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.