Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more 【B1】______ , less afraid of what he doesn’t know, better at finding and 【B2】______ things out, more confident, resourceful(机敏的), persistent, and 【B3】 ______ than he will ever be again in his schooling — or, unless he is very 【B4】______ and very lucky, for the rest of his life. Already, by paying close attention to and 【B5】______ with the world and people around him, and without any school-type 【B6】___instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and 【B7】___ than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years. He has solved the 【B8】______ of language. He has discovered it. Babies don’t even know that language exists—and 【B9】_________. He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language, 【B10】_________ until it does work. And while he has been doing this, he has been learning other things as well, 【B11】____________ , and many that are more complicated than the ones they do try to teach him.

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