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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 cases, 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 (纯正的) form, with the right pronunciation, right intonation, right use of words and right structure. He drinks in all the words and expressions which come to him in a fresh, ever-bubbling spring. There is no resistance: there is perfect assimilation (吸收).
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 scorch 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.
1.We can infer from the passage that ________.
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A.an adult can learn a foreign language better than a child can
B.a child can learn his mother tongue better than an adult
C.an adult can learn his mother tongue better than a child can learn a foreign language
D.a child can learn his mother tongue better than an adult can learn a foreign language
2.Compared with children, ________.
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A.adults have little language learning experience
B.adults have little knowledge of language
C.adults can learn foreign languages quickly
D.adults have fully developed powers
3.When learning his mother tongue, a child ________.
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A.has a lot of practice in listening and speaking
B.drinks a lot of fresh water in an ever bubbling spring
C.tries to resist any possible pressure from adults
D.spends the most favorable time of his life assimilating everything.
4.A child learning the native language has all the advantages EXCEPT ________.
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A.hearing the language spoken in its genuine form
B.hearing the language spoken in all possible situations
C.having private lessons all the year round
D.having natural and interesting language contacts
5.The last explanation the author gives for children’s success is that ________.
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A.their “teachers” are usually language experts
B.they have intimate (close) relations with their “teachers”
C.their desires are always fulfilled by their “teachers”
D.their language lessons are always made interesting
科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:053
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Many American presidents in the 19th century were born in poor families. They spent their child-hood in little wooden rooms. They got little education. Washington and Lincoln, for example, never went to school and they taught themselves. Lincoln once did jobs of a worker, shop-keeper and post-master in his early years.
A large number of American presidents had experiences in the army. The two best known were Ulysses Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Grant was a general in the American Civil War and Eisenhower was a hero in the Second World War. It happened that they graduated from the same school?--West Point Military Academy (西点军校). One maybe surprised to learn that both of them did not do well in the school. Eisenhower, for example, was once fined (罚款) because he broke the rules of the school.
The jobs of U. S. presidents are tiring. He must keep an eye on anything important which happens both at home and abroad. Every day, a lot of work waits for him to do and he has to make many important decisions (决定). When Franklin Roosevelt was a child, he was once brought to visit President Taft. The old president said to him, “When you grow up, you should not be president. It's a tiring job. ”
1.How many American presidents are mentioned (提到) in this passage?
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A.Four. |
B.Five. |
C.Six. |
D.Seven. |
2.Who regarded the jobs of U. S. presidents as the tiring ones?
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A.Grant. |
B.Roosevelt. |
C.Eisenhower. |
D.Taft. |
3.In this passage, “keep an eye on”means ________.
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A.take care of |
B.see |
C.look at fixedly |
D.stare at |
4.The second paragraph mainly tells up ________.
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A.that Eisenhower became famous in the 2nd World War
B.how Grant became a general
C.that Grant and Eisenhower were both schoolmates
D.that many of the U. S. presidents had served in the army
5.Which of the following is true?
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A.Eisenhower was one of the U. S. presidents in the 19th century.
B.Lincoln was elected the U. S. president after Grant.
C.West Point Military Academy was founded in the 2nd World War.
D.Washington was born in a very poor family.
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Animals seem to have the sense to eat when they are hungry and they do not eat more than their bodies need. It has been demonstrated (证实) that rats will, when given a choice over a period of time, prefer water with vitamins (维生素) to water without vitamins, even though there is no difference in taste or smell between the two water bottles. When a fragrant flavor (香味) was added to the vitamin—enriched liquid, the rats did seem to develop a taste for it and kept drinking it, even after the vitamins were switched (转) to the clear water. In time, however, they broke the habit and went back to where the necessary vitamins were.
In an experiment, babies of 6 to 12 months old were placed in a cafeteria (自助食堂) with a wide selection of baby food before them. They were given whatever food they pointed to or appeared interested in. We are told that at first they showed some unusual eating patterns, but over a period of time they managed to select a well balanced diet (饮食).
So, in selecting food, rats and babies do seem to know and act on what's best for them. Clearly, there is a kind of "body wisdom" which humans soon lose. Most of us do not eat as wisely as we could. Many of our food preferences are culturally determined and influenced (影 响) by long-established habits. Some people eat fox, dog and blackbirds, while we eat cows and pigs. So what people eat and how much they eat seems to be greatly influenced by what is going on around them.
(1)In the experiment on rats, a fragrant flavor was added to the rat's drinking water to ________.
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A. encourage rats to drink it
B. find out what kind of flavor rats prefer
C. test whether rats know which drink is with fragrant flavor
D. demonstrate that vitamins are tasteless
(2)The expression "the habit" in the first paragraph refers to drinking water which __________.
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A. has no smell B. is tasteless
C. has vitamins D. is flavored
(3)As far as their eating habits are concerned, babies and rats are similar (相似) because ___________.
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A. both have the wisdom to choose a balanced diet
B. both prefer flavored food and drink
C. both have the same eating patterns
D. both develop a taste for the same kinds of flavors
(4)In the experiment mentioned in the second paragraph, babies were _________.
A. given many choices of drinks
B. provided with various kinds of baby food
C. placed and fed in a cafeteria
D. trained to select a balanced diet
(5)According to the passage, adults' (成年人) eating habits differ from those of babies because ____________.
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A. adults know better than babies what kinds of food are good for their health
B. adults usually cannot resist the temptation of various delicious foods
C. adults' eating habits are closely related to the social and cultural customs
D. adults have more choices of food than babies in eating patterns
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