精品文档老托福阅读真题PASSAGE66

1、老托福阅读真题 PASSAGE 66托福阅读的思维方式就是托福阅读的出题方式，只有掌握了这种思维方式，才有可 能在做题之前，预测到新托福阅读题的出题形式和特点，为找答案节省时间。老托福阅 读试题的核心价值，在于其最贴近真题的阅读思维方式。此外老托福阅读真题比新托福 IBT阅读文章要短，比较容易适应。这也是大家在备考托福的时候非常重要的一点。因 为前期的入手如果能从容易的开始，就会形成一个循序渐进的过程方式，让大家的练习 有一个提高的过程。既然老托福阅读试题有这样的效果，那我们如何利用那有限的真题来达到锻炼自己的目的呢？事实上这就一个办法，就是坚持。本期为大家推荐老托福阅读的真题 PASSAGE

2、 66,附有原文及答案，希望对托福考生备考有所帮助。Long before they can actually speak, babies pay special atte nti on to the speech they hear around them. Within the first month of their lives, babies responses to the sound of the humanvoice will be differentfrom their responsesto other sorts of auditory stimuli. They will

3、 stop crying when they hear a person talking, but not if they hear a bell or the sound of a rattle. At first, the sounds that an infant notices might be only those words that receive the heaviest emphasis and that often occur at the ends of utterances. By the time they are six or seve n weeks old, b

4、abies can detect the differe nee betwee n syllables pronounced with rising and falling inflections. Very soon, these differences in adult stress and in ton ati on can in flue nce babies emotio nal states and behavior. Long before they develop actual la nguage comprehe nsion, babies can sense whe n a

5、n adult is playful or an gry, attempt ing to in itiate or term in ate new behavior, and so on, merely on the basis of cues such as the rate, volume, and melody of adult speech.Adults make it as easy as they can for babies to pick up a Ianguage by exaggerating such cues. One researcher observed babie

6、s and their mothers in six diverse cultures and found that, in all six Ian guages, the mothers used simplifiedsyntax, short utterances and nonsense sounds, and transformed certainsounds into baby talk. Other inv estigators have no ted that whe n mothers talk to babies who are on ly a few mon ths old

7、, they exaggerate the pitch, loud ness, and in ten sity of their words. They also exaggerate their facial expressi ons, hold vowels Ion ger, and emphasize certa in words.More sig nifica nt for Ian guage developme nt tha n their resp onse to gen eral intonationis observation that tiny babies can make

8、relatively fine distinctionsbetween speech sounds. In other words, babies enter the world with the abilityto make precisely those perceptual discrim in atio ns that are n ecessary if they are to acquire aural la nguage.Babies obviously derive pleasure from sound in put, too: eve n as young as nine m

9、on ths they will liste n to songs or stories, although the words themselves are beyond their understanding.For babies, Ianguage is a sensory-motor delightrather than the route to prosaic meaning that it often is for adults.1. What does the passage mainly discuss?(A) Howbabies differentiatebetween th

10、e sound of the humanvoice and othersounds(B) The differe nces betwee n a babys and an adults ability to comprehe ndIan guage(C) How babies perceive and resp ond to the huma n voice in their earliest stages of Ian guage developme nt(D) The resp onse of babies to sounds other tha n the huma n voice2.

11、Why does the author mention a bell and a rattle in lines 4-5?(A) To con trast the react ions of babies to huma n and non huma n sounds(B) To give examples of sounds that will cause a baby to cry(C) To explai n how babies dist in guish betwee n differe nt non huma n sounds(D) To give examples of typi

12、cal toys that babies do not like3. Whydoes the author mention syllablespronounced with rising and fallingin flecti ons in lines 7-8?(A) To dem on strate how difficult it is for babies to in terpret emoti ons(B) To illustrate that a six-week-old baby can already distinguish someIan guage differe nces

13、(C) To provide an example of ways adults speak to babies(D) To give a reason for babies difficulty in distinguishingone adult fromano ther4. The word diverse in line 14 is closest in meaning to(A) surro unding(B) divided(C) differe nt(D) stimulat ing5. The word no ted in line 17 is closest in meanin

14、g to(A) theorized(B) requested(C) disagreed(D) observed6. The word They in line 18 refers to(A) mothers(B) in vestigators(C) babies(D) words7. The passage men ti ons all of the follow ing as ways adults modify their speech whe n talk ing to babies EXCEPT(A) giving all words equal emphasis(B) speak i

15、ng with shorter senten ces(C) speak ing more loudly tha n no rmal(D) using mea nin gless sounds8. The word emphasize in line 19 is closest in meaning to(A) stress(B) repeat(C) expla in(D) leave out9. Which of the follow ing can be in ferred about the findings described in paragraph 2?(A) Babies who

16、are exposed to more than one Ianguage can speak earlier than babies exposed to a sin gle Ian guage.(B) Mothers from different cultures speak to their babies in similar ways.(C) Babies ignore facial expressi ons in comprehe nding aural la nguage.(D) The mothers observed by the researchers were consci

17、ously teaching their babies to speak.10. What point does the author make to illustrate that babies are born with the ability to acquire Ian guage?(A) Babies beg in to un dersta nd words in son gs.(B) Babies exaggerate their own sounds and expressi ons.(C) Babies are more sen sitive to sounds tha n a

18、re adults.(D) Babies no tice eve n minor differe nces betwee n speech soun ds.11. According to the author, why do babies listento songs and stories, eventhough they cannot un dersta nd them?(A) They un dersta nd the rhythm.(B) They enjoy the sound.(C) They can remember them easily.(D) They focus on the meaning of their pare nts words.参考答案：CABCD AAABD B以上就是前程百利为大家整理的老托福阅读真题，考生可进行参考训练以提高自己的考试水平。若您想了解托福考试更多相关信息请关注前程百利。倚窗远眺，目光目光尽处必有一座山，那影影绰绰的黛绿色的影，是春天的颜色。 周遭流岚升