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　　Language learning begins from listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they need before they start speaking, and children who start speaking late are often long listeners. Most children will “obey” spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word “obey” can hardly describe the cooperation shown by the children. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gestures and by making noises.

　　It is agreed that babies enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or tow special noises are used by them to show their happiness, pains, friendliness, and so on. But since these can not be said to be a kind of communication, they can hardly be regarded as earlier forms of language. From about three months old they play with sounds for enjoyment, and by six months they are able to add new sounds to their store. This self－imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises that these imitations can be considered as speech.

　　It is a problem we need not get our teeth into. The meaning of the word depends on, what a special person means by it in special situation; and what a child means by a word will change as he gets more experience of the word.

　　Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself. I wonder, however, whether anything is gained when parents try to use this ability to teach new sounds.

1．Before children start speaking, ________.

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A．they need equal amounts of listening

B．they need different amounts of listening

C．they can all cooperate with the adults by obeying spoken instructions

D．they can't understand and obey the adults' spoken instructions

2．Children who start speaking late ________.

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A．may have problem with their hearing

B．probably dot not hear enough language spoken around them

C．usually pay close attention to what they hear

D．often take a long time in learning to listen properly

3．The problem that a baby's imitations can be considered as speech ________.

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A．is important because words have different meanings for different people

B．is not especially important because the changeover takes place gradually

C．is one that can never be properly understood because the meaning of the word changes with age

D．is one that should be completely ignored because children's use of word is often meaningless

4．A baby's first noises are ________.

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A．a reflection of his moods and feelings

B．a early form of language

C．a sign that he means to tell you something

D．a imitation of the speech of adults

5．From the last paragraph we know that ________.

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A．parents are never hope to teach their children new sounds

B．children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak for themselves

C．children who are good at imitating learn new sounds more quickly

D．even after they have learnt to speak children still enjoy imitating

Answer 1

答案：B;D;B;A;D