题目内容
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. doubtful
C. uninterested D. indifferent
2. We can learn from the text that babies in the research __________.
A. interact less with their parents when playing with electronic toys
B. liked traditional toys better than 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. buy them a lot of toys
B. teach them how to speak
C. read them picture books often
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. can’t develop children’s cognitive skills
D. is good to children’s overall development
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