Read the text. Then choose the correct answer to questions 30-32

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.
C. has lately attracted a great deal of attention.
D. does not depend at all upon the age of a child.
2. In accordance with the passage, one can define "talking" as ........
A. the first means for a child to communicate with others.
B. the positive proof that a language is being learned.
C. the manifestation of a child's physical development.
D. the first step towards acquiring a language.
3. The passage makes tells that we now have .........
A. a revised review of language acquisition, among normal children.
B. a distorted view of how a child begins to communicate.
C. returned to the traditional theory concerning language acquisition among children.
D. a rather contradictory theory concerning the acquisition of language two-year-olds.
Economic dynamics have resolutely shifted from the national economy to the world economy. From now on any country -and also any business, especially a large one- that wants to prosper will have to accept that it is the world economy that leads and that domestic economic policies will succeed only if they strengthen, or at least, do not impair the country's international competitive position. This may be the most important. It surely is the most striking feature of the changed world economy. 148

4. The writer tells that one significant development in economy has been ........

A. the stress on the importance of domestic economic policies
B. the growing importance of national economic policies
C. a keener competition between domestic and international companies