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Many things about language are a mystery, and many will always remain so. But some things we do know. First, we know that al
Many things about language are a mystery, and many will always remain so. But some things we do know. First, we know that al
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Many things about language are a mystery, and many will always remain so. But some things we do know.
First, we know that all human beings have a language of some sort. There is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language. And, in historical times, there has never been a race of men without a language.
Second, there is no such thing as a primitive language. There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, who are, as we say, uncivilized, but the languages they speak are not primitive. In all known languages we can see complexities that must have been tens of thousands of years in developing. This has not always been well understood; indeed, the direct contrary has often been stated. Popular ideas of the language of the American Indians will illustrate. Many people have supposed that the Indians communicated in a very primitive system of noises. Study has proved this to be nonsense. There are, or were, hundreds of American Indian languages, and all of them turn out to be very complicated and very old. They are certainly different from the languages that most of us are familiar with, but they are no more primitive than. English and Greek.
A third thing we know about language is that all languages are perfectly adequate. That is, each one is a perfect means of expressing the culture of the people who speak the language.
Finally, we know that language changes. It is natural and normal for language to changes the only languages which do not change are the dead ones. This is easy to understand if we look backward in time. Change goes on in all aspects of language. Grammatical features change as do speech sounds, and changes in vocabulary are sometimes very extensive and may occur very rapidly. Vocabulary is the least stable part of any language.
In the second paragraph the author thinks that .
选项
A、some backward race doesn’t have a language of its own
B、some race in history didn’t possess a language of its own
C、any human race, whether backward or not, has a language
D、some races on earth can communicate without language
答案
C
解析
在第二段中,首句we know that human beings have a language of some sort(我们知道所有的人类都有某种形式的语言)是其主题句,其后的There is no race of men anywhere on earth so back ward that it has no language.(世界上任何地方没有哪个民族落后到连语言都没有。)进一步说明了这个主题。
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