填空题

Directions: In this section you will hear a recorded short passage. The passage is printed in the test paper, but with some words or phrases missing. The passage will be read three times. During the second reading, you are required to put the missing words or phrases on the Answer Sheet in order of the numbered blanks according to what you hear. The third reading is for you to check your writing. Now the passage will begin.
All over the world children learn to understand and speak their own language before they go to school. They (11) this wonderful skill by constant practice, by listening and talking all the time to themselves, to their family and friends. At first the child only (12) words and expressions that he has heard and learned. But he finds that he has to put new (13) together to get what he wants. He (14) new sentences out on people. They accept some of his sentences but reject others because they are funny or because they don’t (15) The child keeps on trying until he works out a system for producing sentences that can be accept and understood. He gathers in his mind a simple mode of the language, his own grammar of his own language.