Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 1 to 8 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 9 to 11 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more 1.___________________less afraid of what he doesn't know, better at finding and 2. _________ things out, more confident, resourceful (机敏的), persistent and 3._____________ than he will ever be again in his schooling – or, unless he is very 4.__________and very lucky, for the rest of his life. Already, by paying close attention to and 5.______________with the world and people around him, and without any school-type 6.________ instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and 7.__________ than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years. He has solved the 8._________ of language. He has discovered it – babies don't even know that language exists – and 9. __________________________________________________________________He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language, 10._________________________________________________________________________________________until it does work. And while he has been doing this, he has been learning other things as well,11. _____________________________________________________________________________ and many that are more complicated than the ones they do try to teach him.