第二节(共5小题:每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。
Chinese Characters Help Improve IQ
Chinese characters may be the reason why local children aged between six and 12 display a higher IQ than their peers in Britain, Germany and Australia.
The pictographic nature of the Chinese writing system helps to inspire the thinking ability of children. Their intelligence develops better while they learn the characters. 36
I am a retired Chinese-language teacher from Malaysia. From my experiences, I have long noticed that Chinese-medium-educated students always excel in mathematics as compared with those taught in other languages. 37 The words for numerals are all monosyllabic (单音节的) in Chinese. In contrast, their equivalents (对应词) in Malay have two or three syllables, like sa -tu, du-a, ti-ga，em-pat, li-ma,e-nam. 38 Their English equivalents—one, two, three, four, five, six,seven, eight,nine,ten, hundred, thousand,million - include multi-syllabic words, too.
39 Children easily find that it is in the Chinese language that they can do the job fastest. Children taught in Chinese find it easier to learn numerals and can do their calculations much faster. This has been repeatedly proved by reports on Chinese-medium-educated students winning prizes in International Mathematics Olympiads.
Mathematics has a lot to do with IQ tests, as it is well proved that children good at numbers tend to have a stronger reasoning ability. 40 Teach the children Chinese so that they can think in the language. Keep their cutting edge in mathematics with the aid of Chinese characters, and this will improve their IQ.
A. The secret lies in the Chinese characters.
B.They are much quicker at learning languages.
C. This was discovered by Dr Zeng, assistant professor of psychology at NUS.
D. The difference between them is striking when it comes to memorizing the multiplication table.
E. So, I would like to call on Chinese parents to treasure the language of our ancestors.
F. It takes a longer time to pronounce these words.
G. Therefore, I'm going to teach mathematics if possible.
