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  3. The changes in language will continue forever, but no one knows sure 【B1】______ who does the changing. One possibili

The changes in language will continue forever, but no one knows sure 【B1】______ who does the changing. One possibili

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问题     The changes in language will continue forever, but no one knows sure             【B1】______
who does the changing. One possibility is that children are responsible. A
professor of linguistic at the University of Hawaii, explores this in one of his     【B2】______
recent books. Sometimes around 1880, a language catastrophe occurred in              【B3】______
Hawaii when thousands of emigrant workers were brought to the islands to             【B4】______
work for the new sugar industry. These people speaking different languages
were unable to communicate with each other or with the native Hawaiians or
the dominant English-speaking owners of the plantations. So they first spoke
in Pidgin English-- the sort of thing such mixed language populations have           【B5】______
always done. A pidgin is not real]y a language at all. It is more like a set of
verbal signals used to name objects and without the grammatical rules needed
for expressing thoughts and ideas. And then, within a single generation, the         【B6】______
whole mass of mixed people began speaking a totally new tongue: Hawaiian             【B7】______
Creole. The new speech was contained ready-made words borrowed from all              【B8】______
the original tongues, but beared little or no resemblance to the predecessors in     【B9】______
the rules used for stringing the words together. Although generally regarded as      【B10】_____
primitive language, Hawaiian Creole had a highly sophisticated grammar.
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答案∧sure →for(或者sure→surely)
解析 本题考查词组搭配的用法。在sure前加for。for sure 是colloquial usage，意为certainly。如果改成surely也可以，surely (formal)作为副词有certainly的意思。
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