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Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critic

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问题     Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged?【C1】______ the drastic experiment of Frederick II in the thirteenth century, it may be. Hoping to discover【C2】______ language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep【C3】______.
    All the infants died before the first years. But clearly there was more than【C4】______ language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the【C5】______ to survive is seriously affected.
    Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by Frederick.【C6】______, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the【C7】______ for this is that the mother is insensitive to the【C8】______ of the infant, whose brain【C9】______ to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for【C10】______ skills passes and they might never be learned so【C11】______ again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at the right time, but the process is slow and hard【C12】______ the critical stage has passed.
    Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a【C13】______ age, but there are cases【C14】______ speech has started late in a child who eventually【C15】______ to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like【C16】______; at twelve months he can【C17】______ simple words and understand simple commands; at eighteen months he has a【C18】______ of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1,000 words which he can【C19】______ sentences, and at four his language differs from【C20】______ of his parents in style rather than grammar. [br] 【C15】
选项 A、turns on
B、turns out
C、turns up
D、turns in
答案 B
解析 固定搭配题。turn on意为“打开”，turn out指“结果是，证明”，turn up“出现，到达”，turn in“交还，上交”。其中只有rurn out才能表达“有的孩子很晚才学会说话”与“具有很高的智商”之间的转折关系，故B正确。
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