Many things about language are a
mystery, and many will always remain so. But some things we do know.
First, we know that all human beings have a language of some sort. There
is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language. And, in
historical times, there has never been a race of men without a
language. Second, there is no such thing as a primitive
language. There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, who are, as we
say, uncivilized, but the languages they speak are not primitive. In all known
languages we can see complexities that must have been tens of thousands of years
in developing. This has not always been well understood; indeed, the direct
contrary has often been stated. Popular ideas of the language of the American
Indians will illustrate. Many people have supposed that the Indians communicated A. some backward race doesn’t have a language of its own B. some race in history didn’t possess a language of its own C. any human race, whether backward or not, has a language D. some races on earth can communicate without language
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Many things about language are a
mystery, and many will always remain so. But some things we do know.
First, we know that all human beings have a language of some sort. There
is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language. And, in
historical times, there has never been a race of men without a
language. Second, there is no such thing as a primitive
language. There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, who are, as we
say, uncivilized, but the languages they speak are not primitive. In all known
languages we can see complexities that must have been tens of thousands of years
in developing. This has not always been well understood; indeed, the direct
contrary has often been stated. Popular ideas of the language of the American
Indians will illustrate. Many people have supposed that the Indians communicated A. complicated B. uncivilized C. primitive D. well known
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Many things about language are a mystery, and many will always remain so. But some things we do know.
First, we know that all human beings have a language of some sort. There is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language. And, in historical times, there has never been a race of men without a language.
Second, there is no such thing as a primitive language. There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, who are, as we say, uncivilized, but the languages they speak are not primitive. In all known languages we can see complexities that must have been tens of thousands of years in developing. This has not always been well understood; indeed, the direct contrary has often been stated. Popular ideas of the language of the American Indians will illustrate. Many people have supposed that the Indians communicated in a very primitive system of noises. Study has proved this to be nonsense. There are, or were, hundreds of American Indian languages, and all of them turn out to be very complicated and very old. They are certainly different from the languages that most of us are familiar with, but they are no more primitive than. English and Greek.
A third thing we know about language is that all languages are perfectly adequate. That is, each one is a perfect means of expressing the culture of the people who speak the language.
Finally, we know that language changes. It is natural and normal for language to changes the only languages which do not change are the dead ones. This is easy to understand if we look backward in time. Change goes on in all aspects of language. Grammatical features change as do speech sounds, and changes in vocabulary are sometimes very extensive and may occur very rapidly. Vocabulary is the least stable part of any language.
In the second paragraph the author thinks that(). A. some backward race doesn’t have a language of its own B. some race in history didn’t possess a language of its own C. any human race, whether backward or not, has a language D. some races on earth can communicate without language
[单项选择]Some Things We Know about Language Many things about language are a mystery, and many will always remain so. But some things we do know. First, we know that all human beings have a language of some sort. There is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language, no set of speech sounds by which the people communicate with one another. Furthermore, in historical times, there has never been a race of men without a language. Second, there is no such thing as a primitive language. There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, who are, as we say, uncivilized, but the languages they speak are not primitive. In all known languages we can see complexities that must have been tens of thousands of years in developing. This has not always been well understood; indeed, the direct contrary has often been stated. Popular ideas of the language of the American Indians will illustrate. Many people have supposed that the Indians communicated in A. some backward race doesn’t have a language of its own B. some race in history didn’t possess a language of its own C. any human race, whether backward or not, has a language D. some races on earth can communicate without language
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There are so many bad things about women drivers, I don’t know where to start. I guess I will get the bail rolling by talking about one of my biggest pet peeves. Why do women have to wait until they are in the car and barreling down the highway at sixty miles an hour before they decide it is time to put on their makeup
Is there a law that I don’t know about that says women have to do their makeup in the car because the bathroom isn’t good enough for them I don’t know if anyone has ever informed women, but the mirror in the car is not a makeup mirror. The mirror is used for looking at other cars and pedestrians. So please do us all a favor and do your makeup before you leave the house.
The next order of business for the men should be to find out whose brilliant idea it was for women to have a phone in the car. This has disaster written all over it. Everyone knows that women can’t even walk and chew gum at the same time, so how in the h A. sarcastic B. serious C. sympathetic D. conservative
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