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So far as we can tell, all human languages are equally complete and perfect

as instruments of communication: that is, every language appears to be well 1 equipped as any other to say the things their speakers want to say. 2 There may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive peoples or 3 cultures, but that is another matter. Certainly, not all groups of people are

equally competent in nuclear physics or psychology or the cultivation of rice or

the engraving of Benares brass. Whereas this is not the fault of their language. 4 The Eskimos can speak about snow with a great deal further precision and 5 subtlety than we can in English, but this is not because the Eskimo language

(one of those sometimes miscalled 'primitive') is inherently more precise and

subtle than English. This example does not come to light a defect in English, 6

a show of unexpected 'primitiveness'. The position is simply and obviously

that the Eskimos and the English live in similar environments. The English 7 language will be just as rich in terms for different kinds of snow, 8 presumably, if the environments in which English was habitually used made

such distinction as important. 9 Similarly, we have no reason to doubt that the Eskimo language could be

as precise and subtle on the subject of motor manufacture or cricket if these

topics formed the part of the Eskimos' life. For obvious historical reasons, 10 Englishmen in the nineteenth century could not talk about motorcars with the

minute discrimination which is possible today: cars were not a part of their

culture. But they had a host of terms for horse-drawn vehicles which send us, puzzled, to a historical dictionary when we are reading Scott or Dickens. How

many of us could distinguish between a chaise, a landau, a victoria, a brougham,

a coupe, a gig, a diligence, a whisky, a calash, a tilbury, a carriole, a phaeton,

and a clarence ?

2009年真题

The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes

from one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference (1)_____ between school lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learnt

in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener (2)__ has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. (3)_____

The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting

It may be something from twenty to seventy years. With the playground (4)_____ lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on whtin the very hour (5)_____ it is learnt; and in the general, it passes between children of the (6)_____

same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in age

between playmates to be more than five years. If therefore, a playground

rhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or (7)_____ even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitting over

and over; very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three (8)_____

hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live (9)____ after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the (10)____ original wording.

2008年真题

The desire to use language as a sign of national identity is a

very natural one, and in result language has played a prominent (1)__________ part in national moves. Men have often felt the need to cultivate (2)__________

a given language to show that they are distinctive from another (3)__________ race whose hegemony they resent. At the time the United States (4)___________ split off from Britain, for example, there were proposals that

independence should be linguistically accepted by the use of a (5)__________ different language from those of Britain. There was even one (6)__________ proposal that Americans should adopt Hebrew. Others favoured

the adoption of Greek, thought, as one man put it, things would

certainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English (7)__________ and made the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone (8)__________ know, the two countries adopted the practical and satisfactory

solution of carrying with the same language as before. (9)__________ Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown the world (10)_________ That political independence and national identity can be complete

Without sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of a common

language.

2007年真题

From what has been said, it must be clear that no one can

make very positive statements about how language originated.

There is no material in any language today and in the earliest (1)_____________ records of ancient languages show us language in a new and (2)_____________ emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language (3)_____________ originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the (4)_____________ necessary evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remote

tribes, no ancient records, providing evidence of a language with a

large proportion of such cries than we find in English. Ti is true that the (5)__________ absence of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in (6)____________ other grounds too the theory is not very attractive.

People of all races and languages make rather similar

noises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that such noises are (7)____________ similar on the lips of Frenchmen and Malaysians whose languages

are utterly different, serves to emphasize on the fundamental (8)___________ difference between these noises and language proper. We may

say that the cries of pain or chortles of amusement are largely

reflex actions, instinctive to large extent, whereas language (9)___________ proper does not consist of signs but of these that have to be learnt (10)___________ and that are wholly conventional.

2006年真题

We use language primarily as means of communication with

other human beings. Each of us shares with the community in which

we live a store of words and meanings as well as agreeing conven- (1)___________ tions as to the way in which words should be arranged to convey a (2)____________ particular message; the English speaker has in his disposal a vocabu- (3)____________ lary and a set of grammatical rules which inables him to communi- (4)___________ cate his thoughts and feelings, in a variety of styles, to the other (5)____________ English speakers. His vocabulary, in particular, both that which he

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