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Regular child care provided outside home or by someone other than the mother does not in itself undermine healthy emotional connections between mothers and their 15-month-old infants, according to a long-term national study. The finding holds even if care begins during the first 3 months after birth and runs for 30 hours or more per week.

Among infants who receive unkind and unresponsive care from their mothers, however, the mother-child relationship may be damaged. \apart complexities regarding child care that have not previously been studied in detail,\

The investigation consists of 1,153 children and their families living in or near Boston. The youngsters, no more than 1 month old when they entered the study in 1991, will be tracked until the age of 7. Experimenters administered questionnaires to mothers in their homes and videotaped baby caretakers interacting with the kids at ages 1, 6 and 15 months. Independent observers rated the quality of each child care efforts and noted infant nervousness. Unlike most previous studies, this one allows researchers to observe each caretaker's personality at child nursing, and kids' emotional reactions by the equipment.

1、 From the first paragraph we know that ______.

A、mother care is the best according to a national study

B、child care outside home is the best in accordance with the study C、regular child care outside home does not in itself do harm to mother-child relationship

D、connections between mothers and infants are damaged by outside care

参考答案:C 解析:

【答案】C【解析】判断题，浏览四个选项，谈论的是母亲抚养孩子与其他人抚养孩子之间的关系。先浏览第一段把握大意，再进行判断做题。第一段说，根据研究，经常由家庭以外的其他人照顾孩子，这种情况本身并不会破坏母子关系，该结论甚至认为，即便这种情况从孩子出生的最初3个月就开始，每周持续30多个小时，也不会对母子关系有影响。A，“根据研究，母亲照顾孩子是最好的”，B，“根据研究，由家庭以外的其他人照顾孩子是最好的”，C，“经常由家庭以外的其他人照顾孩子，这本身不会破坏母子关系”，D，“母亲与婴儿之间的关系会被其他外来照顾者伤害”。根据题意，选C。

2、According to the passage, unresponsive care from a mother may ______.

A、ruin a kid's growth

B、harm the mother-child tie

C、hurt a baby's emotional reaction D、spoil a child's personality 参考答案:B 解析:

【答案】B【解析】细节题，问：“文章认为，母亲对孩子照顾不周，也许会_____。”对应文中第二段第一句话：Among infants who receive unkind

and unresponsive care from their mothers, however, the mother-child relationship may be damaged.“然而，从受到母亲冷待或照顾不周的婴儿来看，母子关系有可能会被破坏。”根据文意选B，“破坏母子联系。”harm对应文中的be damaged.

3、Jay Belsky implies that the study of child care ______.

A、was never carried out in the past

B、was not done much in detail in the past

C、was greatly ignored by psychologists and researchers D、was interesting but very difficult to make discovery 参考答案:B 解析:

【答案】B【解析】细节题，问：“Jay Belsky暗示，对抚养孩子的研究____。”文中引用Jay Belsky的话：\regarding child care that have not previously been studied in detail,\contends Jay Belsky, a psychologist.“这一研究帮助我们分解关于抚养孩子问题的复杂性，这些问题在此之前没有进行详细的研究。”根据文意选B，“过去没有得到深入细致的研究。”done对应studied，in the past对应previously。

4、The main difference between the investigation and the previous ones is that ______.

A、the researchers started with only one month old infants

B、the observers could rate the quality of child care efforts and analyzed them soon

C、the researchers were able to give the questionnaires to mothers in their homes

D、video equipment enabled researchers to observe what was happening directly 参考答案:D 解析:

【答案】D【解析】细节题，问：“这一调查与之前的相比，主要区别在于____。”对应文中第三段最后一句话：Unlike most previous studies, this one allows researchers to observe each caretaker's personality at child nursing, and kids' emotional reactions by the equipment.“与之前大多数研究不一样，该调查能够让研究人员通过仪器（视频录像）观察到每一位抚养者在照顾孩子时的个性特点和孩子的情绪反馈。”根据文意选D，“视频录像能让研究人员直接观察（实验的）过程。”

5、Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the investigation?

A、It will last at least 7 years.

B、Cooperation from the mothers is also necessary. C、Some independent observers play a part.

D、Researchers paid site visits to see a caretaker's personality and kids' emotional reactions. 参考答案:D 解析:

【答案】D【解析】判断题，问：“关于这一调查，以下哪一项不是真实的？”先浏览调查过程（文章第三段），再根据四个选项进行判断。A，“调查要持续至少七年。”对应文中：The youngsters, no more than 1 month old

when they entered the study in 1991, will be tracked until the age of 7. “最年幼的孩子在1991年接受研究时还不到一个月大，将被追踪到他们七岁。”B，“母亲的配合是很必要的。”该调查要求母亲填写调查问卷，说明母亲需要配合调查。C，“一些独立的观察者要发挥作用。”文中提到：

Independent observers rated the quality of each child care efforts and noted infant nervousness.“独立观察者对每次照顾孩子的行为进行评级，并且记录孩子是否有紧张情绪。”D，“研究人员到现场访查，以了解抚养者的个性特点与孩子的情绪反应。”文中说到，研究人员通过观看视频的方式进行了解，因此此项与文意不符，选D。

There’s a great story about an old Finnish woman who, without quite realizing it, was using her cell-phone to access the Internet and track her city’s public transit system. When asked why she used the wireless Internet so frequently, she replied, “What are you talking about? I don’t know anything about this wireless Internet stuff. I just know the bus is here.”

Regardless of whether you want to admit it, a lot of us are like that old Finnish woman. When it comes to new mobile applications, many of us do not realize the capability and power that we hold, literally, in our hands.

What we are looking at today is the mobile Internet in its infancy. Now that

using the Internet from home or work has saturated much of society, the next logical step is to be able to use the Net when you are far away from your desktop or laptop. Speech recognition is one way to do this, and there are a number of services,

collectively called the “voice Web”, that will make this possible. All you do is to use a phone or wireless device to call a phone number, and speak commands to an

intuitive system. It will then give you the information you’re seeking, using either a synthesized voice or an audio file.

In the United States and Europe, the hot technology for wireless devices is called WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), which is being considered as the world standard. WAP is supported by major phone companies including Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson, and is simply a means of transmitting information, much like HTML which is a means of communicating on the Internet.

Currently, wireless Internet connections may give you news, sports scores, stock quotes, and the weather if you’re lucky. But if you’ve ever used this technology, you know it’s slow, costly and doesn’t seem worth the time and effort, if it works at all. All of this technology points to easier living. Perhaps you’ll need to find a restaurant for an occasional business meeting. You’ll press a button on your mobile phone, and access the Internet to pull up a list of great restaurants in your immediate area. You’ll hit another button, say a few words into the handset and you’ve got a reservation for four.

6、The author uses the story of an old Finnish woman to indicate that __________.

A、she is ignorant of some common knowledge

B、public transit system contains the accessory to Internet

C、many people are unaware of the function of the new appliances being used

D、the Internet is experiencing rapid growth 参考答案:C 解析: