Can you remember the day when you spoke your first word? If you can, you are unusual. Try to imagine what first few months of your life were like. I am sure you just spent most of your time eating, sleeping and crying. As you grow older, you were awake more of the time. It took your parents more time to play with you and talk to you. You watched and listened curiously. You began to know that people made certain sounds to go with certain things.
Then you began to try making the sounds you heard. And step by step you were able to make the right sound for one thing.On that day you came to understand the secret of language. The secret is that a certain sound means a certain thing. One sound might be as good as another. But it is no good as a word unless everybody agrees on its meaning. Only when a group of people use the same set of sounds of things, can they understand each other. Then, and only then do these people have a LANGUAGE.
After you found the secret of language, you learned words. Some of the words meant things, such as BOOKS, CHAIRS and SHOES. Some words meant doing things, such as GO and SWIM. And other words describe things, such as GOOD and DIRTY. Soon you learned to put words together to express one’s idea, such as “I want to go out and play with my friends.” This is language. By means of language people can communicate. So we say languages are means of communication.
【小題1】When you were a little baby, you_________.

A．made sounds to let people know that you wanted to eat
B．spent most of your time playing with your parents
C．could not hear any sound around you
D．spent most of your time eating, playing and crying
【小題2】The secret of language is that___________.
A．one sound might be as good as another
B．people can understand each other
C．a(chǎn) certain sound is for a certain thing
D．there is a special sound for each person
【小題3】You could learn words__________.
A．before you knew what the language was
B．a(chǎn)fter you knew what the language was
C．if you knew the secret of the language
D．when you were a baby
【小題4】The aim in using language is___________.
A．to get everying one wants from others
B．to say what one wants to know
C．to share ideas, opinions, news, etc with one another
D．to make oneself understood by others


【小題1】D
【小題2】C
【小題3】B
【小題4】C

解析試題分析：文章講述了兒童學習語言的過程。
【小題1】D 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第一段第3行I am sure you just spent most of your time eating, sleeping and crying.說明D正確。
【小題2】C 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第二段第三行The secret is that a certain sound means a certain thing.說明C正確。
【小題3】B 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第三段第一句After you found the secret of language, you learned words.說明B正確。
【小題4】C 推理題。根據(jù)文章最后一句This is language. By means of language people can communicate. So we say languages are means of communication. 說明語言的目的是交流，故C正確。
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點評：本文是關(guān)于兒童學習語言的過程，對于細節(jié)題的考查很細致，考生要注意兒童學習語言的過程。

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