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Experts believe that the best time to teach kids language skills is when they are babies. Most times the task is easily accomplished with parents reading or talking to their babies. However, in some cases that is not possible due to parents' busy work schedules or when kids are born deaf. Now, a blue-eyed robot, a human image, and some high-tech neuroscience may be able to assist parents with this important developmental task.

The Robot AVatar thermal-Enhanced system, or RAVE, is the brainchild of a team of researchers led by Laura-Ann Petitto, an educational neuroscientist. The learning process begins when the robot's camera, which is focused on the baby's face, notices tiny changes in his/her body temperature. This, combined with the baby's facial expression, causes the robot to turn its head and guide the baby's attention to a computer screen, on which a human image starts to communicate with the baby. For example, if the baby points towards the screen, the image might respond, "Are you pointing to me?" and follow that up with a nursery rhyme or fairy tale, all in American Sign Language (ASL). The "conversation" continues until the kid loses interest.

The researchers found that babies as young as 6 to 8 months old began to move their hands in a rhythm similar to ASL after communicating with RAVE for just a few minutes. Petitto says natural language, whether communicated through speech or sign, activates (激活) the same parts of the brain and believes the rhythmic motion proves the babies are learning the essential elements of communication.

What sets this technique apart from other methods, such as showing educational videos or television shows, is its interactive (互动的) nature and real-time response to the baby's actions. The researchers say that while it is too early to determine the system's long-term influence on baby communication, the initial response has been very encouraging. Next, they plan to introduce a robot that can both sign and speak to babies.

1. （1） What can the RAVE system help parents do?

   A . Improve babies' health condition. B . Take good care of babies. C . Develop babies' language skills. D . Keep company with babies.
3. （2） What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?

   A . How babies learn ASL effectively. B . How parents educate their babies. C . How robots talk and read to babies. D . How the RAVE system works.
5. （3） What indicates babies are learning with the help of the RAVE system?

   A . Interest in videos and TV shows. B . Changes in their body temperature. C . Improvement in their natural language D . Hand movements in a rhythm like ASL.
7. （4） What do the researchers think of the RAVE system?

   A . Promising. B . Impractical. C . Satisfactory. D . Disappointing.