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Why is the Native Language Learnt So Well? How does it happen that children learn their mother tongue so well? When we compa

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问题                  Why is the Native Language Learnt So Well?
    How does it happen that children learn their mother tongue so well? When we compare them with adults learning a foreign language, we often find this interesting fact. A little child without knowledge or experience often succeeds in a complete mastery of the language. A grown-up person with fully developed mental powers, in most case, may end up with a faulty and inexact command. What accounts for this difference?
    Despite other explanations, the real answer in my opinion lies partly in the child himself, partly in the behavior of the people around him. In the first place, the time of learning the mother tongue is the most favorable of all, namely, the first years of life. A child hears it spoken from morning till night and, what is more important, always in its genuine form, with the right pronunciation, right intonation, and right use of words and right structure. He drinks in all the words and expressions, which come to him in a flash, ever-bubbling spring. There is no resistance: there is perfect assimilation.
    Then the child has, as it were, private lessons all the year round, while an adult language-student has each week a limited number of hours, which he generally shares with others. The child has another advantage; he hears the language in all possible situations, always accompanied by the right kind of gestures and facial expressions. Here there is nothing unnatural, such as is often found in language lessons in schools, when one talks about ice and snow in June or scorching heat in January. And what a child hears is generally what immediately interests him. Again and again, when his attempts at speech are successful, his desires are understood and fulfilled.
    Finally, though a child’s "teachers" may not have been trained in language teaching, their relations with him are always close and personal. They take great pains to make their lessons easy.
A child learning his native language has the advantage of having private lessons all the year round.
选项 A、Right
B、Wrong
C、Not mentioned
答案B
解析 题干大意：儿童学习母语的优势是可以常年上私人辅导课。借助常识判断该句的说法不正确。利用答案线索词all the year round，我们很快在第三段的第一句中发现直接相关句。比较原句和问题句的结构，发现不同之处在于“as it were”的结构。当心：部分结构的差异往往是设置了陷阱。实际上，as it were：仿佛是。即原文说的是“仿佛是”，而题干说的就是“是”，此题考查虚拟语气，所以判断该问题句不正确。
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