2. 外语
  3. Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged?(1)____

Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged?(1)____

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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?(1)______ the drastic experiment of Frederick II in the thirteenth century, it may be. Hoping to discover(2)______ language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep (3)______.
    All the infants died before the first years. But clearly there was more than (4)______ language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the(5)______ to survive is seriously affected.
    Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by Frederick.(6)______, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the(7)______ for this is that the mother is insensitive to the(8)______ of the infant, whose brain(9)______ to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for(10)______ skills passes and they might never be learned so(11)______ again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at the right time, but the process is slow and hard(12)______ the critical stage has passed.
    Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a(13)______ age, but there are cases (14)______ speech has started late in a child who eventually(15)______ to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like(16)______; at twelve months he can(17)______ simple words and understand simple commands; at eighteen months he has a (18)______ of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1,000 words which he can(19)______ sentences, and at four his language differs from (20)______ of his parents in style rather than grammar.
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选项 A、before
B、unless
C、until
D、once
答案D
解析 关联词题。once在此处并非表示“一次”，而是用作连词，意为“一旦”，连接but之后的内容，意为：一旦关键时期过去，学习过程就变得很漫长。故D正确。
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