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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?(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. [br] (15)
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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