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29.What does Miller think of children drawing more male scientists than femalescientists?A.It's not surprising.B.It's not reasonable.C.It's unexpected.D.It's not acceptable.30.What does paragraph 6 mainly talk about?A.How children develop their drawings.B.How children's stereotypes change with age.C.Why children draw more male scientists.D.What scientists look like in children's drawings.31.According to Miller,how can we make children draw more female scientists?A.By encouraging children to attend science courses.B.By encouraging children to become scientists in the future.C.By giving children an example of drawing female scientists.D.By making female scientists known to children in various situations.DChinese speakers have got a new thing to be proud of.The language they arespeaking is more difficult than English.Understanding Chinese requires both sides of the brain,but English speakers listenwith only half their minds on the job,UK scientists say.UK psychologist Sophie Scott and researchers from hospitals in Oxford and Londonperformed brain scans on volunteers as they listened to their native languages.WhenEnglish speakers heard the sound of their language,the left parts of their brains lit up onscreen.When Chinese speakers heard their native tongue,there was an action in both theright and left sides."We were very surprised to discover that people who speak different sorts oflanguages use their brains to decode speech in different ways,"said Scott.The left side is normally connected with putting sounds together into words;theright with processing melody(音调)in music and speech,so this part“lights up”whenEnglish speakers hear music.The researchers do not yet know whether the right side isactive in English speakers when they hear Chinese.In Chinese,a different intonation()delivers a different meaning:the syllable(音节)“ma”,for instance,can mean mother,hemp(庥)，horse or scold according to itsmusical sound."Speech really is a complex sound,"said Scott."As well as understanding words,thebrain uses the way in which words are spoken,such as intonation and melody,to turnspoken language into meaning.2022年“炎德英才杯”高二基础学科知识竞赛（英语）第7页（共12页）