完形填空： Everyone knows that Asian kids do well in math, but do you know why?
完形填空：
Everyone knows that Asian kids do well in math, but do you know why? Recently some researchers __1__ a book, and in it they try to tell us why Asian kids are good __2__ math.The __3__ reason is how short the spoken digits are (in Chinese at least). __4__ the following numbers out loud: 4, 8, 5, 6. __5__ you speak English, you’ll need more than tow seconds, but in Chinese, you’ll need __6__ than one. The second reason is the structure of the number system. In English we have words __7___ fourteen, thirty-four, and fifty-seven. The number system in English is irregular, but it isn’t in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. These __8__ have a logical counting system. In Chinese, eleven is ten-one. Twelve is ten-two. Twenty-four is two-tens-four, and so on. __9__, Asian kids learn to count faster and higher, which makes them be __10__to do math problems better than kids in other parts of the world.
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