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  3. It is, everyone agrees, a huge task that the child performs when he learns to speak, and the fact that he does so in so short a

It is, everyone agrees, a huge task that the child performs when he learns to speak, and the fact that he does so in so short a

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问题     It is, everyone agrees, a huge task that the child performs when he learns to speak, and the fact that he does so in so short a period of time challenges explanation.
    Language learning begins with listening. Individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and late starters are often long listeners. Most children will "obey" spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.
    Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out as particularly indicative of delight, distress, sociability, and so on. But since these cannot be said to show the baby’s intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new sounds to their repertoire (能发出的全部声音). This self-imitation leads on to deliberate (有意识的) imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.
The author’s purpose in writing the second paragraph is to show that children______.
选项 A、usually obey without asking questions
B、are passive in the process of learning to speak
C、are born cooperative
D、learn to speak by listening
答案D
解析 本题问的是作者写第二段的目的是想要表达孩子们怎样。根据第二段的内容，尤其是第一句主题句，学语言是从听人说话开始的。小孩子需要听人说多少话才能开口说话，因人而异，而且差异很大。开口迟的孩子往往需要经历一段很长的听人说话的过程。大多数小孩子在开口说话前，往往会按大人的意思去做这样或那样的动作，表示乐意配合大人学说话。在开口说话前许多小孩会做动作来提问和发出声响表示疑问。所以，本题的正确答案应是D。
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