Question

read the following passage carefully before you choose your answers.
every child has to learn the language he is born to. it is certain that he will make mistakes in the process, especially as he is not taught it by any wise system, but blunders into what usage he can grasp from day to day.
now, if an adult foreigner were learning our language, and we greeted his efforts with yells of laughter, we should think ourselves grossly rude. and what should we think of ourselves if we further misled him by setting absurd words and phrases before him, encouraging him to further blunders, that we might laugh the more; and then, if we had visitors, inciting him to make these blunders over again to entertain the company? yet this is common household sport, so long as there is a little child to act as zany for the amusement of his elders. the errors of a child are not legitimate grounds of humour, even to those coarse enough to laugh at them, any more than a toddling baby’s falls have the same elements of the incongruous as the overthrow of a stout old gentleman who sits down astonished in the snow.
a baby has to fall. it is natural, and not funny. so does the young child have to make mistakes as he learns any
in the course of the second paragraph, the focus of the argument shifts from
a foreigners’ language acquisition to foreigners’ adoption of local customs
b adults’ view of children to children’s view of themselves
c older children’s learning to infants’ learning
d adults’ language acquisition to children’s learning in general

Explanation:

The first part of the second paragraph discusses how adults react to a foreigner learning their language (greeting his efforts with laughter, finding his mistakes rude). It then shifts to discussing how adults react to children's language learning mistakes (encouraging them to make blunders for amusement). This is a shift from adults' view of foreigners' language learning to their view of children's own learning/mistakes.

Answer:

B. adults' view of children to children's view of themselves