COMPLETE IELTS 5-6.5 UNIT 3 LISTENING - READING

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1-2. A and D
3-4. B and E
5. D
6. F

7. E
8. C
9. mobile phone(s)
10. digital recorder(s)

WHY DONT BABIES TALKS LIKE ADULTS

1. People are extremely amused when they see a baby talk like an adult.

YES: "Few things are as funny as a baby who talks like an adult," indicating that people find it very amusing.

2. Behaviourists of the early 20th century argued that children learn to speak by copying adults.

YES: "Behaviourism, the scientific approach that dominated American cognitive science for the first half of the 20th century, made exactly this argument."

3. Children have more conversations with adults than with other children.

NOT GIVEN: The passage does not discuss whether children converse more with adults or other children.

4. Scientists have found it easy to work out why babies use one-word sentences.

NO: "It’s easy for scientists to show that a copycat theory of language acquisition can’t explain children’s first words. What is hard for them to do is to explain these first words," implying it is difficult for scientists to determine why babies use one-word sentences.

6. B

7. A

8. F

9. E

10. A (All of these factors make them an ideal population in which to test these competing hypotheses about how language is learned.)

11. C (These children began learning English at an older age than U.S. natives and had more mature brains with which to tackle the task.)

12. C (The adoptees then went through the same stages as typical American-born children, albeit at a faster clip.)

13. B (Learning how to chat like an adult is a gradual process.)

14. D (Researchers have long suspected there is a ‘critical period’ for language development, after which it cannot proceed with full success to fluency.)