III. Reading comprehension 10% Choose the best answer for each question    For generations, childhood may have been life’s one, true sweetheart deal. In the past few years, however, all that haschanged. Preschoolers who once would have spent their time learning simply to play and share are being bombarded with flashcards, educational CD-ROMs and other gadgets designed to teach reading, writing and second languages. Parents are hauntedby the idea that if they can’t perfect their children, they must at least get them as close to that ideal as possible. Marketers seeworried parents as the most promising pigeons. Store shelves are loaded with new products claimed to stimulate babies’ brains.Parents who don’t avail themselves of these products do so at their children’s peril. Child-development experts, however,consider these tools inferior to more social and emotional activities such as talking with or reading to children. Thesespecialists agree that the only thing shown to optimize children’s intellectual potential is a secure, trusting relationship withtheir parents.    Trying to pump up children’s IQs in an artificial way may lead to increased stress on the kids. But, actually, the kids don’thave to feel so pressured, and neither do their parents. It is true that a baby’s brain is a fast-growing thing. Far from passivelysponging up information, it is busy from birth laying complex webs of neurons that help it grow more sophisticated each day.However, the right kinds of stimulation may not be the ones people think they are. Asked in a study what skills children needin order to be prepared for school, parents of kindergarteners cited achievements such as knowing numbers, letters, colors andshapes. But teachers say that children need to cultivate social skills such as sharing, interacting with others and followinginstructions. Kids who come to school with a mastery of these abilities stand a better chance of knocking off not only readingand writing but everything else that comes along as well. After all, intelligence is based on emotional adequacy.
31. According to child development specialists, which of the following is the best for children?
(A) Flash cards and CD-ROMs.
(B) Gadgets of language learning
(C) Learning to share and talk with others.
(D) Being loaded with new products.