届高三英语二轮专题试：阅读理解15.docVIP

2014届高三英语二轮专题测试：阅读理解 1. Is language, like food, a basic human need? Judging from the extreme experiment of Frederick in the 13th century, it may be．Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue he told the nurses to keep silent. All the babies died before the first year．But clearly there was more than language deprivation (剥夺，丧失) ．What was missing was good mothering．Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the ability to survive is seriously affected. Today no such extreme deprivation exists as that ordered by Frederick．Nevertheless