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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 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 culture growth increased.
     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】______ innate language ability not found in lower 【C7】______ . Proponents of this innate- ness 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. Therefore 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 been 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 developments. Some linguists believe that this is even more basic to human language 【C19】______ than any innate capacities. These theories 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] 【C20】
选项 A、Above all
B、In other words
C、After all
D、As a result
答案 B
解析 语义衔接题。上文说语言是学习得来的，是模仿行为的结果。紧接着换一种说法，解释说也就是从父母那里模仿学来的，故正囚符合文意。above all“最重要，首先”；after all“毕竟”；as a result“结果”。
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