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
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judgin
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judgin
admin
2018-02-08
31
问题
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the drastic experiment of Frederick II in the thirteenth century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent. All the infants died before the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the capacity to survive is seriously affected.
Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by Frederick. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at right time, but the process is slow and hard once the critical stage has passed.
Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and utters vowel—like sounds: at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple commands: at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1, 000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.
Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the capacity to speak. What is special about man’ s brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a teddybear with the sound pattern "teddybear". And even more incredible is the young brain’ s ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him, to analyze, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways.
But speech has to be induced, and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child, where the mother recognizes the signals in the child’s babbling, grasping and smiling, and responds to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals dulls the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the child’s non-verbal signals is essential to the growth and development of language.
Which of the following is NOT implied in the passage?
选项
A、The faculty of speech is inborn in man.
B、The child’ s brain is highly selective.
C、Most children learn their language in definite stages.
D、Children do not need to be encouraged to speak.
答案
D
解析
推断题。根据短文最后一段第一句But speech has to be induced可知言语需要诱发,即需要鼓励孩子说话,故D项表述不符合文意。故选项D正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/iMa7777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
A、Words.B、Toneofvoice.C、Sentencestructures.D、Sounds.B四个选项均是名词(词组),与语言有关。本题在最后,应在短文末尾处找答案。themainthingincommunicating指的
A、Itisthesourceofallartisticwork.B、Itstartssoonafterweareborn.C、Itissomethingpeopleallengagein.D、Ithelps
A、Ithasspecialsummerhoursonlyonweekends.B、Ithasspecialsummerhoursbothweekdaysandweekends.C、Ithasnospecialsu
A、Usinglessinsecticide.B、Givingtheplantsup.C、Sprayingcropsfrequently.D、Tryingotherinsecticide.A短文提到了科学家给农场主的三点建议:少用
Apaper,Anatomy(剖析)ofaLargeScaleSocialSearchEngine,layingoutastrategyforsocialsearchhasbeengettingagooddeal
Apaper,Anatomy(剖析)ofaLargeScaleSocialSearchEngine,layingoutastrategyforsocialsearchhasbeengettingagooddeal
A、Herhomeistoofarawayfromheruniversity.B、HerparentshavebeenvolunteeringinSouthAmerica.C、Sheistoobusytovisi
Millionsofteenagersareindangerofputtingtheirhealthatriskbygettinghookedone-cigarettes,expertswarn.Leadinghea
A、Theydon’twanttheirpresentbossestoknowwhatthey’redoing.B、Theywanttoearnmoneyfrombothjobs.C、Theycannotearn
Thepopularnotionthatolderpeopleneedlesssleepthanyoungeradultsisamyth,scientistssaidyesterday.Whileelderly
随机试题
下列关于应付债券的说法中,正确的有()。
《冯谖客孟尝君》中,孟尝君失势被逐后“就国于薛”意味着()
A.血尿B.蛋白尿C.脓尿D.乳糜尿E.脂质尿急性肾小球肾炎最具特征性的尿异常是
男,47岁。因呼吸困难和水肿入院。查体发现颈静脉怒张,肝在右肋缘下4cm,表面光滑,轻度压痛,双下肢压陷性水肿。该患者心音不会出现下列哪种改变
某矩形截面钢筋混凝土构件。截面b×h=300mm×500mm,混凝土强度等级为C30,箍筋采用HPB300,纵向受力钢筋为HRB335,as=35mm。构件上无集中荷载作用,截面受扭塑性抵抗矩Wt=18×106mm2,Ucor=1400mm,Acor=11
在现金日记账中,如果摘要栏的内容是“从银行提取现金”;则对方科目栏应填写“现金”。
两个处于不同行业的企业之间不会存在相互竞争行为。()
下列关于各类期权的说法,正确的有()。
Attheveryendof2013,asothernewspaperswarnedofaterriblefloodofmigrants,TheEconomistinvitedBulgariansandRoman
Malariakilled435,000peoplelastyear,mostoftheminAfrica.Theparasitethatcausestheillnessiscarriedbyfemalesofs
最新回复
(
0
)