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  3. We know that it is impossible to set up a limited number of types that would do full justice to the peculiarities of thousands o

We know that it is impossible to set up a limited number of types that would do full justice to the peculiarities of thousands o

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问题     We know that it is impossible to set up a limited number of types
that would do full justice to the peculiarities of thousands of languages【S1】________
and dialects spoken on the surface of the earth. Like all human
institutions, speech is too variable and too elusive to be quite safely
ticketed. Even if we operate with a minutely subdivided scale of types,
we may be quite certain that many of our languages will need trim before【S2】________
they fit. To get them into the scheme at all it will be necessary to
underestimate the significance of this or that feature or to ignore, for the【S3】________
time being, certain contradictions in their mechanism. It would be too
easy to relieve ourselves from the burden of constructional thinking and【S4】________
to take the standpoint that each language has its unique history, therefore
its unique structure. Such a standpoint expresses only a half truth. Just
as similar social, economic, and religious institutions have grown up in
different parts of the world from distinct historical antecedents, so also
languages, travel along different roads, have tended to converge toward【S5】________
similar forms. Moreover, the historical study of language has proven to
us beyond all doubt that a language changes not only gradually but
consistently, that it moves unconsciously from one type towards others, 【S6】________
and that analogous trends are observable in remote quarters of the globe.
From this it follows that broadly similar study must not have been【S7】________
reached by unrelated languages, independently and frequently. In
assuming the existence of comparable types, however, we are not【S8】________
denying the individuality of all historical processes；we are merely
affirming that back of the face of history is powerful drifts that move【S9】________
language, like other social products, to balance patterns. 【S10】________
【S2】
选项
答案trim—trimming
解析 动词形式错误。当need／require／want的主语为物时，要使用doing作宾补，表示“……需要被……”，故将trim改为trimming。该句意为“尽管我们可以用来细分语言种类的程度很小，我们至少可以肯定很多语言需要不断修正才能适用。”
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