新東方：英語(yǔ)四級(jí)考試閱讀30天學(xué)習(xí)筆記

　　64. From the passage we learn that _________.

　　A) early starters can learn to speak within only six months

　　B) children show a strong desire to communicate by making noises

　　C) imitation plays an important role in learning to speak

　　D) children have various difficulties in learning to speak

　　65. The best title for this passage would be _________.

　　A) How Babies Learn to Speak

　　B) Early Forms of Language

　　C) A Huge Task for Children

　　D) Noise Making and Language Learning

　　注：標(biāo)題題

　　Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage:

　　It is, everyone agrees, a huge task that the child performs when he learns to speak, and the fact that he does so in so short a period of time challenges explanation.

　　注：1.everyone agree 大眾觀點(diǎn)

　　2.challenge 挑戰(zhàn)，難以解釋

　　61. By "... challenges explanation" ( Line 2, Para. 1) the author means that _________

　　A) no explanation is necessary for such an obvious phenomenon

　　B) no explanation has been made up to now

　　C) it's no easy job to provide an adequate explanation

　　D) it's high time that an explanation was provided

　　注：1.首句提出的觀點(diǎn)和事實(shí)是矛盾的關(guān)系，所以選C

　　2.no+名詞結(jié)構(gòu)是絕對(duì)化選項(xiàng)，最好不選,所以排除A和B項(xiàng)

　　3.it's high time that 早該做...后面接虛擬語(yǔ)氣

　　Language learning begins with listening. Individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and late starters are often long listeners. Most children will "obey" spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.

　　注：1.第一句結(jié)論句，主題句，段落首句是重要句

　　2.obey 服從

　　63. The author's purpose in writing the second paragraph is to show that children _________.

　　A) usually obey without asking questions

　　B) are passive in the process of learning to speak

　　C) are born cooperative

　　D) learn to speak by listening

　　注：段落主題題，第二段首句。A選項(xiàng) obey 出現(xiàn)，而文章中此詞帶引號(hào)，此項(xiàng)為干擾選項(xiàng)

　　Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out as particularly indicative of delight, distress, sociability, and so on. But since these cannot be said to show the baby' s intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new sounds to their repertoire (能發(fā)出的全部聲音). This self-imitation leads on to deliberate (有意識(shí)的) imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.