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Culture is the sum total of all the tradition, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sens
Culture is the sum total of all the tradition, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sens
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2012-11-30
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Culture is the sum total of all the tradition, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sense, every group has a culture, however savage, undeveloped, or uncivilized, it may seem to us.
To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic hierarchy (等级,阶层) among languages.
People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped forms of speech, misting largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that language in general began as a series of grants and groans, it is a fact established by the study if "backward" languages that no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of ideas. They fall behind our Western languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, which usually are fifty adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflects the objects and activities known to their speakers. Even in this department, however, two things are to be noted: 1. All languages seem to possess the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence or by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own system. 2. The objects and activities requiting names and distinctions in "backward" languages, while different from ours, are often surprisingly numerous and complicated. A Western language distinguished merely between two degrees of remoteness ("this" and "that"); some languages of the American Indians distinguish between what is close to the speaker, or to the person addressed or removed from both, or out of sight, or in the past, or in the future.
This study of language, in turn, casts a new light upon the claim of the anthropologists that all culture are to be viewed independently, and without ideas of rank or hierarchy.
Which of the following is implied in the passage?
选项
A、The study of language is the same as the study of anthropology
B、The study of language has reinforced anthropologists in their view that there is no hierarchy among cultures.
C、The study of languages has discredited anthropological studies
D、The study of languages casts a new light upon the claim of anthropologists
答案
B
解析
推理题。提问中用了…is implied in the passage?凡文章里面明说的事,不能说是暗示或推论,D项可以在文章里面找到,不能是答案。根据文章的最后一段“The study of language,in turn, casts a new light upon the claim of the anthropologists that all cultures are to be viewed independently, and without ideas of rank or hierarchy.” (对语言的研究反过来给那些持有文化者是独自存在的,是给没有等级观点的人类学家带来新的曙光。)选项 B说的也正是这个意思,故为正确答案。
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