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  3. Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, belief and ways bf life of a given group of human beings. In this sense

Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, belief and ways bf life of a given group of human beings. In this sense

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问题      Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, belief and ways bf 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 among languages.
     People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped form of speech, consisting largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of "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 the Western languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, which usually are fully adequate for all
     This study of language, in turn, casts a new light upon the claim of the anthropologists that all cultures are to viewed independently, and without ideas of rank or hierarchy.
The author uses "backward" here to indicate that ______.
选项 A、backward languages are connected with backward groups
B、backward languages are connected with backward cultures
C、backward languages are moving forward
D、there is no such thing as backward languages
答案C
解析 作者在backward一词加上了引号，表明自己虽然使用这个词，但与其通常的含义是不同的，从作者的结论来看，他不承认语言之间有等级划分，当然也就没有先进和落后之分，因此D应当是正确答案。
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