首页
登录
职称英语
Learning is an essential process for living things to acquire necessary skil
Learning is an essential process for living things to acquire necessary skil
游客
2024-04-21
52
管理
问题
Learning is an essential process for living things to acquire necessary skills and behaviors. Scientists have already found that there is a critical period for learning in man and animals. Once the right time for learning a skill or a certain behaviors has passed. This skill or behavior can never be properly learned.
That we speak our own language perfectly and the languages we learn later imperfectly also depends off learning this skill at the right time. The brain develops in such a way that it is ready to learn to speak between the ages of about ten months and ten years. Languages learned later are not spoken perfectly. The ability to speak a language is a mixed motor and sensory skill. It is necessary to hear all the sounds, the subtle differences between similar but not identical sounds, the rhythm and tone of the language. One has also to work tongue, throat, and lips to control breathing. All this has to be managed at one and the same time. From some time after birth until the age of six or seven, normal children all learn this perfectly, and without much difficulty they can learn two or even three languages at the same time, without confusing one with the other. But later, most of us cannot acquire this skill. We may learn to write and read the new language perfectly, but to acquire the right accent and the ability to speak so that no one can detect that the language is not our mother tongue hardly ever occurs.
But those of us who still want to learn foreign languages after these early milestones have been passed need not worry, for though we may not learn to speak a new language like the natives, we know from thousands of examples that we can go off learning languages beyond the age of eighty. There are so many activities adding up to the simple word "learning" that although some of the processes become less efficient with ageing of the brain, our actual experience of learning helps us in learning new materials. Normal social and emotional development probably also needs the correct stimulating at the right time. We can observe evidence of this in those rare cases of children who have been completely neglected from birth. Sometimes illegitimate children in the country—are put away in barns to conceal their existence from the neighbors. They are taught nothing, not even to be house trained or to speak. These children then grow up mentally defective. Even if they are found and rescued by the age of four or five, it is too late. Though they can be taught a lot, their speech is always inadequate and their brains never reach the standards of their brothers or sisters. [br] By saying that "to acquire the right accent. . . hardly ever occurs"(Para. 2), the author means that______.
选项
A、one cannot distinguish his mother tongue from a new language
B、one cannot speak a new language in exactly the same way as the natives
C、one cannot speak a new language as fluently as the natives
D、one cannot speak a new language as correctly as the natives
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3564789.html
相关试题推荐
Learningisanessentialprocessforlivingthingstoacquirenecessaryskil
[originaltext]W:Hi,John.Howarethingsgoing?M:Oh,hi.Fine.Howaboutyo
[originaltext]W:Hi,John.Howarethingsgoing?M:Oh,hi.Fine.Howaboutyo
[originaltext]W:Hi,John.Howarethingsgoing?M:Oh,hi.Fine.Howaboutyo
Awisemanoncesaidthattheonlythingnecessaryforthetriumphofevili
Awisemanoncesaidthattheonlythingnecessaryforthetriumphofevili
Awisemanoncesaidthattheonlythingnecessaryforthetriumphofevili
[originaltext]Allbigcitiesarequitesimilar.LivinginamodernAsianci
[originaltext]Allbigcitiesarequitesimilar.LivinginamodernAsianci
[originaltext]Allbigcitiesarequitesimilar.LivinginamodernAsianci
随机试题
[originaltext]Hello,I’mCallumRobertsonandyou’relisteningtothemusicsho
相对购买力平价说明的是()上汇率的变动。A.某一时点 B.某一时期 C.某一
患者,女,50岁。在针刺中,突然出现头晕目眩,多汗,四肢发冷,脉沉细,应首选A.
共用题干 UnderstandingAutism(孤独症)1Autism
声波是一种能够在(____)中传播机械振动波(A)固体(B)气体(C)真
当用成本法求得的价值大大高于用市场法或收益法求得的价值时,说明房地产市场不景气。
从职能上讲,总部应该成为集团的()。A.研发中心 B.资本中心 C.生产中心
人在每一瞬间,将心理活动选择了某些对象而忽略了另一些对象。这一特点指的是注意的(
关于法律事实的说法,正确的是()。A.法律事实不包括事件 B.罢工属于法律事实
肝硬化患者肝功能减退的临床表现不包括 A.齿龈出血 B.脾大 C.黄疸
最新回复
(
0
)