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Take a look at the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 7, 9, 6. Read them loud. Now look away and spend 20 conds memorizing them in order before saying them out loud again. If you speak English, you have about a 50% chance of remembering tho perfectly. If you are Chine, though, you’re almost certain to get it right every time. Why is that? Becau we most easily memorize whatever we can say or read within a two-cond period. And unlike English, the Chine language allows them to fit all tho ven numbers into two conds.That example comes from Stanislas Dahaene’s book The Number Sen. As Dahaene explains: Chine number words are remarkably brief. Most of them can be spoken out in less than one-quarter of a cond (for instance, 4 is “si” and 7 “qi”). Their English pronunciations are longer. The memory gap between English and Chine apparently is entirely due to this difference in length. It turns out that there is also a big difference in how number-naming systems in Western and Asian languages are constructed. In English, we say fourteen, sixteen, venteen, eighteen and nineteen, so one might expect that we would also say oneteen, twoteen, threeteen, and fiveteen. But we don’t. We u a different form: eleven, twelve, thirteen and fifteen. For numbers above 20, we put the “decade” first and the unit number cond (twenty-one, twenty-two), while for the teens, we do it the other way around (fourteen, venteen, eighteen). The number system in English is highly irregular. Not so in China, Japan, and Korea. They have a logical counting system. Eleven is ten-one. Twelve is ten-two. Twenty-four is two-tens-four and so on.That difference means that Asian children learn to count much faster than American children. Four-year-old Chine children can count, on average, to 40. American children at that age can count only to 15. By the age of five, in other words, American children are already a year behind their Asian friends in the most fundamental of math skills.The regularity of their number system also means that Asian children can perform basic functions, such as addition, far more easily. Ask an English-speaking ven-year-old to add thirty-ven plus twenty-two in her head, and she has to change the words to numbers (37+22). only then can she do the math: 2 plus 7 is 9 and 30 and 20 is 50, which makes 59. Ask an Asian child to add three-tens-ven and two-tens-two, and then the necessary equation(等式) is right there, in the ntence. No number translation is necessary: it’s five-tens-nine.When it comes to math, in other words, Asians have a built-in advantage. For years, students from China, South Korea, and Japan --- outperformed their Western classmates at mathematics, and the typical assumption is that it has something to do with a kind of Asian talent for math. The differences between the number systems in the East and the West suggest something very different --- that being good at math may also be rooted in a group’s culture.小题1:What does the passage mainly talk about?A．The Asian number-naming system helps grasp advanced math skills better.B．Western culture fail to provide their children with adequate number knowledge.C．Children in Western countries have to learn by heart the learning things.D．Asian children’s advantage in math may be sourced from their culture.小题2:What makes a Chine easier to remember a list of numbers than an American?A．Their understanding of numbers.B．Their mother tongue.C．Their math education.D．Their different IQ.小题3:Asian children can reach answers in basic math functions more quickly becau ____________.A．they pronounce the numbers in a shorter periodB．they practice math from an early ageC．English speaking children translate language into numbers firstD．American children can only count to 15 at the age of four 题型：未知难度：其他题型

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小题1:D小题1:B小题1:C

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