单选题 {{B}}Task 1{{/B}} {{B}}Directions:{{/B}}{{I}} After reading the following passage,
you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 to 40. For each
question or statement there are 4 choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should
make the correct choice arm mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet
with a single line through the center. {{/I}}
Experts say children can begin learning
a second language in preschool, and should begin before the age of ten to take
advantage of young children's natural ability to acquire language. This
advantage is lost by the time most children encounter (遇到) a foreign language in
the classroom, in middle school or high school. Dr. Noble Goss,
an assistant professor of Spanish and German at Harding University in Arkansas,
says, "As a father of bilingual (双语的) children (My wife is Mexican), I know that
not only it is easy for children to learn one or more languages, but they have
an amazing way of separating them out more successfully than you would think.
" If a child hears two languages early, he accepts both equally.
But if given a chance to speak both, can they be fluent in both?
Not everyone agrees that early childhood is the only time to start a
language, however. Reeves, the chairman and founder of the Center for
Performance Assessment in Denver, Colorado, points to the Defense Language
Institute's success at training adult students to speak other language
fluently. "The frequently quoted argument that post-adolescence
(青春期后) is too late to acquire foreign language skills is still a mystery," says
Reeves. Still, if children are going to devote the six years or
so of study it takes to master a second language, starting early just makes
sense.
单选题
Experts advise starting a foreign language early because{{U}} {{/U}}.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 根据题干关键词Experts定位到第一段第一句Experts say children can begin learning a second language in preschool...take advantage of young children's natural ability to acquire language可知，专家认为儿童可以在学龄前就开始学习外语，而且应该在10岁之前开始，以便利用儿童天生的语言学习能力。因此答案为A)。
[避错] B)“掌握一门语言要用很长的时间”，这一点在文章中并没有提及；文章第一段第二句提到当“绝大多数儿童”在进入中学开始学习外语的时候，这种优势就消失了，因此C)“语言能力会随年龄增长而减弱”过于绝对，是错误的：D)“儿童具有使所学的两种语言互不干扰的惊人能力”，强调的是儿童的双语学习能力，不是本题问题的直接原因，也为错误选项。
单选题
If a child lives iii a bilingual family, he will probably{{U}} {{/U}}.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 根据题干关键词bilingual定位到第二段，Dr. Noble Goss为双语家庭中的父亲。根据该段第二至四行他的话I know that not only it is easy for children to learn one or more languages，but they have an amazing way of separating them out more successfully than you would think.可知，儿童不仅可以轻松地学习一种或多种语言，还具有一种令你难以置信的惊人能力，使所学的多种语言互不干扰。所以正确答案为A)“在家说两种语言”。
[避错] B)“更快地学会一种语言”，C)“成为能力更强的语言学习者”，这两种说法过于笼统，不够准确，而且没有体现双语家庭儿童学习语言的优势；双语家庭中的孩子可以轻松地学习一种或两种语言，但并不意味着他们在语言学习上花的时间更少，因此D)是错误选项。
单选题
The reason why adults lose the skills in learning foreign language is{{U}} {{/U}}.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 根据题干关键词skills定位到第五段第一句...that post-adolescence is too late to acquire foreign language skills is still a mystery可知，过了青春期后就无法获得外语学习的技能的原因至今还是一个谜。因此答案为D)。
[避错] A)、B)、C)均与文意不符。
单选题
The phrase "make sense" in the last sentence probably means"{{U}} {{/U}}".
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 文章第一至三段说明儿童早点学外语的好处；第四至五段说明成人也可学好外语；最后一段用Still开头，表示转折。是对第一至三段的肯定，因此根据最后一段Still，if children are going to devote the six years or So of study it takes to master a second language，starting early just makes sense.可知，如果一个孩子想用六年左右的时间学会一门外语，早点开始还是不错的。所以B)“早点开始是有道理的”是正确的。
[避错] A)“早点开始并不是个好主意”，与文意相悖：C)“早点开始可以使人对语言有敏感性”，原文未提及；D)”早点开始可以使人学得更好”，成年人一样可学好外语，因此D)错误。