国家开放大学学位英语考试真题及参考答案
Part III Reading Comprehension(20x2=40 points)Passage 1 It may look like just another playgroup, but a unique educational center in Manhattan is really giving babies something to talk about."It'sa 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 Langrage 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 he or she has never heard yet."Thibaut says the best time to expose children to language is from birth to 3 years old.For the last 30 years, the school has been using what it calls the Thibarut Technique,a system that combines language lessons with child's play.“I always wanted to learn Spanish, but by the time