根据以下材料，回答40-43题
Tom was aged four but he was talkinglike a two-year-old baby. He was saying such things as"kick ball" and"want car", and using lots of one-word sentences. He should have beensaying some really long sentences and telling stories with them. He wasn't.Something had gone terribly wrong.
Quite a few children have what is called a"language delay". For some reason they don't learn to speak asquickly as they should. Their friends shoot ahead and they're left behind. As aresult, they get very lonely. Nobody wants to talk to you if you can't talkback.
Can anything be done to help thesechildren Yes. They can go to see a speech therapist--a person who's speciallytrained to work out what's wrong and who knows how to teach language tochildren. This is what happened to Tom. The speech therapist played some gameswith him and heard how he talked.She made a recording of his speech,and chatted to his morn and dad about his background. They'd taken Tomto see a doctor, but the doctor hadn't found anything wrong with him.
He seemed perfectly normal in everyway--except he just wasn't talking.
After Tom and his parents had gone home,the therapist listened carefully to the recording she'd made. Then she lookedat a chart which showed how language developed in children aged two, three,andfour. She could see Tom was a long way behind.
The next step, she decided, was to teachTom how to say some new sentences like "kick a red ball, " and"the clown is kicking a ball. " Tom didn't get the new sentencesright straight away. But the therapist was very patient, and after a few morevisits he started to make some progress.
What can be inferred from the passageabout "language delay"
- A.It can be prevented by doctors
- B.It is seldom found among children
- C.It can be improved with certain help
- D.It may result from hearing problems
正确答案及解析
正确答案
解析
根据文章第二段第一句“Quite a few children have what is called a‘language delay”’可知，相当多的孩子都出现了语言迟缓的现象，排除B项。D项在原文未有相关信息体现，排除。根据第三、第四、第五段可知，医生无法治疗儿童语言迟缓，但是言语治疗师可以为这些儿童提供帮助，缓解这种症状，由此可知A项错误。因此选C。
