【词汇大师】书香伴我成长（1/2）

英语自学网

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你家有多少藏书？在每个阳关洒进书房的下午，找一个舒服的角落，打开一本好书，我们就这样在满屋书香中慢慢长大。
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本篇对话中，主持人的对话不需要听写，只需听写嘉宾的话
主持人对话①"Does it matter whether these are children's books or adult books? Are these the parents' books, or did you look at whose books these were?"
主持人对话 ②"Now getting back to the idea of books in the home and a family library, after looking at the results of your study, what sort of message do you come away from your study with?"

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"What we found was that there is a very substantial effect of growing up in a bookish home on children's success in school. Children who grow up in homes where there are more books go further in education. And additional books are especially important for children who come from families where the parents aren't terribly highly educated.
"When you have very highly educated parents, you still get some result of additional books in the home. But you get much more of what you might call 'bang for your book' for parents who have little education."
"They could be anything. So what you're looking at here is really a kind of average effect of different kinds of books. We've also got some research under way -- it's not been published, so it's not been peer-reviewed yet, so it has to be seen as a kind of a preview. But there, we're seeing that the books that have the most impact are history and science."
"It helps make sense of findings that bookish people in otherwise not technologically very advanced places have gone far in education. So in that sense it says that there really is a contribution that parents can make to their children's education. And it doesn't mean that you have to turn into somebody like me whose walls are lined with books.”