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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.
【C3】______
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解析 此句为主从复合句。在前句分句中作者阐明“口语的词汇似乎与书面语言紧密而又复杂地联系在一起”，而此句作者用具有转折之意的but进一步阐述“但是，孩子们学写字之前就会说话了”。究竟是“之前(before)”还是“之后(after)”，亦可根据一般常识做出判断。
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