2009年12月大學英語六級考試模擬考卷(恩波)

　　60. What do elementary schools encourage children to do according to the passage?

　　A) To put all their time and energy into reading and math drills.

　　B) To do more quiet activities instead of active ones.

　　C) To use more recess time for hands-on activities.

　　D) To develop good virtues along with good academic performance.

　　61. What does the author want the parents to be aware of?

　　A) Their boys have emotional or behavioral problems.

　　B) The present way of educating children might have problems.

　　C) Children need more time and concern from parents.

　　D) It is no good sending children to preschools.

　　Part Ⅴ Cloze (15 minutes)

　　Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A),B),C), and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

　　注意：此部分試題在答題卡2上作答。

　　From childhood to old age, all of us have to use language as a means of broadening our knowledge of ourselves and the world around us. When humans first __62__, they were like

　　new-born children, unable to use this __63__ tool. Yet once language developed, the possibilities for human kind's future __64__ and cultural growth increased.

　　Many linguists believe that evolution is __65__ for human’s ability to produce and use

　　languages. They __66__ that our highly

　　evolved brain provides us __67__ an innate

　　language ability not found in lower __68__. Proponents (支持者) of this innateness theory say that our __69__ for language is inborn, but that language itself develops gradually, __70__ a function of the growth of the brain during childhood. Therefore there are critical __71__ times for language development.

　　Current__72__ of innateness theory are mixed, however, evidence supporting the existence of some innate abilities is undeniable. __73__, more and more schools are discovering that foreign languages are best taught in __74__ grades. Young children often can learn

　　several languages by being __75__ to them, while adults have a much harder time learning another language once the __76__ of their first language have become firmly fixed.

　　__77__ some aspects of language are undeniably innate, language does not develop automatically in a vacuum. Children who have been __78__ from other human beings do not possess languages. This demonstrates that __79__ with other human beings is necessary for proper language development. Some linguists believe that this is even more basic to human language __80__ than any innate capacities. These theorists view language as imitative, learned behavior. __81__, children learn language from their parents by imitating them. Parents gradually shape their children's language skills by positively reinforcing precise imitations and negatively reinforcing imprecise ones.