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  3. How men first learned to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is tha

How men first learned to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is tha

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问题     How men first learned to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to ex press thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken, or written in letters, we call words.
    There power of words, then, lies in their associations the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something to us increases.
    Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions.
The origin of language is ______.
选项 A、a legend handed down from the past
B、a matter that is hidden or secret
C、a question difficult to answer
D、a problem not yet solved
答案B
解析 文章第一段第一句的意思是：我们还不知道人们是怎样第一次创造单词的，换句话说，语言的来源仍是个谜。
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