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It is, everyone agrees, a huge task that the child performs when he learns to speak,and the fact that does so in 80 short a Period of time challenges explanation.

Language learning begins with listening. Individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking，and late starters are often long listeners. Most children will “obey” spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak， many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.

Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises9 and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out 幺s particularly indicative of delight,distress, sociability, and so on. But since these cannot be said to show the baby’s intention to communicate9 they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment,and that by six months they are able to add new sounds to their repertoire (能发 出的全部声音）? This self-imitation leads on to deliberate (有意识的）imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.

2. The best title for this passage would be ?

A. How Babies Learn to Speak

B. Early Forms of Language

C. A Huge Task for Children

D. Noise Making and Language Learning
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A 标题型题目。文章前半部分说明婴儿由听到学说话，后半部分说明婴儿如何从呀呀学语到说 话，因此只有A符合题意。