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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

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问题     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.
What’s the purpose of the author writing this passage?
选项 A、To compare and contrast common language and artificial language.
B、To show the difficulty in communication among people of different nationalities
C、To convince the audience that language barriers are difficult to eliminate.
D、To illustrate the challenge of mastering a foreign language.
答案C
解析 通读全文可知本文主要是讲述现存的几种主要语言不可能成为国际通用语言，语言障碍还会长期存在。故正确答案为C)项。
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