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Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答。
Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more __26__ , less afraid of what he doesn't know, better at finding and __27__ , more confident, resourceful (机敏的), persistent and __28__ than he will ever be again in his schooling – or, unless he is very unusual and very lucky, for the rest of his life. Already, by paying close attention to and __29__ the world and people around him, and without any school-type formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and __30__ than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years. He has solved the __31__ of language. He has discovered it – babies don't even know that language exists – and he has found out how it works and learned to use it __32__ . He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language, by __33__ and seeing whether it works, by gradually changing it and __34__ it until it does work. And while he has been doing this, he has been learning other things as well, including many of the " __35__ " that the schools think only they can teach him, and many that are more complicated than the ones they do try to teach him.
