阅读理解 Can you remember the day when you spoke your first words? It you can, you are unusual. Try to think what the first few months of your life were like. I'm sure you just spent most of your time eating, sleeping and crying. As you grew older, you were awake more of the time. It look your parents more to play with you and talk to you .You watched and listened. You began to know that people make some sounds to go with some things. Then you began to cry to make sounds you heard. And step by slop you were able to make sounds you heard .And step by step you were able to make the right sound for one thing. On that day you came to understand the secret of the language. The secret is that a certain sound means a certain thing. One sound might be as good as another. But it is not as good as a word unless everyone agrees on its meaning. Only when a group of people use the same set of sounds of things. they can understand each other, so these people have a language. After you found the secret of language, you learned words. Some of the words meant thing, such as books, chair and shops. Some of the words meant actions such as go and swim. And other words describe things such as good or dirty. Soon you learn to put words together to express one's idea, such as 'I want to go out and play with my friends.' This is language. By the way of language people can communicate. So we say languages mean communication. 1. can remember the day when we spoke our first words. A. Few of us B. No one C. Most people D. Someone 2. When you were a little baby. You A. made sounds to let people know that you wanted to eat B. spent most of your time eating, playing and sleeping C. could not hear any sounds around you D. spent most of your time playing with your parents 3. The secret of language is that . A. one sound might be as good as another B. a certain sound is for a certain thing C. people can understand each other D. there is a special sound for each other 4. You could learn words . A. before you knew what language was B. when you were a baby C. if you knew what language was D. after you knew what language was 5. The use of language is . A. to get everything one wants from another B. to say what one wants to know C. to make oneself understood by others D. to share ideas, opinions, news, etc. with one another