环球阅读七年级第四期答案英语

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环球阅读七年级第四期答案英语

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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 the 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 makes

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

toy-bear with the sound pattern “toy-bear.” 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.

1. The purpose of Frederick II’s experiment was ________.

A. to prove that children are born with the ability to speak

B. to discover what language a child would speak without

hearing any human speech

C. to find out what role careful nursing would play in

teaching a child to speak

D. to prove that a child could be damaged without

learning a language

2. The reason some children are backward in speaking is

most probably that ________.

are incapable of learning language rapidly

B .they are exposed to too much language at once

C .their mothers respond inadequately to their attempts

to speak

D. their mothers are not intelligent enough to help them

3. What is exceptionally remarkable about a child is that

________.

A. he is born with the capacity to speak

B. he has a brain more complex than an animal’s

can produce his own sentences

D. he owes his speech ability to good nursing

4. Which of the following can NOT be inferred from the

passage?

faculty of speech is inborn in man.

B. Encouragement is anything but essential to a child in

language learning.

child’s brain is highly selective.

children learn their language in definite stages.

5. If a child starts to speak later than others, he will

________.

a high IQ

B. be less intelligent

C. be insensitive to verbal signals

D .not necessarily be backward

答案：

1.B 2.C 3.D 4.C 5.A

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