Tracing missing persons can take much patient detective work. But a special kind of "private eye" can trace the missing ancestor

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问题    Tracing missing persons can take much patient
detective work. But a special kind of "private eye"
can trace the missing ancestors of whole peoples by 【1】______
studying the clues buried by words.                                      
   These philologists, such as the language detectives【2】______
are called, have traced the word trail back                  
from peoples in Europe, India, South Africa, the                  
Americas, and the Pacific islands in a tiny name-   【3】______
less, and forgotten tribe that roamed central Eurasia                  
5,000 to 6,000 years ago, before the dawn                                      
of writing history.                                 【4】______
   Since a long time scholars puzzled over the      【5】______
striking difference of words in different languages.【6】______
In Dutch, vader; in Latin, pater; in old Irish,                  
athir;  in Persian, pidar; in the Sanskrit of                  
distant India,  pitr. These words all sounded                  
likely and meant the same thing--"father".          【7】______
   Where did it happen that widely separated        【8】______
peoples used such close related sound symbols.      【9】______
The problem baffled linguists for years. The more                  
so because "father" was but one of a host of such                  
coincidences. Towards the end of the 18 century it  【10】______
dawned on scholars that perhaps all these words
stemmed from some common languages.
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答案将close改为副词closely。

解析 因为形容词close不能修饰过去分词related,例如:Closely associated with the increased Use of computers is the increase of unemployment among unskilled and semiskilled workers.随着计算机的应用越来越广泛,越来越多的不熟练工人或半熟练工人失业。
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