首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Learning is an essential process for living things to acquire necessary skills and behaviors. Scientists have already found that
Learning is an essential process for living things to acquire necessary skills and behaviors. Scientists have already found that
admin
2015-04-30
43
问题
Learning is an essential process for living things to acquire necessary skills and behaviors. Scientists have already found that there is a critical period for learning in man and animals. Once the right time for learning a skill or a certain behaviors has passed, this skill or behavior can never be properly learned.
That we speak our own language perfectly and the languages we learn later imperfectly also depends on learning this skill at the right time. The brain develops in such a way that it is ready to learn to speak between the ages of about ten months and ten years. Languages learned later are not spoken perfectly. The ability to speak a language is a mixed motor and sensory skill. It is necessary to hear all the sounds, the subtle differences between similar but not identical sounds, the rhythm and tone of the language. One has also to work tongue, throat, and lips to control breathing. All this has to be managed at one and the same time. From some time after birth until the age of six or seven, normal children all learn this perfectly, and without much difficulty they can learn two or even three languages at the same time, without confusing one with the other. But later, most of us cannot acquire this skill. We may learn to write and read the new language perfectly, but to acquire the right accent and the ability to speak so that no one can detect that the language is not our mother tongue hardly ever occurs.
But those of us who still want to learn foreign languages after these early milestones have been passed need not worry, for though we may not learn to speak a new language like the natives, we know from thousands of examples that we can go on learning languages beyond the age of eighty. There are so many activities adding up to the simple word "learning" that although some of the processes become less efficient with ageing of the brain, our actual experience of learning helps us in learning new materials.
Normal social and emotional development probably also needs the correct stimulating at the right time. We can observe evidence of this in those rare cases of children who have been completely neglected from birth. Sometimes illegitimate children in the country are put away in barns to conceal their existence from the neighbors. They are taught nothing, not even to be house-trained or to speak. These children then grow up mentally defective. Even if they are found and rescued by the age of four or five, it is too late. Though they can be taught a lot, their speech is always inadequate and their brains never reach the standards of their brothers or sisters.
The author cites the case of illegitimate children to show that______.
选项
A、children should also be taken good care of at their early age
B、the development of brain stops at a rather early age
C、early age is crucial to development in other aspects as language
D、intelligence is affected by the capacity of language learning
答案
C
解析
推理题。引用私生子的例子是为了强调最后一段的中心意思及这一段的第一句,即社会情感的发展也有关键期。私生子因为错过了学习的早期阶段,长大后即使有人教,也不能学得很好。也就是说,早期阶段对发展语言能力和其他方面一样重要。故选C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/H4h7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
Quiteoften,educatorstellfamiliesofchildrenwhoarelearningEnglishasasecondlanguagetospeakonlyEnglish,andnotth
Quiteoften,educatorstellfamiliesofchildrenwhoarelearningEnglishasasecondlanguagetospeakonlyEnglish,andnotth
Itisimportantthatwebemindfuloftheearth,theplanetoutofwhichwearebornandbywhichwearenourished,guided,heal
A、Literaryworkscallingfortheabolitionofslavery.B、ReligiousscriptspopularamongslavesinAmerica.C、Arichstockofma
Callitthe"learningparadox":themoreyoustruggleandevenfailwhileyou’retryingtolearnnewinformation,thebetteryou
A、OntheKing’sseat.B、InfrontoftheKing.C、Infrontofeveryone.D、Alongwayfromtheimportantguests.B选项均为表示地点状语的词组表明,本
A、Theinterviewee’sskills.B、Theinterviewee’spersonality.C、Theinterviewee’sformercolleagues.D、Theinterviewee’ssuitabil
OneofthoserarelocalcreationsofAmerica,cowboypoetryhasalongandvividhistory,drivenbyitscolourfulpractitioners
EachyearUniversum,aSwedishconsultingfirm,asksAmericanMBAstudentswheretheywouldmostliketowork.The2007surveys
EachyearUniversum,aSwedishconsultingfirm,asksAmericanMBAstudentswheretheywouldmostliketowork.The2007surveys
随机试题
约稿信的内容不包括()。
按照资本资产定价模型,影响单个证券的投资者要求的收益率的因素包括__________、__________、__________、__________。
OnlineDatingOnlinedatingisadatingsystemwhichallowspeopletomakecontactandcommunicatewitheachotheroverthe
下列选项中,不属于结核性腹膜炎临床特点的是
目前非手术治疗原发性肝癌首选方法是
树状管网水力的计算过程是()。
承担某公路工程项目施工任务的某施工单位根据有关文件和资料对该公路工程质量控制设置了关键点,该工程技术总负责人负责对技术文件、报告、报表进行审核和分析,在具体施工中遇到以下情况:(1)由于第三方的原因,该工程被迫停工,停工时项目经理组织有关人员对其质
某股份公司利润表中的“净利润”项目为2000万元,资产负债表中的“未分配利润”项目为800万元。年末股东大会批准董事会的决议,按净利润的10%提取法定盈余公积。假设不考虑其他因素的影响,该公司可供普通股股东分配的利润为()万元。
细胞是人体新陈代谢的主要场所,下图所示是肝细胞中所进行的有关化学变化,请据图回答: 在肝细胞B中完成③过程的酶是
下列各项中,属于行政行为的有()。
最新回复
(
0
)