Directions: In this section, you will hear a short passage. At the end of the passage, you will hear 4 questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A) , B) , C) and D).
A four-year study conducted by the Infant Testing Center in San Francisco, California, suggests that babies feel more comfortable around other babies than with strange adults. According to the study, babies benefit by being with their fellow infants daily. Whereas a baby might show fear of an adult stranger, he is likely to smile and reach out for an unfamiliar infant. By the time babies are one year old, they have begun to form friendships of a sort.
The above findings, based on observation of 100 babies aged three months to three years, might prove interesting to working parents who must find day care for their babies. Family care in a private home, with several babies together, is probably the ideal way to care for babies under three. Dr. Benjamin Spock, well-known infant expert and author of books about babies, supports the idea. He says that family day care is sounder in theory than hiring a housekeeper or a babysitter.
Questions:
1. What is the report mainly about?(C)
2. Which of the following is a baby likely to feel more at ease with?(B)
3. What does Dr. Benjamin Spock do?(B)
4. Which is sounder in theory?(A)
