[填空题]A a second language
B the same language
C the same speech community
D any other language
E national boundaries
F a part of one’s heritage
Overall there are more speakers of Chinese than of______

[填空题]A a second language
B the same language
C the same speech community
D any other language
E national boundaries
F a part of one’s heritage
The boundaries of a speech community may be different from______

[单项选择]A) The same to you. B) You do, too. C) The same as you. D) You have it, too.

[单项选择]The language produced by second language learners is technically called（　）
A. interlanguage.
B. foreign language.
C. first language.
D. second language.

[单项选择]A. Thank you all the same.
B. Sounds good.
C. I don’t think so.

[单项选择]The formal instruction in second language acquisition （　）.
A. has no effect at all
B. has a powerful delayed effect
C. has very little effect
D. has unsatisfactory effect

[简答题]A. lower B. higher C. the same D. unpredictable

[单项选择]The type of language constructed by second or foreign language learners who are still in the process of learning a language is often referred to as （）.
A. parole
B. langue
C. interlanguage
D. pidgin

[单项选择]

Whether to teach young children a second language is disputed among teachers, researchers and pushy parents. On the one hand, acquiring a new tongue is said to be far easier when young. On the other, teachers complain that children whose parents speak a language at home that is different from the one used in the classroom sometimes struggle in their lessons and are slower to reach linguistic milestones. Would a 15-month-old child, they wonder, not be better off going to music classes
A study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may help resolve this question by getting to the point of what is going on in a bilingual child’s brain, how a second language affects the way he thinks, and thus in what circumstances being bilingual may be helpful. Agnes Kovacs and Jacques Mehler at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste say that some aspects of the cognitive development of infants raised in a bilingual household must be un
A. It shortens his focus time on anything learnt
B. It always switches his attention to new information
C. It makes him able to predict the appearance of a person
D. It makes him far easier to overcome his learnt response