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Though it is becoming increasingly easy to move from place to place, our inability to communicate with one another gives rise to
Though it is becoming increasingly easy to move from place to place, our inability to communicate with one another gives rise to
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2013-08-22
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Though it is becoming increasingly easy to move from place to place, our inability to communicate with one another gives rise to numerous misunderstandings and makes real contact between people of different nationalities impossible. Many attempts have been made to overcome this problem.but they have all failed. The fear of foreign influence and domination rules out the universal acceptance of any one of the existing major languages.
Linguists(语言学家)have succeeded in making their artificial languages extremely simple so that they would be easy to learn, but their efforts seemed doomed from the start. The reason for this is that there is no real incentive(动机)to learn an artificial language. There is nothing to guarantee that everybody is willing to make efforts; there is no assurance that the learner will have an adequate return for his toil. When people today undertake to learn a foreign language.they are not interested only in speaking it.
Mastery of a language makes available to the learner a great deal of worthwhile literature and many current publications. This is the biggest stumbling-block(障碍)of all for the artificially-constructed tongue. Having no literature of its own.all it can offer is a limited number of translations which are valueless in themselves. Moreover.constant use over a long period would bring into being many "national" dialects and the language would thus defeat its own purpose.
Another serious objection is the fact that a language is shaped by use rather than by design. It is a living thing which is constantly growing and changing. It takes hundreds of years before it can acquire richness and depth. In an artificial language, however, the meanings of works are rigidly defined. Inflexibility makes for an absence of subtlety, so that no really fine meaning can be conveyed. Though this quality might be admirable for scientific publications, it greatly hinders the formation of any significant literature. Latin words are ideal in this respect, for it was a "dead" language with a literature; an artificial one is "dead" from the start. This makes it likely that existing language barriers will remain with us for a very long time.
Why can’ t it be ensured that everybody is willing to command an artificial language?
选项
A、It is extremely demanding.
B、They may not be rewarded for their efforts.
C、It can only be spoken.
D、They desire greatest returns by smallest efforts.
答案
B
解析
根据题干关键词ensure,artificial language定位到第二段第三句: There is nothing to guarantee thateverybody is willing to make efforts;there is no assurance that the learner will have an adequate return for his toil.可知我们无法保证每个人都愿意付出努力,也不能保证学习者付出艰辛的劳动都能得到相应的回报,所以B)项为正确答案。
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