SECTION BDirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phras

SECTION B
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
There are between 3000 and 6000 public languages in the world, and we must add approximately 6      36      private languages since each one of us necessarily has one.      37      these facts, the possibilities for breakdowns in munication seem infinite in number. However, we do      38      successfully from time to time. And we do learn to speak languages.                               But learning to speak languages seems to be a very      39      process. For a long time, people thought that we learned a language only by imitation and association.      40    , a baby touches a hot pot and starts to cry. The mother says, “Hot, hot!” And the baby, when it stops crying,      41      the mother and says, “Hot, hot!” However, Noam Chomsky, a famous expert in language,      42      that although children do learn some      43     by imitation and association, they also bine words to make meaningful sentences in ways that are unique, unlearned and creative.
Because young children can make sentences they have never heard before, Chomsky suggested that human infants are born with the      44      to learn language. Chomsky meant that underneath all the differences between public and private languages, there is a universal language mechanism that makes it      45      for us, as infants, to learn any language in the world. This      46      explains the potential that human infants have for learning language. But it does not really explain how children      47      use language in particular ways.
36. A. million             B. trillion            C. thousand                D. billion
37. A. Supposing          B. Given             C. Considering           D. Taken
38. A. speak              B. tell               C. learn                     D. municate
39. A. various            B. mysterious           C. famous                    D. obvious
40. A. For example       B. Such as           C. Like this                D. That is
41. A. understands      B. imitates          C. loves                     D. attaches
42. A. pointed at       B. pointed to         C. pointed out              D. point off
43. A. words            B. sentences               C. paragraphs             D.passages
44. A. right               B. ability            C. power                   D. force
45. A. certain                  B. impossible           C. possible                 D. successful
46. A. imagination               B. fiction            C. invention                      D. theory
47. A. e to           B. bee to     C. go to                    D. used to 36. D   37. C  38. D  39. B  40. A  41. B  42. C 43. A  44. B  45. C  46. D  47. A