Babies begin to develop language skills long before they begin speaking. Adults have a (1) time learning new languages as they grow older, but (2) have the ability to learn any language easily. Such studies show that, up to about (3) months of age, babies can recognize all the sounds that make up all the languages in the world. Most kids speak in full sentences by age (4) Children begin (5) only to the sounds of the language they hear the most. About (6) sounds make up the languages spoken around the globe, but not every language uses every sound. To a native Japanese speaker, the letters (7) and (8) sound identical. So a Japanese speaker cannot tell "row" from "low," or "rake" from "lake. " By around age 7, a baby’s brain has disposed of all the (9) connections that the infant was born with. So, if you don’t start studying a foreign language until (10) school, you must (11) against years of brain development, and progress can be (12) . A 12-year-old’s brain has to work much (13) to forge language connections than an infant’s brain does. Learning the baby’s brain might also help scientists design (14) that learn languages as easily as babies do. Useful as computers are, they cannot (15) and (16) like people do. Researchers have found that it is far (17) for a language learner to talk with people who speak the language than to rely on (18) CDs and DVDs with recorded conversations. When infants watched someone speaking a foreign language on (19) , they had a completely (20) experience than they did if they watched the same speaker in real life.
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Questions 6~10 Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they’ re always coming in for criticism. Their critics seem to resent them because they have a flair for self-promotion and because they have so much money to throw around. "It’s iniquitous," they say, "that this entirely unproductive industry (if we can call it that) should absorb millions of pounds each year. It only goes to show how much profit the big companies are making. Why don’t they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods After all, it’s the consumer who pays. " The poor old consumer! He’d have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn’t create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods derives largely from the advertisements we read. Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about. Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more than likely you would obtain details regarding performance, price, etc. , from an advertisement. Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted. It is hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading railway byelaws while waiting for a train Would you like to read only closely printed columns of news in your daily paper A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a drab wall or a newspaper full of the daily ration of calamities. We must not forget, either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets. Newspapers, commercial radio and television companies could not subsist without this source of revenue. The fact that we pay so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many broadcast programmes is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers. Just think what a newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price! Another thing we mustn’t forget is the "small ads. " which are in virtually every newspaper and magazine. What a tremendously useful service they perform for the community! Just about anything can be accomplished through these columns. For instance, you can find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to be called the "hatch, match and dispatch" column but by far the most fascinating section is the personal or "agony" column. No other item in a newspaper provides such entertaining reading or offers such a deep insight into human nature. It’s the best advertisement for advertising there is! The passage is______.
A. narration
B. description
C. criticism
D. argumentation
基金销售机构的电话服务中心在提供服务时不能记录谈话资料。( )
A. 对
B. 错
广州某香料厂在东北炼油厂购买了石油醚35吨,于当天在保险公司投保了货物运输险发往广州。不几日,货物安全抵达广州吉山火车站,站方用电话通知香料厂提货。由于该厂无化工危险品的运输能力,故委托广州A仓库协助运输。主要运输程序是:A仓库组织车辆人员由吉山火车站的铁路大罐车内卸下石油醚,装到汽车罐车上运送到A仓库,再由A仓库分装在 53加仑的铁桶内最后运到香料厂。 A仓库接受香料厂的委托并收取装卸运输费后便开始装卸承运。在往53加仑的铁桶内分装时,由该仓库职工张某带入现场操作,每装完一桶都有相当数量的石油醚流落在桶盖、桶身和地面上。当快装卸完毕时,A仓库组织的个体运输车队带去的装卸工在搬运铁桥板时与凹凸不平的水泥地面摩擦产生了火花,从而引燃了地面上散发的石油醚气体,发生了一起重大火灾爆炸事故,烧掉了全部石油醚。 保险公司接到报案后,立即派人勘查现场,同时也对火灾爆炸的原因及损失情况进行了调查,确认事故属保险责任范围,及时补偿了香料厂的经济损失。同时,按照《中华人民共和国财产保险合同条例》第19条的规定,香料厂将向责任者的追偿权以书面形式转让于保险公司。 保险公司得到追偿权后便向A仓库追偿经济损失,经过大量工作,成功地追回了经济损失。 关于代位求偿权的表述,下列不正确的是________。
A. 发生保险事故是因为第三人的过错
B. 保险人可以在给付保险金之前便取得代位求偿权
C. 保险人向被保险人赔偿保险金后,被保险人未经保险人同意放弃对第三者请求赔偿的权利的,该行为无效
D. 保险人可以放弃代位求偿权
基金公司的资产管理规模直接关系公司的管理费收入。( )
A. 对
B. 错