Question

 Can you remember the day when you spoke your first words? If you can,you are unusual. Try to think of what the first few months of your life were like. I'm sure you just spent most of your time eating, sleeping and crying. As you grew older，you were awake(醒着的)more of the time. It took your parents more time to play with you and talk to you. You watched and listened. You began to know that people make some sounds to go with some things.

  Then you began to cry to make sounds you heard. And step by step you were able to make the right sound for one thing.

  On that day you came to understand the secret of the language. The secret is that a certain sound means a certain thing. One sound might be as good as another. But it is not as good as a word unless (除非)everyone agrees on its meaning. Only when a group of people use the same set of sounds of a thing，can they understand each other, so these people have a language.

  After you found the secret of language，you learned words. Some of the words mean things， such as books, chairs and shops. Some of the words mean actions, such as go and swim. And other words describe things like" I want to go out and play with my friend". This is language. By the way of language people can communicate. So we say languages mean communication.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

(   ) 1.________ can remember the day when we spoke our first words.

A.   Few of us

B.   No one

C.   Most people

D.   Someone

(   ) 2. When you were a little baby, you

A.   made sounds to let people know that you wanted to eat

B.   spent most of your time eating, crying and sleeping

C.   could not hear any sounds around you

D.   spent most of your time playing with your parents

(   ) 3. The secret of language is that      

A.   one sounds might be as good as another

B.   a certain sound is for a certain thing

C.   people can understand each other

D.   there is a special sound for each other

(   ) 4. After you found the secret of language,

A.   you watched and listened

B.   you began to make sound you heard

C.   you learned words

D.   you communicated with others
(   ) 5. The use of language is      

A.   to get everything one wants from another

B.   to say what one wants to know

C.   to make oneself understood by others

D.   to share ideas, opinions, news,etc. with one another

Answer 1

1. A

2. B

3. B 由第三段第一、二两句可知，语言的秘密是"一些特定的声音代表特定的事物"。

4. C

5. D  由短文最后两句可知，语言的功用在于交流，即与别人分享观点，喜怒哀乐。