By adopting a few simple techniques, parents who read to their children can considerably increase their children’s language development. It is surprising, but true. How parents talk to their children makes a big difference in the children’s language development. If a parent encourages the child to actively respond to what the parent is reading, the child’s language skills increase. A study was done with two or three-year-old children and their parents. Half of the thirty children participants were in the experimental study; the other half acted as the control group. In the experimental group, the parents were given a two-hour training session in which they were taught to ask open-ended questions rather than yes-no questions. For example, the parent should ask, “What is the doggy doing?” rather than, “Is the doggy running away?” Experimental parents were also instructed how to expand on their children’s answer, how to suggest alternative possibilities, and how to praise correct answers.

At the beginning of the study, the children did not differ on levels of language development, but at the end of one month, the children in the experimental group were 5.5 months ahead of the control group on a test of verbal expression and vocabulary. Nine months later, the children in the experimental group still showed an advance of 6 months over the children in the control group.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 38 to 42.

Parents can give great help to their children’s language development by____________them.

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• Choose the word that has different pronunciation: apologises, invites, roofs, certificates.

• During the training session, experimental parents were taught to____________. 

• A paragraph is a portion of a text consists of one or more sentences related to the same idea. (underlined part that needs correction)

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• It was late at night, the wind was howling and when she heard the knock on the door, she almost jumped out of her skin.

• Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or Don your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 33 to 37.

• Most headaches____________with aspirin unless they are too severe. 

• Why does the author mention “cosmic rays”?

• Mark delayed writing the book until he had done a lot of research. 

• The word “vary” is closest in meaning to____________. 

• (35) ___________ 

• Women have proved repeatedly that they are equal and often superior____________men in almost every field.

• I ran in a marathon last week, but I was not fit enough. I____________after 15 kilometres.

• We have achieved considerable results in the economic field, such as high economic growth, stability and significant poverty alleviation over the past few years. (underlined words OPPOSITE in meaning with)

• I wish I____________able to accept that role, but I was preparing for another play at the time.

• You should know that everyone in this office____________busy planning the dance for a week.

• (37) ___________ 

• Mark and Anne are talking after the class.

  Mark: “Guess what? I’ve been recruited to be a member of Green Dream Volunteer Group.”

  Anne: “________________”

• The arrested man is suspected of____________government funds for himself. 

• what was the major difference between the control group and the experimental one in the study?

• I would have cooked something special if I____________you were coming.