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Section C
Directions: In this section, you will heara passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you shouldlisten carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the secondtime, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have justheard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should checkwhat you have written.
Now listen to the passage.
Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more curious, less afraid of what he doesn't know, better at finding andfiguring things out ，more confident, resourceful (机敏的）， persistent and independent 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 interacting with the world and people around him, and without any school-type formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated andabstract than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years. He has solved the mystery of language. He has discovered it-babies don't even know that language exists-and he has found out how it works and learnt to use it appropriate . He hasdone it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language, bytrying it out and seeing whether it works by gradually changing it andrefining it until it does work. And while he has been doing this, he has been learning other things as well, including many of theconcepts that the schools think only they can teach him, and many that are more complicated than the ones they do try to teach him.
