GoldinMeadow's more recent work strews not only that gesture shows our readiness to learn, but that it actually helps to bring learning about. It does so in two ways. First, it elicits(引出) helpful behavior from others around us. GoldinMeadow has found that adults respond to children's speechgesture mismatches by adjusting their way of instruction. Parents and teachers apparently receive the signal that children are ready to learn, and they act on it by offering a greater variety of problemsolving techniques. The act of gesturing itself also seems to quicken learning, bringing new knowledge into consciousness and aiding the understanding of new concepts. A 2007 study by Susan Wagner Cook, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Iowa, reported that thirdgraders who were asked to gesture while learning algebra (代数) were nearly three times more likely to remember what they'd learned than classmates who did not gesture.
文章大意:手势语对于我们的学习有着重要的意义。
60.According to Paragraph 1, Frederic Mishkin was asked to sit on his hands because________.
A. he could better express his ideas that way
B. he always pointed his finger at his professor
C. his professor did not like his gesturing
D. his gestures prevented his professor from thinking
答案:C 细节理解题。由第一段最后一句话“When he was in graduate school, one of his professors was so annoyed by this constant gesturing that he made the young economist sit on his hands whenever he visited the professor's office.”可知,教授对他的学生的指手画脚的动作不满。
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