专题08： 2021-2022学年高二下期中考试模拟试题（一）-【对点变式题】2021-2022学年高二下英语期中必考题精准练（上海专用）.docx

专题 08 ： 2021-2022学年高 二 下期中 考试模拟试题（一） 2021-2022学年高二下期中必考题精准练 Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. Talking with—Not Just to—Kids Powers How They Learn Language Children from the poorer families begin life not only with material disadvantages but cognitive ones. Decades of research (1)____________(confirm) this, including a famous 1995 finding by psychologists Betty Hart and Todd Risley: By age four children raised in poverty have heard 30 million fewer words, on average, than their peers from wealthier families. That gap has been linked to shakier language skills at the start of school, (2)____________, in turn, predicts weaker academic performance. But just the quantity of words a toddler hears is not the most significant influence on language acquisition. Growing evidence has led researchers to conclude quality matters more than quantity, and (3)____________(valuable) quality seems to be back-and-forth communication—what researchers call conversational turns. A paper (4)____________(publish) last week in Psychological Science brings a new kind of support to this idea, offering the first evidence that these exchanges play a vital role in the development of Broca’s area, the brain region most closely associated with producing speech. Further, the amount of conversational turns a child experiences daily outweighs socioeconomic status in predicting (5)____________ activity in Broca’s area and the child’s language skills. The researchers confirmed the classic 1995 finding that, overall, kids from wealthier families hear more words. And small (6)____________ their sample was, they even confirmed the 30-million-word gap between the poorest and richest children. But they