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How did you develop from an infant(婴儿),with a few elementary thinking skills, to the adult you are now, with the ability to reason and analyze the world in many complex ways involving language, symbols and logic? Your first reaction to this question may be very likely to say, “Well, I learned how to think from my experiences and from the teaching I received from adults through my life.”

Although this explanation seems naturally correct to most people, many developmental psychologists believe that much more is involved in acquiring intellectual abilities than simple learning. The current view about intellectual development is that it is a process of maturation, much like physical development, that occurs in a predictable fashion from birth through adulthood.

Do you look at an infant and see a person who, with enough learning, is capable(有能力的) of adult physical behaviors? Of course not. Instead, you know that the child's behavior will become increasingly complex over time through a process of physical maturation. You know that until the child achieves a certain level of development, all the learning in the world cannot produce certain behaviors. For example, consider the behavior of walking. You probably think of walking as a learned behavior. But imagine trying to teach a 6-month-old to walk. You could place the infant on an Olympic-level schedule of 8 hours practice every day, but the child will not learn to walk, Wily? Because the child has not yet reached the physical maturity to perform the behaviors needed to walk.

Intellectual development occurs in much the same way. Children simply cannot display certain thinking and reasoning abilities until they reach an appropriate stage of intellectual development, no matter how much learning they may have experienced.

1.What is most people's view on intellectual development?

A.It depends on experience and education.

B.Its process is simple and predictable.

C.It is similar to physical development.

D.It just happens naturally in life.

2.What can we learn about physical development from the text?

A.It stops naturally, at an early age.

B.It happens through simple learning.

C.It is part of intellectual development.

D.It occurs in the process of growing up.

3.Why is walking mentioned in paragraph 3?

A.To show behaviors can't be learned till a certain age.

B.To prove walking can be learned at any stage in our life.

C.To indicate a baby can't learn to walk without parents, help.

D.To suggest more practice can produce more learned behaviors.

4.Where is this text most likely from?

A.A research paper.

B.A science magazine.

C.A teaching guidebook.

D.A children's newspaper.

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