It may look like just another
playgroup, but a unique educational center in Manhattan is really giving babies
something to talk about. "It’s a school to teach languages to babies and young
children with games, songs--some of the classes also have arts and crafts," said
Francois Thibaut, the founder of the Language Workshop for Children, a place
where babies become bilingual. Children as young as few months are exposed to French and Spanish before many of them can even speak English. Educators use special songs and visual (视觉的) aids to ensure that when a child is ready to talk, the languages will not be so foreign. "Children have a unique capacity to learn many languages at the same time," said Thibaut. "Already at nine months, a child can tell the differences between the sounds he or she has heard since birth and the sounds A. capable of using two languages B. both clever and confident C. aware of their own limitations and strengths D. independent of their parents [单项选择]
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A number of foreign words still look like foreign words; these are often expressions which were originally used by people who wanted to sound particularly well educated. (61) It was the desire to be scholarly that brought about a wave of Latin terms which appeared in the 16th century when the Humanist movement brought new impetus to learning throughout Europe. Abbreviations such as e.g. (from the Latin meaning a voluntary example); PS (meaning "added after the letter has been written); a.m. and p.m. (meaning "before noon" and "after noon") came into the language at this time. 62) Nowadays they are so common that most people don’t even know what the letters actually stand for, and there’s certainly nothing learned about using them today! [单项选择]What does Daniel Black look like according to the man
A. He’s got dark hair and a beard, B. He’s tall and good-looking. C. He’s good-looking with long dark hair. D. He’s got glasses and a mustache or beard. 我来回答: 提交
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