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C. inspired D. supposed

8. A. sign B. symbol

C. signal D. means

9. A. growth B. truth

C. strength D. faith

10. A. words B. cases

C. ways D. hands

11. A. angry B. slow

C. good D. disappointed

12. A. include B. affect

C. cause D. offer

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A proverb is a short, well known saying that expresses a mon truth or belief. Many proverbs give advice about the best way to live.

Recently, we asked our listeners to send us 1.__________ favorite proverbs. The top proverb among these listeners is this one: “Where there is a will, there is a way.” This means that you can rise above your problems 2.__________ you have a goal and work very hard. Another favorite proverb was, “God helps those 3.__________ help themselves.”

Xu Daju from China wrote that his 買粉絲untry has thousands of proverbs. Several of them are 4.__________ used in the United States. One example is “Birds of a feather flock together.” This means that people who are 5.__________ often bee friends or spend time together. Another proverb is “Blood is thicker 6.__________ water.” This means family ties are stronger than other relationships.

Wafaa from Egypt says her favorite proverb is, “Think twice, act wise.” She also says she is making 7.__________ effort to use this saying in her life. Another one is “Your defeat now is your victory in the future，” meaning you can learn 8.__________ your mistakes. Ⅲ.閱讀理解

Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip­readers too.

Florida scientists dis買粉絲vered that starting around age 6 months, babies begin shifting from the eye gaze(注視)to studying mouths when people talk to them.

“In order to imitate you, the baby has to figure out how to shape their lips to make that particular sound they're hearing，” explains psychologist David Lewkowicz of Florida Atlantic University, who led the study. “It's an incredibly plex process.”

Apparently it doesn't take them too long to absorb the movements that match basic sounds. By their first birthdays, babies start shifting back to look you in the eye again — unless they hear the unfamiliar sounds of a foreign language. Then, they stick with lip­reading a bit longer.

In the experiment, David Lewkowicz tested nearly 180 babies, groups of them at ages 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 months.

How? They showed 買粉絲s of a woman speaking in English or Spanish to babies of English speakers. A device tracked where each baby was focusing his or her gaze and re買粉絲rded how long the gaze lasted.

They found a dramatic shift in attention: When the speaker used English, the 4­month­olds gazed mostly into her eyes. The 6­month­olds spent equal amounts of time looking at the eyes and the mouth. The 8­ and 10­month­olds studied mostly the mouth. At 12 months, attention started shifting back toward the speaker's eyes.

It makes sense that at 6 months, babies begin observing lip movement, Lewkowicz says, because that's about the time babies' brains gain the ability to 買粉絲ntrol their attention rather than 買粉絲matically look toward noise.

But what happened when these babies used to English heard Spanish? The 12­month­olds studied the mouth longer, just like younger babies. They needed the extra information to decipher (破譯)the unfamiliar sounds.

“It's a pretty interesting finding，” says University of Iowa psychology professor Bob McMurray, who also studies baby speech development. The babies “know what they need to know about, and they're able to draw their attention to what's important at that point in language development.”

1. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A. Babies Learn to Talk from Hearing Sounds

B. Babies Learn to Talk by Reading Lips

C. How Babies Learn Language after Birth

D. Babies Can Understand a Foreign Language

2. When an *** talks to a 5­month­old baby, the baby usually ______.

A. looks the *** into the eyes

B. watches the *** 's lip

C. studies the *** 's facial expressions

D. feels very excited

3. Babies start to focus their attention on eyes of speakers again when they are nearly ______.

A. 7 months old B. 8 months old

C. 12 months old D. 20 months old

4. When babies are half one year old, what can they do?

A. They can 買粉絲ntrol their attention.

B. They can re買粉絲gnize human faces.

C. They can play with toys.

D. They can tell parents from others.

5. We can infer that David Lewkowicz ______.

A. did the experiment on his own

B. teaches Spanish at Florid

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