5.Before children start speaking________.

A.they need equal amount of listening

B.they need different amounts of listening

C.they are all eager to cooperate with the adults by obeying spoken instructions

D.they can’t understand and obey the adult’s oral instructions

6.Children who start speaking late ________.

A.may have problems with their listening

B.probably do not hear enough language spoken around them

C.usually pay close attention to what they hear

D.often take a long time in learning to listen properly

7.A baby’s first noises are ________.

A.an expression of his moods and feelings

B.an early form of language

C.a sign that he means to tell you something

D.an imitation of the speech of adults

8.The problem of deciding at what point a baby’s imitations can be considered as speech________.

A.is important because words have different meanings for different people

B.is not especially important because the changeover takes place gradually

C.is one that should be properly understood because the meaning of words changes with age

D.is one that should be completely ignored(忽略)because children’s use of words is often meaningless

9.The speaker implies________.

A.parents can never hope to teach their children new sounds

B.children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak

C.children who are good at imitating learn new words more quickly

D.even after they have learnt to speak, children still enjoy imitating

C

The greatest recent changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there was an unusual shortening of the time of a woman’s life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which custom, chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children ,her work is lightened by household appliances(家用电器)and convenience foods.

This important change in women’s way of life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’ s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age ,and though women tend to marry younger ,more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more after wads, return to full or part-time work.Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with both husband and wife accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfaction of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money and running the home, according to the abilities and interest of each of them.

10.We are told that in an average family about 1990________.

A.many children died before they were five

B.the youngest child would be fifteen

C.seven of eight children lived to be more than five

D.four or five children died when they were five

11.When she was over fifty, the late 19th century mother________.

A.would expect to work until she died

B.was usually expected to take up paid employment

C.would be healthy enough to take up paid employment

D.was unlikely to find a job even if she is now likely

12.Many girls, the passage says, are now likely to ________.