A study of young children's ability to learn foreign languages found that those with parents who read them more than one book per week in their native language were 75% more proficient in the foreign languages that they learned than children whose parents read them one book per week or less. A secondary finding of the study was that children's ability to remember new vocabulary in a second language drops off sharply after the age of 6, when it becomes 75% more difficult to retain new words learned in the second language.
Assuming the statements above are true, which of the following can be inferred from them?
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AThe ease of learning a second language depends almost exclusively on environmental factors.
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BA student whose parents only read one book a week to her only has a 25% chance of mastering a foreign language.
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CStudents whose parents enter them in early education and who read to them frequently are more likely to have extra income and more free time.
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DProficient speakers of a second language are likely to have begun learning it before the age of 6.
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EStudents who begin studying a language later in life would have had an easier time learning some aspects of that language if they had begun studying it as a young child.
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正确答案: E