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Section 41<br />

Practice Test One<br />

73<br />

22. The author uses <strong>the</strong> word "necessarily" (line 47) in<br />

order to suggest that<br />

(A) it is inevitable that two streams of speech are<br />

more confusing than one<br />

(B) even adults can have trouble distinguishing<br />

between streams of equal volume<br />

( C) infants always combine separate streams into<br />

a single sound<br />

(D) an individual stream understandably changes<br />

character when mixed with ano<strong>the</strong>r<br />

(E) <strong>the</strong> diversity of audible stimuli makes an<br />

infant's confusion quite understandable<br />

23. The example in <strong>the</strong> last paragraph suggests that in<br />

<strong>the</strong> situation described in lines 25-32 ("Be<strong>for</strong>e<br />

he can learn . .. adjacent room."), an infant would<br />

most likely<br />

(A) understand his mo<strong>the</strong>r's communication<br />

stream<br />

(B) absorb many of <strong>the</strong> nuances of his mo<strong>the</strong>r's<br />

speech<br />

(C) be able to distinguish his mo<strong>the</strong>r's voice from<br />

that of <strong>the</strong> newscaster<br />

(D) not learn anything about his language from<br />

<strong>the</strong> television voice<br />

(E) separate out his mo<strong>the</strong>r's speech from most<br />

of <strong>the</strong> background noises<br />

24. The example in <strong>the</strong> last paragraph could be used<br />

to illustrate how<br />

(A) an infant who spends little time with his<br />

parents would probably have trouble with<br />

language acquisition<br />

(B) an infant in constant vocal interaction with<br />

his parents could experience accelerated<br />

language acquisition<br />

(C) <strong>the</strong> complexity of an infant's native language<br />

is not a factor in determining whe<strong>the</strong>r that<br />

language will be easily acquired<br />

(D) infants with particularly attentive parents are<br />

more likely to acquire language skills more<br />

quickly<br />

(E) eliminating unfamiliar voices from an<br />

infant's environment can facilitate language<br />

acquisition<br />

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