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  3. The development of writing was one of the great human inventions. It is difficult 【C1】______ many people to imagine language wi

The development of writing was one of the great human inventions. It is difficult 【C1】______ many people to imagine language wi

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问题      The development of writing was one of the great human inventions. It is difficult 【C1】______ many people  to imagine language without writing; the spoken word seems intricately tied to the written 【C2】______ . But children speak 【C3】______ they learn to write. And millions of people in the world speak languages with 【C4】______ written form. Among these people oral literature abounds, and crucial knowledge 【C5】______ memorized  and passed 【C6】______ generations. But human memory is short-lived, and the brain’s storage capacity is finite. 【C7】______ overcame such problems and allowed communication across the miles 【C8】______ through the years and centuries. Writing permits a society 【C9】______ permanently record its poetry, its history and its technology.
     It might be argued 【C10】______ today we have electronic means of recording sound and 【C11】______ to produce  films and television, and thus writing is becoming obsolete. 【C12】______ writing became extinct, there would be no knowledge of electronics 【C13】______ TV technicians to study; there would be, in fact, little technology in years to 【C14】______ . There would be no film or TV scripts, no literature, no books, no mail, no newspapers, no science. There would be 【C15】______ advantages: no bad novels, junk mail, poison-pen letters, or "unreadable" income-tax forms, but the losses would outweigh the 【C16】______ .
   There are almost as 【C17】______ legends and stories on the invention of writing as there are 【C18】______ the origin of language. Legend has it that Cadmus, Prince of Phoenicia and founder of the city of Thebes, 【C19】______ the alphabet and brought it with him to Greece. In one Chinese fable the four eyed dragon-god T’ sang Chien invented writing. In  (70)
myths, the Babylonian god Nebo and the Egyptian god Nebo gave humans writing as well as speech.
【C7】______
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答案Writing
解析 该空格的前面一句话“但是，人的记忆力是短暂的，大脑的信息储存是有限的”给你一种暗示：没有书面形式的口头语言虽能被人们记住并通过上一代向下一代讲述传递，但它是有局限性的。而文章第一句话就明确指出“书面的写作形式的发展是人类的重大发明之一”。无疑此空涉及的应是writing—人类重大发明之一，能解释口头语言的局限性问题。
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