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  3. Speech--the act of uttering sounds to convey meaning -- is a kind of human action. Like any other constantly【S1】______action, sp

Speech--the act of uttering sounds to convey meaning -- is a kind of human action. Like any other constantly【S1】______action, sp

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问题     Speech--the act of uttering sounds to convey meaning -- is a kind of human action. Like any other constantly【S1】______action, speaking has to be learned, but once it is learned, it becomes a generally【S2】______and apparently automatic process. As far as we can determine, human beings do not need to be forced to【S3】______; most babies seem to possess a sort of instinctive drive to produce speechlike noises. How to speak and what to say are another matter altogether. These actions are【S4】______from the particular society into which the baby is born; so that like all conduct that is learned from a society -from the people  around us speech is a patterned activity. The meandering babble and chatter of a young child are eventually  channeled by imitation into a few orderly grooves that represent the pattern accepted as meaningful  by the people around him.【S5】______,a child’ s indiscriminate practice of putting things into his mouth becomes limited to【S6】______food into his mouth in certain way. The【S7】______that a child can make are more varied and numerous than the sounds that any particular language【S8】______. However, a child born into a society with a pattern of【S9】______is encouraged to make a small selection of sounds and to make these few sounds over until it is natural fur him to make these sounds and【S10】______.

    A)restored                                     I)poetry.
    B)putting                                      J)unconscious
    C)language                                     K)learned
    D)repeated                                     L)Whereas
    E)others                                       M)speak
    F)Similarly                                    N)sequence
    G)sounds                                       O)reflected
    H)utilizes
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答案C
解析 此处考查语义的理解，language填入此句中后构成短语a society with a pattern of language，意为“一个具有一定语言模式的社会”。
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