首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sen
Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sen
admin
2010-09-06
71
问题
Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, 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 among languages.
People once thought of the languages of backward group as savage, undeveloped forms of speech, consisting largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that languages 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 our Western languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, which usually are fully adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflect 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, whether by putting together words already in existence or by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own systems. 2. The objects and activities requiring names and distinctions for "backward" languages, while different from ours, are often surprisingly numerous and complicated. A Western language distinguishes 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 cultures are to be viewed independently, and without ideas of rank or hierarchy.
选项
A、definition of culture
B、feeling about human beings
C、bias in regard to civilized humans
D、philosophy
答案
A
解析
在第一段,作者首先给出了一个他(她)给文化下的定义,即文化是某一特定团体的人的所有传统、习俗、信仰和生活方式的总结。根据这个定义可以推知,不管哪个群体,不管其发展程度如何,都有其自身的文化。因此这个结论是建立在段首那个关于文化的定义基础上的。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/U2Z4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Whathappenswhenyoucombineproductdesignskills,high-poweredmarketresearchtechniques,andabundantcustomerdata?Tooof
Tofunctionwellintheworld,peopleneedagoodsenseofwheretheirbodyisinspaceandhowit’spostured.This"positionse
TheTimberrattlesnakeisnowontheendangeredspecieslist,andisextinctintwoeasternstatesinwhichitonce
Theauthorbelievesthat______.Thepassageismainlyabout______.
AlthoughProfessorGreen’slecturesusuallyran(over)the(fifty-minute)period,(butnone)ofhisstudents(ever)objectedas
Writeanessayof160-200wordsbasedonthefollowingdrawing.Inyouressay,youshould1)describethedrawingbriefly,
ItisnoteasytotalkabouttheroleofthemassmediainthisoverwhelminglysignificantphaseinEuropeanhistory.Historyan
Almostallourmajorproblemsinvolvehumanbehavior,andtheycannotbesolvedbyphysicalandbiologicaltechnologyalone.Wha
Whichofthefollowingconsequencemightbecausedbythe2005emergencyspendingbill?Fromthetextwecanconcludethatmany
Title:MarriageonthecampusTimelimit:30minutesWordlist:120~150wordsYourcompositionshouldbebasedontheoutlinebe
随机试题
长度为12的按关键字有序的查找表采用顺序组织方式。若采用二分查找方法,则在等概率情况下,查找失败时的ASL值是()
人类存在和文化创造的先决条件是________。
楼字自动化系统中的电力供应监控系统,装备了应急备用发电机组,可以在( )s内保证事故照明、消防用电等。
下列关于波士顿矩阵各种业务特征的表述中,正确的有()。
傣族大多住于平坝,村寨临江傍水,()建筑是傣族住房的特点,每户一座竹楼,自成院落。
2013年2月份,全同居民消费价格总水平同比上涨3.2%。其中,城市上涨3.2%,农村上涨3.3%;食品价格上涨6.0%,非食品价格上涨1.9%;消费品价格上涨3.3%,服务价格上涨3.1%。2月份,全国居民消费价格总水平环比上涨1.1%。其中,
对于雾霾天气,人们深受其害。殊不知,精神上也存在雾霾现象,如果不及时祛除,就会使心灵压抑灰暗,精神萎靡不振,思想浑浑噩噩,危害一点儿都不比雾霾天气小。现代社会,节奏快,压力大,矛盾多。这种精神的雾霾对个人生活和事业的害处多多。如何调适心情,驱散雾霾?一剂良
Note:Whenmorethanoneanswerisrequired,thesemaybegiveninanyorder.Somechoicesmayberequiredmorethanonce.A
It’swidelyagreedthatgirlsgenerallystarttalkingearlierthanboys,andusemorecomplexvocabulary.Whenthey(1)______sch
Peoplemayturntomagictoreducetheirfearanduncertaintyiftheyfeeltheyhavenocontrolovertheoutcomeofasituation.
最新回复
(
0
)