[填空题]Our Greatest Possession
Man is called in Greek the Zoon phonanta which means the(1) ______. What (1) ______
makes humanity different from the rest of the animal world is its capacity for(2) ______ (2) ______
a system of sound signals. Human beings tend to use speech not for conveying messages
or expressing feelings but merely for establishing and sustaining(3) ______ (3) ______
The(4) ______of language is essentially a part of the modernization of language. (4) ______
Modern English is grammatically much simpler than its ancestor Anglo-Saxon, and Italian
and Spanish are much simpler than their mother(5) ______ (5) ______
All of us say things we never said before, and without much(6) ______effort; we (6) ______
are always inventing new things to say. That is file great human talent, which is based on
a very simple peculiarity of the human brain--its capacity to think in(