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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 1 to 5

 In the exploration of the linguistic life cycle, it is apparent that it is much more difficult to learn a second language in adulthood than a first language in childhood. Most adults never completely master a foreign language, especially in phonology – hence the ubiquitous foreign accent. Their development often “fossilizes” into permanent error patterns that no teaching or correction can undo. Of course, there are great individual differences, which depend on effort, attitudes, amount of exposure, quality of teaching, and plain talent, but there seems to be a cap for the best adults in the best circumstances.

Many explanations have been advanced for children’s superiority: they exploit Motherese (the simplified, repetitive conversation between parents and children), make errors unselfconsciously, are more motivated to communicate, like to conform, are not set in their ways, and have no first language to interfere. But some of these accounts are unlikely, based on what is known about how language acquisition works. Recent evidence is calling these social and motivation explanations into doubt. Holding every other factor constant, a key factor stands out: sheer age.

Systematic evidence comes from the psychologist Elissa Newport and her colleagues. They tested Korean and Chinese-born students at the University of Illinois who had spent at least ten years in the United States. The immigrants were given a list of 276 simple English sentences, half of them containing some grammatical errors. The immigrants who came to the United States between the ages of 3 and 7 performed identically to American-born students. Those who arrived between the ages of 8 and 15 did worse the later they arrived, and those who arrived between 17 and 39 did the worst of all, and showed huge variability unrelated to the age of arrival.

The passage mainly discusses _______.

A. adults differences in learning a foreign language 

B. children’s ability to learn a language 

C. the age factor in learning language fast 

D. research into language acquisition

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Chọn C

Câu hỏi cùng đoạn

Câu 2:

From the passage, it can be inferred that “phonology” is the study of _______.  

A. the grammar of a language 

B. the rules of a language 

C. the vocabulary of a language 

D. the sound system of a language

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Chọn D

Câu 3:

The word “cap” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to _______.    

A. prize 

B. limit 

C. covering 

D. level

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Chọn D

Câu 4:

According to the passage, young children learn language quickly for all of the following reasons EXCEPT _______.

A. they make many mistakes 

B. they want to talk 

C. their approach is flexible 

D. they frequently repeat words

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Chọn A

Câu 5:

In the experiment in the passage, the psychologists discovered that _______.

A. most students had lived in the U.S for more than 10 years 

B. older students were unable to learn English 

C. young students learned English best 

D. students who arrived late were worst of all

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Chọn C

CÂU HỎI HOT CÙNG CHỦ ĐỀ

Lời giải

Đáp án: B

Giải thích:

Kiến thức: Từ vựng

A. friendship (n): tình bạn

B. relationship (n): mối quan hệ

C. scholarship (n): học bổng

D. membership (n): tư cách thành viên

Dựa vào nghĩa, chọn B.

Dịch: Nếu phụ nữ chọn theo đuổi sự nghiệp sau khi có con, họ thường đánh mất mối quan hệ thân thiết với con cái.

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Câu 4

A. Because I judge by the car he drives, I’d say he’s got a pretty good job. 

B. When I judge by the car he drives, I’d say he’s got a pretty good job. 

C. Unless I judge by the car he drives, I’d say he’s got a pretty good job. 

D. Judging by the car he drives, I’d say he’s got a pretty good job.

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