In accordance with the passage, one can define "talking" as ................. A) the first means for a child to communicate with
others
B) the positive proof that a language is being learned
C) the manifestation of a child's physical
development
D) the first step towards acquiring a language
E) a way of building up a vocabulary
3. A subject in which there has been lots of interest
recently is the acquisition of language. 'Normal'
children, that is, those who have not had a
particularly rich environment usually begin talking
after the first year of their life. By eighteen months,
they have a vocabulary of about half a dozen words
and at two years a vocabulary of more than a
hundred words. The traditional view has been that
during the first year of life, babies are not mature
enough to learn languages. Talking, however, is only
the outer manifestation of the development of the
language long before he first utters a meaningful
word a baby can be observed responding to the
language of the others.
The passage makes tells that we now have .............. A) a revised review of language acquisition among
normal children
B) a distorted view of how a child begins to
communicate
C) returned to the traditional theory concerning
language acquisition among children
D) a rather contradictory theory concerning the
acquisition of language by two-year-olds
E) the means and techniques to speed up vocabulary
acquisition among one-year-olds
4. Economic dynamics have resolutely shifted from the
national economy to the world economy. From now
on, any country - and also any business, especially a
large one - that wants to prosper will have to accept
that it is the world economy that leads and that
domestic economic policies will succeed only if they
strengthen, or at least, do not impair the country's
international competitive position. This may be the
most important. It surely is the most striking feature
of the changed world economy.
