2011年12月英语六级考试预测试题（3）

Part V Error Correction (15 minutes)

Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word. put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.

Example:

Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods. 1. time/times/period

Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature 2. ____/____

as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. ____the____

Language learning begins with listening. Individual

children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do after 62. ________

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 like a description of the eager and delighted 63. ________

cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can

speak, many children will ask questions in gesture and by 64. ________

making questioning noises. Any attempt to trace the

development from the noises babies make to their first

spoken words lead to considerable difficulties. It is agreed 65. ________

they enjoy making noises, and that during the first 66. ________

few months one or two noise sort themselves out as 67. ________

particular indicative of delight, distress, sociability, and so 68. ________

on. But since these can be said to show the baby’s intention to 69. ________

communicate, 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. This

self-imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds

making or words spoken to them by other people. The 70. ________

problem then arises as to the point which one can say that 71. ________

these imitations can be considered as speech.