Question

Young children whose mothers talk with them more frequently and in more detail about people’s thoughts and feelings tend to be better at taking another person’s perspective（观点）than other children of the same age.
That’s what researchers from the University of Western Australia found in a new study published in the journal Child Development.
“Parents who frequently put themselves in someone else’s shoes in conversations with their children make it more likely their children will be able to do the same,” said lead author Brad Farrant.
Researchers of the UWA’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research looked at the influence of how parents interact with their children to learn more about how people develop the ability to take another’s perspective.
The two-year study involved more than 120 Australian children aged between four and six, including children with typically developing language and others delayed in language acquisition（习得）.
The children completed tasks which were designed to assess their language skills, ability to infer others’ beliefs and use these to predict others’ behavior, and their ability to shift flexibly between different perspectives.
Among children with typically developing language, the researchers found that mothers who talked more often and in greater detail about people’s thoughts and feelings — commenting on how another person might react to a particular situation as well as their own feelings about the topic — had children with better language skills and better perspective-taking skills.
Children with delayed language acquisition were also delayed in their development of perspective-taking skills. This displays the role played by language as children develop the ability to take another’s perspective.
“Solving the many challenges that the world faces today requires us all to get better at taking the perspective of other people,” said Brad Farrant.
【小题1】According to the text, to help children gain better perspective-taking skills, parents should __________.

A．give their children more chances to express themselves

B．talk more with their children about people’s feelings

C．encourage their children to guess other people’s thoughts

D．spend more time playing with their children

【小题2】Which of the following is TRUE about the study?

A．Over one hundred American children took part in it.

B．All the children had delayed in language acquisition.

C．The children in the study were around five years old.

D．Mothers helped their children to complete the tasks.

【小题3】Which have an effect on the development of children’s perspective-taking skills?

A．The surrounding environments.	B．Mother’s perspectives.
C．Personal characters.	D．Language skills.

【小题4】In the last paragraph, Brad Farrant __________.

A．stressed the importance of perspective-taking skills

B．expressed his concern about the world’s challenges

C．showed how to take the perspective of other people

D．explained why other people’s opinions are important

【小题5】According to the text, we can learn __________.

A．parents should talk to their children frequently no matter how old their children are

B．it was Brad Farrant who wrote the study in Child Development herself

C．the only way to improve language skill is talking to children more often

D．parents who are always thinking about others will help their children do the same way

Answer 1

【小题1】B
【小题2】C
【小题3】D
【小题4】A
【小题5】D

解析试题分析：本文讲述了父母亲经常和孩子们讲述别人的观点和想法的孩子们能够有更好的理解能力，文章通过一份研究报告进行了阐述说明。
【小题1】细节题。从Young children whose mothers talk with them more frequently and in more detail about people’s thoughts and feelings tend to be better at taking another person’s perspective（观点）than other children of the same age.可知父母亲应该经常和孩子们谈论人们的感情，故选B
【小题2】细节题。从文章The two-year study involved more than 120 Australian children aged between four and six,可知，参加研究的孩子们的年龄大概在5岁左右，故选C
【小题3】细节题。从This displays the role played by language as children develop the ability to take another’s perspective.可知语言技能对孩子们的理解能力很重要，故选D
【小题4】推断题。从“Solving the many challenges that the world faces today requires us all to get better at taking the perspective of other people,” said Brad Farrant.
可知信息的理解能力是非常重要的，故选A
【小题5】推断题。从文章Parents who frequently put themselves in someone else’s shoes in conversations with their children make it more likely their children will be able to do the same,可知总是想着别人的父母亲，他们的孩子也会这样做，put oneself in sb's shoes设身处地，故选D
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