Part 7
生まれたばかりの赤ちゃんは何もできない,というのは本当でしょうか。
People used to
1
Babies are full of mysteries.
think they could do nothing by themselves except
breathe, eat and sleep. These days, however, new
discoveries about babies show us that they have much
greater abilities than most people think.
1B
2
Recent research findings in brain science and
cognitive psychology make it clear that babies are not
necessarily born with clean slates. For example, they
remember some sounds which they heard in the
mother's womb. Sounds in the womb are usually
muffled, but the melody and rhythm of musical sounds
are not much altered.
3
Surprisingly, babies sometimes can naturally do
what adults think babies cannot do. Do you believe
that babies are born with the ability to hold their 15
breath in the water and swim? Some researchers
studying the dive reflex in 21 infants between four and
twelve months old found
that
none of them
inhaled water or choked 20
during "diving." They
naturally moved their
Baby clean ciates 白紙の状態で
15 hold one's breath
後間もなくから1歳くらいになるまでの赤ちゃん
5
10
arms and legs in a
swimming motion.
discoveries
[diskávəriz)
<discovery
[diskávəri]
finding(s)
[fáindiŋ(z)]
brain [bréin]
cognitive
[kágnətiv]
psychology
[saikálǝdzi]
slate(s) (sléit(s)
womb (wú:m]
17 dive reflex
muffle(d)
[máfl(d)]
rhythm (ríom
alter(ed)
[5:ltər(d)]
surprisingly
[sərpráizinli]
naturally
[nætfərəli]
breath [bré0]
researcher(s)
[riss:rtfər(z)]
Co
reflex [rí:fleks]
infant(s)
[infənt(s)]
inhale(d)
[inhéil(d)]
choke(d)
[tfóuk (t)]
C
motion (mouf
