Q: Baby sign language is a growing movement. Pointing to a color1ful flower, Campbell lifts her baby's soft hand, and rapidly moves it from one side of his nose to the other as she sniffs ."Flower!" she says loudly. Gregory smiles and looks carefully. It could be a year before Gregory, 4 months old, can speak, but now his mother hopes to communicate with her baby through sign language.

Like others around the world, Campbell is part of a growing movement of parents teaching hearing babies simple signs to communicate before they can talk. The baby sign language has been more popular in recent years. The movie,"Meet the Fockers",where the main character teaches his young grandson to sign, makes it well developed.

Babies generally begin to talk between 12 and 15 months, but babies can use sign language to communicate before they learn how to speak.

"We know they are learning language faster than they are able to show you with their speech production because that system takes a long time to develop." says McRoberts, director of developmental research at the Haskins Laboratories.

"They are understanding words before they are able to say them. From around 16 to 18 months, they might say 50 words but understand 200.They understand short sentences well." says McRoberts.

Studies have shown deaf children learn to use sign language earlier than hearing children learn to speak meaningfully. As to whether hearing babies can communicate earlier with sign language, McRoberts says,"I think that's still unknown. It may not. I'm very interested in that very question."

Answer the following questions:
1. when do babies begin to talk?
2. do they understand words before saying them?
3. by when may they say 50?
4. and understand how many?
5. what is the article about?
6. what is the mothers name?
7. how old is her baby?
8. who is doing the research?
9. where does he work?
10. as?
11. what made the language popular?
12. how?
13. what is the baby's name here?
14. what does mother show him?
15. what does she hope to achieve?
16. are babies learning faster?
17. what do studies show about babies who can't hear?
18. does mother speak while teaching signs?
19. what does she say?
20. how long before Gregory can speak?
A: 1. between 12 and 15 months
2. yes
3. around 16 to 18 months
4. 200
5. Baby sign language
6. Campbell
7. 4 months
8. McRoberts
9. Haskins Laboratories
10. director of developmental research
11. Meet the Fockers
12. the main character teaches his young grandson to sign
13. Gregory
14. a colorful flower
15. to communicate with her baby through sign language
16. yes
17. deaf children learn to use sign language earlier than hearing children learn to speak meaningfully
18. yes
19. "Flower!"
20. It could be a year
Q: CHAPTER XXVIII

GERALDINE

On reaching the Landing Andrew learned that Frobisher had returned and he rowed across to visit him. It was evening when he disembarked at the little pier. Geraldine came down across the lawn, and Andrew's heart beat fast as he watched her. She was wonderfully graceful, he thought, her white summer dress and light hat became her, there was a tinge of color in her face, and she was obviously eager to hear his news. She gave him a quick glance before they met, and then smiled in cordial welcome, for the man's expression was suggestive. He had lost his strained and anxious look, there was now an assured tranquillity in his bearing; he had not come back disappointed, and, for his sake, she rejoiced at this. Then as she gave him her hand and noticed the eager light in his eyes she grew suddenly disturbed.

"You have been successful; I'm very glad," she said.

"Yes," responded Andrew, holding her hand; "things have gone well with us, but except for the mineral recorder you are the first person I've told the good news to. That strikes me as particularly appropriate."

"Why?"

"I don't suppose I'd ever have found the lode if you hadn't encouraged me. I felt daunted once or twice. Then I ventured to think that you'd be interested."

"I am interested," Geraldine assured him, gently withdrawing her hand. "You needn't doubt that. But won't you come up to the house?"

Andrew laughed with a trace of awkwardness as he realized that he had been standing at the top of the uncomfortably narrow steps by which one reached the pier.

Answer the following questions:
1. who has returned?
2. did Andrew go to see him?
3. who was the first person he told his news to?
4. who was the second?
5. what was she wearing?
6. anything else?
7. did she seem pleased to see him?
8. what had Andrew found?
9. who had encouraged him?
10. how did she feel about his sucess?
11. where was Andrew standing?
12. where did she invite him?
13. did they hold hands?
14. is she interested in him?
A: 1. Frobisher
2. yes
3. the mineral recorder
4. Geraldine
5. a white summer dress
6. a light hat
7. yes
8. the lode
9. Geraldine
10. very glad
11. at the top of the narrow steps
12. to the house
13. yes
14. yes
Q: CHAPTER XIII

BAXTER DAWES

SOON after Paul had been to the theatre with Clara, he was drinking in the Punch Bowl with some friends of his when Dawes came in. Clara's husband was growing stout; his eyelids were getting slack over his brown eyes; he was losing his healthy firmness of flesh. He was very evidently on the downward track. Having quarrelled with his sister, he had gone into cheap lodgings. His mistress had left him for a man who would marry her. He had been in prison one night for fighting when he was drunk, and there was a shady betting episode in which he was concerned.

Paul and he were confirmed enemies, and yet there was between them that peculiar feeling of intimacy, as if they were secretly near to each other, which sometimes exists between two people, although they never speak to one another. Paul often thought of Baxter Dawes, often wanted to get at him and be friends with him. He knew that Dawes often thought about him, and that the man was drawn to him by some bond or other. And yet the two never looked at each other save in hostility.

Since he was a superior employee at Jordan's, it was the thing for Paul to offer Dawes a drink.

"What'll you have?" he asked of him.

"Nowt wi' a bleeder like you!" replied the man.

Paul turned away with a slight disdainful movement of the shoulders, very irritating.

"The aristocracy," he continued, "is really a military institution. Take Germany, now. She's got thousands of aristocrats whose only means of existence is the army. They're deadly poor, and life's deadly slow. So they hope for a war. They look for war as a chance of getting on. Till there's a war they are idle good-for-nothings. When there's a war, they are leaders and commanders. There you are, then--they WANT war!"

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was drinking in the Punch Bowl?
2. Where had he been before?
3. Was he with anyone at the theatre?
4. Did anyone meet him at the Punch Bowl?
5. And who is Dawes?
6. Did he have a wife?
7. Did Paul offer him a drink?
8. Were Paul and Dawes friends?
9. Did they think of each other often?
10. Where was Dawes staying?
11. Did he go to jail?
12. What for?
13. Was he sober during the fight?
14. Where did Paul work?
15. What did he compare to a military institution?
16. What country did he use as an example for his argument?
17. Does he think they wish for war?
18. Why?
19. Are they wealthy?
20. What do they do when there is no war?
A:
1. Paul
2. the theatre
3. Clara
4. Dawes
5. Clara's husband
6. no
7. yes
8. no
9. yes
10. cheap lodgings
11. yes
12. fighting
13. no
14. Jordan's
15. The aristocracy
16. Germany
17. yes
18. as a chance of getting on
19. no
20. they are idle good-for-nothings