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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

“If you want to see a thing well, reach out and touch it!”  That may seem a strange thing to say. But touching things can help you to see them better. Your eyes can tell you that a glass ball is round. But by holding it in your hands, you can feel how smooth and cool the ball is. You can feel how heavy the glass is. When you feel all these about the ball, you really see it. With your skin, you can feel better. For example, your fingers can tell the difference between two coins in your pocket. You can feel a little drop of water on the back of your hand, too.
All children soon learn what “Don’t touch!” means. They hear it often. Yet most of us keep on touching things as we grow up. In shops, we touch things as we might buy: food, clothes. To see something well, we have to touch it.
There are ways of learning to see well by feeling. One way is to close your eyes and try to feel everything that is touching your skin. Feel the shoes on your feet, the clothes on your body, the air on your skin. At first, it is not easy to feel these things. You are too used to them!
Most museums are just for looking. But today some museums have some things to touch. There you can feel everything on show. If we want to see better, reach out and touch. Then you will really see.
【小题1】 By touching things,________.