each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use
any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
In families with two working parents, fathers may have more impact on a child’s
language development than mothers, a new study suggests.
Researchers ___47___ 92 families form 11 child care centers before their
children were a year old, interviewing each to establish income, level of education
and child care arrangements. Overall, it was a group of well-class families, with
married parents both living in the home.
When the children were 2, researchers videotaped them at home in free-play
all of their speech. The study will appear in the
November issue of The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
The scientists measured the ___49___ number of utterance (话语) of the parents,
the number of different words they used, the complexity of their sentences and other did not differ in the length of utterances or proportion of questions asked.
Finally, the researchers ___51___ the children’s speech at age 3, using a
standardized language test. The only predictors of high scores on the test were the
mother’words the father used.
The researchers are ___53___ why the father’s speech, and not the mother’s, had
an effect.
“It’s well ___54___ that the mother’s language does have an impact,” said
Nadya Pancsofar, the lead author of the study. It could be that the high-functioning ’s speech
development, Ms. Pancsofar said, “or it may be that mothers arewe didn’t measure in the study.”
注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。
A) already B) analyzed C) aspects D) characters E) contributing F) describing G) established H) quality
I) quoted J) recording K) recruited L) total
M) unconscious N) unsure O) yet
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some
questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A),