A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.
To know language is to be able to speak it; even a child who does not yet attend school can speak his or her language. In order to speak a language it is important to listen to it and to read a few pages in it everyday. A child picks up language and learns to talk just as (s)he learns to walk. Walking and talking comes naturally to a child as it grows. In our country, a child may grow up speaking more than one language, if these languages are spoken in the home and in the neighbourhood. we call this multilingualism. A child speaks a language or languages much before (s)he starts going to school. To know a language then is first of all to be able to speak it as easily and naturally as a tree year old child does. Later on the child will learn to read and write in that language. In order to read and write in a language, one has to speak it. But it is possible to speak a language but not able to read or write in it. A baby does not speak until it is nine months old but it understands a few words at six months of age. It has been listening ever since it was born, and even a little before that. So the first strategy in speaking a language is to listen.
To know a language one must be able to?
Speak it as easily and naturally as a three year old child.
The passage explicitly states that "To know a language is to be able to speak it". It further emphasizes that knowing a language involves speaking it as naturally as a three-year-old child. The passage uses the example of a child learning to speak their native language to highlight the natural and inherent ability to speak a language before reading or writing. The ability to speak is presented as the foundational aspect of language acquisition. While reading and writing are important skills developed later, the primary criterion for knowing a language, according to the passage, is the ability to speak it fluently and naturally, much like a young child.
The other options are incorrect because the passage doesn't prioritize reading, writing, or singing as the primary defining factor of knowing a language. The core idea is that speaking is fundamental; other skills, like reading and writing, build upon this foundational ability.
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