Ⅱ.阅读理解

　　Parents, you've worked hard to teach the most important life lessons to your little ones.You ask them to say "please" and "thank you"， you remind them to eat with a knife and fork, and you never, ever let them pick their nose in public.But there's one important lesson that you might be forgetting - and it's nothing you can cover in a simple conversation.

　　According to a new study in the journal Science, babies receive more than genetics (基因) from their parents.They can also get certain good qualities, such as persistence (坚持不懈), by watching how adults behave.Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology say that babies who watched an adult struggle (努力) with and then triumph_over something were more likely to show persistence themselves when given a new task.

　　The team at MIT studied 262 babies between the ages of 13 and 18 months.They placed them in one of three situations.In the first one, the lead researcher struggled with two different toys' problems before solving them, letting the baby watch while she did so.The second time, the researcher solved the problems but did not struggle with them.And for the third scene, she did not do anything.

　　After each scene, the researcher left a small musical toy with the child.She showed the baby that it could play music but did not teach them how to turn it on.The babies who had watched the researcher struggle discovered and pressed the toy's button (按钮) a much greater number of times than those in the last two groups.In other words, the babies did not copy what they had watched; they learned not to give up, instead.

　　Now, the researchers are interested in finding which ways of talking with babies influence them the most.They also hope to know if the results can work in the real world, as well as whether the lesson of persistence might last into adulthood.

　　语篇解读：本文是说明文。研究发现，婴儿可以从父母那里学到坚持不懈的好品质。

　　1．What important lesson might parents forget?

　　A．Asking their kids to be polite.

　　B．Setting an example for their kids.

　　C．Teaching their kids good table manners.

　　D．Using proper words in front of their kids.

　　解析：选B　推理判断题。根据第一段中的"it's nothing you can cover in a simple conversation"及第二段中的"They can also get certain good qualities, such as persistence (坚持不懈), by watching how adults behave."可知，父母往往忽略的是自己以身作则的作用。

　　2．What do the underlined words "triumph over" in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Succeed at. B．Look at.