Reading Comprehension:
      Dr. Sally Ward, the country’s leading authority on the speech development of young children, believes that babies under one yearold should not watch television or videos at all. Children of two or three should watch for no more than an hour a day.
     Dr. Ward’s ten-year study of babies and toddlers in inner-city Manchester showed television was delaying speech development inchildren. The background noise from televisions stopped them learning to talk as early as they should. At eight months, they neitherrecognized their names nor basic words like ‘juice’ and ‘bricks’. At three, they had the language of two-year-olds.
     Now she has found that children from well-to-do families are being handicapped in the same way. The television is being used as ababysitter, with nannies particularly. Some of these middle-class children are spending far too much time watching television andvideos. ‘They get very fixed on the colors and flashing lights. We found in our study it was quite difficult to get them interested intoys.’               Parents or minders had stopped talking to them. They were not being taught a basic vocabulary through one-to-one conversationswith adults. All the evidence showed, said Dr. Ward, that children whose language was below standard at the age of three could beset back for life.
26. The best title for this passage is
(A) Dr. Sally Ward’s research has been profound.
(B) Early exposure to television slows down children’s speech development.
(C) Dr. Sally Ward is a leading expert on children’s speech development.
(D) Choosing a proper minder for children is important.