首页
登录
职称英语
People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develo
People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develo
游客
2024-02-15
17
管理
问题
People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably (坚定地) that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impressive accuracy—one plate, one knife, one spoon, one fork, for each of the five chairs. Soon they are capable of noting that they have placed five knives, five spoons, and five forks on the table and, a bit later, that this amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware. Having thus mastered addition, they move on to subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to expect that if a child were secluded on a desert island at birth and retrieved seven years later, he or she could enter a second-grade mathematics class without any serious problems of intellectual adjustment.
Of course, the truth is not so simple. In this century, the work of cognitive psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depends. Children were observed as they slowly grasped—or, as the case might be, bumped into—concepts that adults take for granted, as they refused, for instance, to concede that quantity is unchanged as water pours from a short stout glass into a tall thin one. Psychologists have since demonstrated that young children, when asked to count the pencils in a pile, readily report the number of blue or red pencils, but must be coaxed (说服) into finding the total. Such studies have suggested that the rudiments (基本原理) of mathematics are mastered gradually, and with effort. They have also suggested that the very concept of abstract numbers—the idea of a oneness, a twoness, a threeness that applies to any class of objects and is prerequisite (先决条件) for doing anything more mathematically demanding than setting a table—is itself far from innate. [br] It is______to believe that the quantity of water keeps unchanged when it is contained in two different glasses.
选项
A、easy to persuade children
B、hard for most children
C、the innate of most children
D、difficult for both adults and children
答案
B
解析
第2段第3句中they refused…to concede…中的they指children,对比题干与原文意思可知孩子们是“难以相信(理解),故选B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3454099.html
相关试题推荐
After1785,theproductionofchildren’sbooksintheUnitedStatesincrease
After1785,theproductionofchildren’sbooksintheUnitedStatesincrease
After1785,theproductionofchildren’sbooksintheUnitedStatesincrease
After1785,theproductionofchildren’sbooksintheUnitedStatesincrease
After1785,theproductionofchildren’sbooksintheUnitedStatesincrease
Thisisforpeoplewhoareinterestedinadoptingalow-fatlifestyleorfor
Thisisforpeoplewhoareinterestedinadoptingalow-fatlifestyleorfor
Thisisforpeoplewhoareinterestedinadoptingalow-fatlifestyleorfor
Thisisforpeoplewhoareinterestedinadoptingalow-fatlifestyleorfor
Thisisforpeoplewhoareinterestedinadoptingalow-fatlifestyleorfor
随机试题
Criminologyhastreatedwomen’sroleincrimewithalargemeasureofindiff
Theroleofandtreatmentofthehousewife,whichisreallythemajorboneof
A、Gotocollege.B、Getgoodgrades.C、Pursueacareer.D、Followherinterests.D
Complainingaboutfaultygoodsorbadserviceisnevereasy.Firstofall,c
人的身体发展是从上到下、从中间到四肢;在心理发展中,记忆是从机械记忆到意义记忆,
下列有关砌体挡土墙的基本要求的说法中,错误的是()。A.石料或混凝土预制块的强度
患者,男性,55岁。身高162cm,体重86kg。临床诊断为2型糖尿病2年余。
一点光源S通过平面镜成像,如图,光源不动。平面镜以速度v沿OS方向向光源平移,镜
下列哪项不属于银行贷款审批、决策的制度?()A.分级负责 B.集体审定
幂级数的收敛区间为()。 A.[-1,1]B.(-1,1]C.[-
最新回复
(
0
)