B. their children were rude to other people

C. they wanted to seek some practical advice

D. their children had a symptom of stuttering

【3】The author shows the result of the research by _______.

A. presenting some statistics

B. offering some good examples

C. telling some interesting stories

D. performing some operations

【4】Some children may stutter probably because_______.

A. they become angry very easily

B. their intelligence is very poor

C. they don’t have any patience at all

D. their language develops very quickly

【5】It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _______.

A. it costs quite a lot to treat children with a stutter

B. it is hard for stuttering children to speak normally

C. children with a stutter should be treated in a proper way

D. stuttering children can’t be any worse off than they are already

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】A

【4】D

【5】C

【解析】

试题分析:本篇文章主要介绍了一个新的调查研究的结果。澳大利亚研究人员发现，结巴的孩子在学习上并不一定糟糕。因此，如果孩子结巴了，父母可以等上一年再寻求治疗，说不定，孩子慢慢就不结巴了。

【1】B 细节理解题。根据文章一段的A new Australian research indicates that children with a stutter (结巴) do not suffer disadvantages at school, More than ten percent of children have a stutter by the age of four but they score just as high as other children on tests designed to judge their language,可知，结巴的孩子学习并不差，和其他孩子在测试中得分一样高。故选择B，有正常的语言能力。

【2】D 细节理解题。根据文章第二段的Reilly and her colleagues asked the parents to call the study group if their children started showing signs of stuttering.可知，父母在孩子有结巴症状时打电话给研究组织。故选择D。

【3】A 写作方法题。根据第三段的内容可知，作者在陈述调查结果时用了大量的数据来进行对比和得出结论。故选择A，通过呈现数据的方式。

【4】 D 细节理解题。根据文章第三段的The researchers said it was possible that stuttering could improve language skills, or that stuttering could result from very fast language development among some children.可知，有的孩子之所以结巴是因为他们的语言发展得快。故选择D。

【5】C 推理判断题。最后一段主要是研究人员给父母的意见，如果孩子结巴了，要先等上一年看看情况如何，故选择C，意为结巴的孩子要正确地治疗。