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According to the author, children don't learn another language if they don't have to.
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What can you learn from the survey done by the government's Equalities office？
A．Most parents feel they don't have very good relationship with their children.
B．When children get older, parents don't need to spend much time with them
C．Most parents surveyed want more time to help children with their homework.
D．Most parents favor the idea of having flexible working hours.
What do we learn about later children in a family from a recent study of birth order？
A．They are less principle.
B．They stick to principles.
C．They want to do things on their own.
D．They don't like to take chances.
What can we learn about later children in a family from a recent study of birth order？
A．They usually follow orders.
B．They don't take chances.
C．They don't live with the other family members.
D．They are more likely to be successful in life.
Now,scientists still don't really know______．
A．whether animals can think about the past and the future
B．how children learn and what happens when we speak
C．why animals can understand some things more quickly than human beings
D．at what age,a child can speak his language very well
What can we learn from the passage？
A．Corruption contributes to the underdevelopment of education in West Africa as well as the lack of funding.
B．Most parents don"t care about the education budget in Africa.
C．The most important task at present is to enroll all school-age children into schools.
D．West African countries call for financial supports to aid children to go to school until completing higher education.
M: If you want your kids to be polite, you'll have to be polite to them.
Q: What conclusion can be drawn from this conversation？
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A．Children learn by example.
B．Children must not tell lies.
C．Children don't like discipline.
D．Children must control their temper.
Learning a language
When Do We Learn a Language？
Children begin learning languages at birth(infants pay attention to their parents' voices, as opposed to random noises or even other languages), and haven't really mastered the subtleties before the age of ten years. Indeed, we never really stop learning our language. This isn't exactly the sort of behavior(like foals walking an hour after birth) that we call "instinct" in animals.
Do We Learn When We Don't Have to？
But at least it's effortless, isn't it？ Well, no, as we can see when children have a choice of languages to learn. What's found is that, to be frank, children don't learn a language if they can get away with not learning it.
Many an immigrant family in the U.S. intends to teach their child their native language; and for the first few years it goes swimmingly so much so that the parents worry that the child won't learn English. Then the child goes to school, picks up English, and within a few years the worry is reversed: the child still understands his parents, but responds in English. Eventually the parents may give up, and the home language becomes English.
People's Influence
A child is likely to end up as a fluent speaker of a language only if there are significant people in her life who speak it: a nanny who only speaks Spanish, a relative who doesn't speak English, etc. Once a child discovers that his parents understand English perfectly well, he's likely to give up on the home language, even in the face of strong disapproval from the parents.
It's a myth that children learn to speak mainly from their parents. They don't: they learn mostly from their peers. This is most easily seen among children of immigrants, whether they come from differing language backgrounds or merely different dialect areas: the children invariably come to speak the dialect of their neighborhood and school, not that of their parents.(I found a neat example of this in my college's alumni magazine: A liberal family in Mississippi sent their daughter to the public schools, which except for her were all black. She grew up speaking fluent African-American Vernacular English.)
Do We Need Grammar？
Supporters of the "language instinct" make much of the fact that children learn to speak without formal instruction—indeed, they notoriously ignore explicit corrections.
Very little of what we learn is through formal instruction. Children aren't schooled in video games, either, yet they pick them up with the same seeming ease.
The apparent effortlessness is largely an illusion caused by psychological distance. We just don't remember how hard it was to learn language. (In fact, there's some studies suggesting that memory is tied to language, so that we can't remember the language learning process.) The perception of effortlessness should be balanced, anyway, by the universal amusement(which some cartoonists have been mining for nearly half a century) over children's language mistakes.
Do Children Learn Faster？
One may fall back on the position that languages may be hard for children to learn, but at least they do it better than adults. This, however, turns out to be surprisingly difficult to prove. Singleton examined hundreds of studies, and found them resoundingly ambiguous. Quite a few studies, in fact, find that adult learners progress faster than children. Even in phonetics, sometimes the last stronghold of the kids-learn-free position, there are studies finding that adults are better at recognizing and producing foreign sounds.
Now, I think Singleton misses a key point in understanding this discrepancy: the studies he reviews compare children vs. adults who are learning languages. That's quite reasonable, and indeed it's hard to imagine an alternative approach; but th
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Now, scientists still don't really know______．
A．whether animals can think about the past and the future
B．how children learn and what happens when we speak
C．why animals can understand some things more quickly than human beings
D．at what age, a child can speak his language very well
听力原文： When my son Ryan saw a T-shirt on sale for 5 dollars marked down from 8, he told me, "We'll save 3 dollars (32)if we buy it now. " He looked at me in surprise when I answered, "We'll save 5 dollars if we don't hay it at all. "
Today's children get lots of messages and values from television and from friends. They are encouraged to buy things they don't need. (33)What they need is an understanding of the value of the dollar. How do children learn the important facts of life？ Most schools do not teach them. It is up to parents to help their children.
To learn about money children need to have some. Early on, parents often handed oat money on an as-needed basis. But experts say paying certain amount of money each week is the best way to teach children the meaning of money, how to use it and how to plan.
But how much should the parents give？ Some experts suggest giving one dollar for each year of age, but (34)Dr. Olivia Mellan disagrees: " I think 5 dollars a week is too much for a 5-year-old, and 15 dollars is probably not enough for a 15-year-old." What's right depends on three things: the child's level of development, how much you can give, and what you expect him to pay for.
However much you give them, children will soon feel they need more. But Sharon M. Danes, a professor at the University of Minnesota, insists that children don't need a raise each year. "There's no lesson to be learned when children expect an increase just because they are a year older," she says. (35)"What they should learn is how to be good money earners, savers and spenders."
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A．To save 3 dollars.
B．To buy it at once.
C．To ask 3 dollars from the parent.
D．To save 5 dollars.
