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People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arrive at the conclusion that it developed gradually as

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问题     People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arrive at the conclusion that it developed gradually as a system of grunts, hisses and cries and 【B1】______ a very simple affair【B2】______ . 【B3】______, when we observe the language behaviour of 【B4】______ we regard as primitive cultures, we find it 【B5】______ complicated. It was believed that an Eskimo must have at the tip of his tongue a vocabulary of more than 10,000 words 【B6】______ to get along reasonably well, much larger than the【B7】______ vocabulary of an average businessman who speaks English.
    【B8】______ these Eskimo words are far more highly inflected than 【B9】______ of any of the well-known European languages, for a【B10】______noun can be spoken or written in【B11】______hundred different forms, each【B12】______a precise meaning different from【B13】______of any other. The forms of the verbs are even more【B14】______. The Eskimo language is,【B15】______one of the most difficult in the world to learn,【B16】______the result that almost no traders or explorers have【B17】______tried to learn it.【B18】______, there has grown up, in communication between Eskimos and whites, a jargon【B19】______to the pidgin English used in Old China, with a vocabulary of from 300 to 600 uninflected words. Most of them are derived from Eskimo but some are derived from English, Daish, Spanish, Hawaiian and other languages. It is this jargon that is usually【B20】______by travellers as "the Eskimo language".
【B11】
选项 A、some
B、several
C、various
D、varied
答案B
解析 考查形容词辨析。several hundred在这里表示“数百…”，与另一个形容词different一起，用来修饰名词中心词forms，符合文意。故B．several为正确选项。some表示“一些”时后面与名词搭配，表示“大约”时后面可与数词搭配，但一般不直接与单位词搭配；various和varied本身就表示“不同的，多种多样的”，与本句中的different冲突，此外这两个词与数词或单位词搭配时一般位于其后，故排除。
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