2025年12月英语六级听力真题 卷二 录音2

Recording Two

第二篇录音

Reading with a young child is important, but does it matter whether you read from an electronic book or traditional print?

和幼儿一起阅读很重要，但用电子书还是传统纸质书阅读，这重要吗？

As any parent knows, small children are generally keen on screens,

所有家长都知道，小孩子通常都很喜欢屏幕，

so the finding from a new study that very young children enjoy electronic books more than printed picture books may not come as a huge surprise.

因此一项新研究发现：低龄儿童更喜欢电子书而非纸质绘本，这可能并不让人特别意外。

But the following additional findings might:

但下面这些额外发现可能会让人吃惊：

both parents and children behave differently when reading electronic versus printed picture books,

父母和孩子在阅读电子书和纸质绘本时的行为表现截然不同，

and the children who read the electronic books learned more.

而且读电子书的孩子学到的东西更多。

Previous studies of young children have suggested that electronic books, which incorporate extra features such as dictionaries and images that depict story events, may have advantages over print.

此前针对幼儿的研究表明，包含词典、故事场景插图等额外功能的电子书，可能比纸质书更有优势。

In fact, multiple studies have found that electronic books support story comprehension and vocabulary gains beyond what is provided by printed books.

事实上，多项研究发现，电子书在帮助理解故事、增加词汇量方面，效果优于纸质书。

But there's also work suggesting that children sometimes invest less mental effort in learning from electronic books,

但也有研究表明，孩子在通过电子书学习时，有时投入的脑力更少，

and the parents talk less about content when sharing such books.

而且家长在共读电子书时，对内容的交流也更少。

The study we're looking at today aims to give us a better understanding of how good electronic books are for young children.

我们今天关注的这项研究，旨在让我们更清楚电子书对幼儿到底有多好。

For this study, researchers videoed children aged 17 to 26 months reading with one of their parents.

在这项研究中，研究人员拍摄了17到26个月大的幼儿与父母一起阅读的过程。

Each parent and child pair was randomly assigned to read either two educational electronic books or two printed books with the same content.

每对亲子被随机分配阅读两本教育类电子书，或两本内容相同的纸质书。

While the parent read the words in the printed books aloud, the electronic books had audio of voice actors reading the text.

读纸质书时由家长大声朗读，而电子书则由配音演员朗读文本。

The researchers found that parents who read the printed books pointed more frequently to pages than parents who read the electronic books,

研究人员发现，读纸质书的家长比读电子书的家长更频繁地用手指着书页，

but the opposite was true for the children.

但孩子的情况正好相反。

Children who read the electronic books also commented more on the content and learned more new words than the children who read printed books.

读电子书的孩子对内容的评价更多，学到的新词也比读纸质书的孩子多。

This greater learning is ascribed to greater engagement with the electronic books.

这种更好的学习效果归因于孩子对电子书的投入度更高。

It's important to note that the electronic books in the study were simple.

值得注意的是，研究中使用的电子书比较简单。

While they included background music, animation and sound effects, there were no other extra features.

它们虽然包含背景音乐、动画和音效，但没有其他额外功能。

It's also important to note that there's research on older children finding that electronic books don't always bolster learning.

同样值得注意的是，针对年龄稍大儿童的研究发现，电子书并不总能促进学习。

Parents and educators need to be aware extra features in electronic books may increase children's participation with them.

家长和教育工作者需要意识到，电子书里的额外功能可能会提高孩子的参与度。

However, if these features don't draw attention to the educational content, they may not serve as a supportive feature.

但是，如果这些功能不能把注意力吸引到教育内容上，它们就无法起到辅助学习的作用。

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.

第19至21题基于你刚刚听到的录音。

19. What finding from the new study might come as a huge surprise?

19. 这项新研究中，哪项发现可能让人非常意外？

20. What do we learn about previous studies of young children reading electronic books?

20. 关于以往针对幼儿阅读电子书的研究，我们了解到什么？

21. What extra features should be included in electronic books to bolster children's learning?

21. 电子书应该包含哪些额外功能来促进孩子的学习？

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