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According to researchers at Yale University’s Infant（嬰兒）Cognition Center, babies can actually tell good from evil, even as young as three months old.

Puppets（木偶）are used to show good and bad behaviors. In one case, a puppet is trying hard to open a box. Another puppet, the “good”, helps it open the box, while another, the “bad” puppet, shuts the box on purpose.

More than 80% of the time when the experiment is done, babies will choose the “good” puppet when presented with both puppets and given the chance to choose either one.

Humans are both with a sense of good and evil, according to Paul Bloom, Yale’s Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology.

“We are naturally moral beings, but our environment can improve—or sadly, weaken—this inborn moral sense,” Bloom said.

So now I’m wondering if, during those months when I thought my babies had no idea of the world around them, I did anything I should not have done.

Lyz Lenz, mom of a nearly three-year-old daughter and seven-month-old son, wonders the same thing.

“After the birth of my daughter, I watched all of ‘Damages’, a TV show where Glenn Close plays an evil lawyer,” she said.

Many women I talked with by e-mail or on Face book weren’t really surprised to learn there’s much more going on in the brains of our littlest ones.

Jessica McFadden, founder of the blog “A Parent in America” and mother of three, remembers when her daughter Alice was four years old.

“She would babble （talk quickly in a way that is hard to understand） worriedly in front of the family photo hanging in our home,” said McFadden. The photo was taken before her daughter was born and included everyone in the family—except her.

“She truly seemed put out that she was not in the picture! When the photo was replaced with a new one including her, she smiled and waved her hands and would happily look at it each time she passed it,” she said.

8. Lenz seems to be worried that ________.

A. ‘Damages’ might had a bad influence on her daughter

B. she gave her children little time to watch TV shows

C. she failed to teach her children about good and evil

D. her children had no idea of the world around them

9. What did McFadden probably think of Bloom’s findings?

A. They came as no surprise. B. They needed to be proved.

C. They were of very little importance. D. They would help babies learn to speak.

10. The underlined phrase “put out” in the last paragraph can be understood as ________.

A. proud B. nervous C. excited D. unhappy

11. What is the main purpose of this text?

A. To introduce a puppet game. B. To improve humans’ moral sense.