1996年12月年夜学英语四级试题
Passage Three
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage:
It is , everyone agrees, a huge task that the child performs when he learns to speak, and the fact that he does soin so short a period of time challenges explanation.Language learning begins with listening. Individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and late starters are often long listeners. Most children will "obey" spoken instructions sometime before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gestureand by IT questioning noises.Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy IT noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out as particularly indicative of delight, distress, sociability, and so on . But since these cannot be said to show the babys intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language.It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new sounds to their repertoire This self-imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds made or wordsspoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.61. By "……challenges explanation" (Line 2, Para.1) the author means that ______.A) no explanation is necessary for such an obvious phenomenonB) no explanation has been made up to nowC) its no easy job to provide an adequate explanationD) its high time that an explanation was provided62. The third paragraph is mainly about _________A) the development of babies early forms of languageB) the difficulties of babies in learning to speakC) babies strong desire to communicateD) babies intention to communicate63. The authors purpose in writing the second paragraph is to show that children _______.A) usually obey without asking questionsB) are passive the process of learning to speakC) are born cooperativeD) learn to speak by listening64. From the passage we learn that _______-A) early starters can learn to speak within only six monthsB) children show a strong desire to communicate by IT noisesC) imitation plays an important role in learning to speakD) children have various difficulties in learning to speak65. The best title for this passage would be _______.A) How Babies Learn to SpeakB) Early Forms of LanguageC) A Huge Task for ChildrenD) Noise Making and Language Learning
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