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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

Answer 1

答案：D;D;A;C;B