Question

Can you remember the day when you spoke your first words? If you can, you are unusual. During the first months of your life, you just spent most of your time eating, sleeping and crying. As you grew older, your parents spent more time playing with you and talking to you. You watched and listened. You began to know that people make some sounds to go with some things.

Then you began to cry to make sounds you heard. And step by step (逐渐地) you were able to make the right sound for one thing.On that day you came to understand the secret of the language(语言). It is that a certain sound means a certain thing. Only when a group of people use the same set of sounds of things can they understand each other, so these people have a language.After you found the secret of language, you learnt words. Some of the words mean things, like books, chairs and shops. Some of the words mean actions, for example, go and swim. Soon you learnt to put words together to share your idea, like “I want to go out and play with my friends.”

This is language. By the way of language, people can communicate (交流), so we say languages mean sharing.

1. can remember the day when we spoke our first words.

A. Few of us B. Some of us C. Most of us D. All of us

2.When you were a little baby, you .

A. tried to remember all the sounds

B. spent your time playing with your parents

C. couldn’t hear any sounds around you

D. spent your time eating, sleeping and crying

3.The secret of language is that .

A. one sound might be as good as another

B. there is a special sound for each other

C. people can understand each other

D. a certain sound is for a certain thing

4.What does “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to(指代) ?

A. The language B. The sound C. The secret D. The certain thing

Answer 1