英语专业八级改错模拟题(第19篇)
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专八练习题： When a human infant is born into any community in any part of the world it has two things in common with any infant, provided neither of them __1__ have been damaged in any way either before or during birth. Firstly, and most __2__ obviously, new born children are completely helpless. Apart from a powerful capacity to pay attention to their helplessness by using sound, there is nothing __3__ the new born child can do to ensure his own survival. Without care from some other human being or beings, be it mother, grandmother, or human group, a child is very unlikely to survive. This helplessness of human infants is in marked contrast with the capacity of many new born animals to get on their feet within __4__ minutes of birth and run with the herd within a few hours. Although young animals are certainly in risk, sometimes for weeks or even months after birth, __5__ compared with the human infant, they very quickly develop the capacity to fend for them. __6__www.for68.com It is during this very long period in which the human infant is totally dependent on the others that it reveals the second feature which it shares with all __7__ other undamaged human infants, a capacity to learn language. For this reason, biologists now suggest that language be “ species specific” to the human race, __8__ that is to say, they consider the human infant to be genetic programmed in __9__ such way that it can acquire language. This suggestion implies that just __10__ as human beings are designed to see three-dimensionally and in color and just as they are designed to stand upright rather than to move on all fours, so they are designed to learn and use language as part of their normal development as well-formed human beings. 相关资料 |
