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23. The writer stresses that, in our time, it is ..........
A. a major concern in foreign intelligence to study the political and economic
developments in neighbour states.
B. usual for governments to rely more on military strength than on foreign intelligence.
C. possible for one nation to be completely wiped out by another or others
D. almost impossible to get reliable intelligence about other nations
24. According to the passage, foreign intelligence is regarded as .........
A. the unfair pursuit of the data relating to the military potential of another nation
B. essential for the economic well-being of a country.
C. clandestine interference in the affairs of another nation
D. the acquirement of a particular type of information.
A subject in which there has been lots of interest recently is the acquisition of language.
'Normal' children, that is, those who have not had a particularly rich environment-usually begin
talking after the first year of their life. By eighteen months they have a vocabulary of about half
a dozen words and at two years a vocabulary of more than a hundred words. The traditional
view has been that during the first year of life, babies are not mature enough to learn languages.
Talking, however, is only the outer manifestation of the development of the language long
before he first utters a meaningful word a baby can be observed responding to the language of
the others.
1. As explained in the passage, the way in which a language is acquired .......
A. is noticeably affected by the social background of the child.
B. follows a very similar pattern in all children.
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