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
Languages will continue to diverge. Even if English were to become the universal language, it would still take many different fo
Languages will continue to diverge. Even if English were to become the universal language, it would still take many different fo
admin
2014-06-13
28
问题
Languages will continue to diverge. Even if English were to become the universal language, it would still take many different forms. (46)
Indeed the same could happen to English as has happened to Chinese: a language of intellectuals which doesn’t vary hugely alongside a large number of variants used by local peoples.
We will continue to teach other languages in some form, and not just for reasons of practicality. Learning a language is good for your mental health; it forces you to understand another cultural and intellectual system. So I hope British education will develop a more rational approach to the foreign languages available to students in line with their political importance. Because so many people believe it’s no longer important to know another language, I fear that time devoted to language teaching in schools may well continue to decline. (47)
But you can argue that learning another language well is more taxing than, say, learning to play chess well—it involves sensitivity to a set of complicated rules, and also to context.
Technology will certainly make a difference to the use of foreign languages. (48)
Computers may, for instance, alleviate the drudgery that a vast translation represents.
But no one who has seen a computer translation will think it can substitute for live knowledge of the different languages. A machine will always be behind the times. (49)
Still more important is the fact that no computer will ever get at the associations beyond the words associations that may not be expressed but which carry much of the meaning.
In languages like Arabic that context is very important. Languages come with heavy cultural baggage too—in French or German if you miss the cultural references behind a word you’re very likely to be missing the meaning. It will be very hard to teach all that to a computer.
(50)
All the predictions are that English will be spoken by a declining proportion of the world’s population in the 21st century.
I don’t think foreign languages will really become less important, but they might be perceived to be—and that would in the end be a very bad thing.
选项
答案
说真的,英语可能会出现类似汉语的情况:知识界使用的语言没发生太大的变化,许多方言与之并存。
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/YfO4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
CollegesportsintheUnitedStatesareahugedeal.AlmostallmajorAmericanuniversitieshavefootball,baseball,basketball
Thatboysandgirls—andmenandwomen—areprogrammedbyevolutiontobehavedifferentlyfromoneanotherisnowwidelyaccepted.
YouwanttoinviteSusantoaparty.Writeaninvitationlettertoher,elaboratingonthereasonwhysuchapartyshouldbehel
SenatorBarackObamalikestojokethatthebattlefortheDemocraticpresidentialnominationhasbeengoingonsolong,babies
YourfriendMr.Hancouldnotusehisdictionarybecauseofyourfault,andwritealetterinabout100wordstoexpressyourap
ForthispartyouareallowedthirtyminutestowriteacompositiononthetopicThePopularizationofMobilePhones.Youshould
Theideaisasaudaciousasitaltruistic:provideapersonallaptopcomputertoeveryschoolchild—particularlyinthepoorestp
Theword"interest"inthefirstparagraphmostprobablymeansItcanbeinferredfromthetextthat
Accordingtothepassage,itisdifficulttobecertainaboutthedistantfutureoftheuniversebecausewe______.Forwhomis
TheNotionandOperationthatthePopulationRaiseFundsPoliticiansdoit.Charitiestoo.Andnowfor-profitentrepreneurs
随机试题
黑便呕血
各类休克共同的病理生理变化是()
整个坝段不设纵缝,以一个坝段进行浇筑的是().
ABC会计师事务所委派A注册会计师担任上市公司甲公司2015年度财务报表审计项目合伙人,ABC会计师事务所和XYZ公司处于同一网络,审计项目组在审计中遇到下列事项:(1)甲公司于2014年8月首次公开发行股票并上市,A注册会计师自2010年度起担
目前物流产业界对第三方物流的期望非常高,这是因为()。
《公安机关人民警察辞退办法》第六条专门规定了人民警察不得辞退的条件,即:(1)();(2)患严重疾病或者负伤正在进行治疗的;(3)在孕期、产期或者哺乳期内的。
当前,我国已经进入全面建成小康社会决胜期。下列与之相关的说法错误的是
如果我们只把过去的一些文件逐字逐句照抄一通,______,更谈不到正确地解决什么问题。那样即使我们口头上大讲拥护毛泽东思想,实际上也只能是违反毛泽东思想。填入横线上最恰当的是()。
下列关于宪法优位的说法,正确的有()。(2013年多选53)
下面是关于串行通信的叙述,其中错误的是______。
最新回复
(
0
)