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  3. From childhood to old age, we all use language as a means of broadening our

From childhood to old age, we all use language as a means of broadening our

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问题      From childhood to old age, we all use language as a means of broadening our knowledge of ourselves and the world about us. When humans first 【C1】______ , they were like newborn children, unable to use this 【C2】______  tool. Yet once language developed, the possibilities for human kinds future 【C3】______ and cultural growth in- creased.
   Many linguists believe that evolution is 【C4】______  for our ability to produce and use language. They 【C5】______ that our highly evolved brain provides us 【C6】______ an innate language ability not found in lower 【C7】______ . Proponents of this innateness theory say that our 【C8】______ for language is inborn, but that language itself develops gradually, 【C9】______ a function of the growth of the brain during childhood. There- fore there are critical 【C10】______ times for language development.
     Current 【C11】______ of innateness theory are mixed, however, evidence supporting the existence of some innate abilities is undeniable. 【C12】______ . more and more schools are discovering that foreign languages are best taught in 【C13】______ grades. Young children often can learn several languages by being 【C14】______ to them, while adults have a much harder time learning another language once the 【C15】______  of their first language have become firmly fixed.
    【C16】______ some aspects of language are undeniably innate, language does not develop automatically in a vacuum. Children who have been 【C17】______  from other human beings do not possess language. This demonstrates that 【C18】______ with other human beings is necessary for proper language development. Some linguists believe that this is even more basic to human language 【C19】______ than any innate capacities. These theorists view language as imitative, learned behavior. 【C20】______ , children learn language from their parents by imitating them. Parents gradually shape their child’s language skills by positively reinforcing precise imitations and negatively reinforcing imprecise ones. [br] 【C8】
选项 A、potential
B、performance
C、preference
D、passion
答案 A
解析 题型：词汇题；上下文题。此句意思是人类的语言能力是与生俱来的，但语言本身也在逐渐发展，所以这种能力应该是潜在的。potential潜力；performance履行；preference偏爱；passion激情。
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