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1、 2022职称英语考试模全真拟试题卫生类C级第四套5Some things we know about languageMany things about language are a mystery, and many will always remain SOBut somethings we do knowFirst，we know that all human beings have a language of some sortThere is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language，n
2、o set of speech sounds by which the people communicate with one motherFurthermore，in historical times，there has never been a race of men without a languageSecond，there is no such thing as a primitive languageThere are many people whosecultures are undeveloped，who are，as we say，uncivilized, but the l
3、anguages they speak are not primitiveIn all known 1anguages we can see complexities that must have been tens of thousands of years in developingThis has not always been well understood；indeed, the direct contrary has often been statedPopular ideas of the 1anguage of the American Indians will illustr
4、ateMany people have supposed that the Indians communicated in a very primitive system of noisesStudy has proved this to be nonsenseThere are，or were，hundreds of American Indian languages，and a11 of them turn out to be very complicated and very old. They are certainly different from the languages tha
5、t most of us are familiar with，but they are no more primitive five than English and GreekA third thing we know about language is that all languages are perfectly adequateThat is, each one is a perfect means of expressing the culture of the people who speak the languageFinally, we know that language
6、changesIt is natural and normal for language to change；the only languages which do not change are the dead onesThis is easy to understand if we look backward in timeChange goes on in all aspects of languageGrammatical features change as do speech sounds，and changes in vocabulary are sometimes very e
7、xtensive and may occur very rapidlyVocabulary is the least stable part of any language词汇：racen种族primitiveadj原始的uncivilizedadj不开化的，落后的complexityn简单性，简单现象nonsensen胡说，没有依据的话extensiveadj广泛的vocabularyn词汇练习：1 In the second paragraph the author thinks thatA)some backward race doesnt have a language of its
8、ownB)some race in history didnt possess a language of its ownC)any human race，whether backward or not，has a languageD)some races on earth call communicate without language2 According to the author, people of undeveloped cultures can have_ languages.A)complicatedB)uncivilizedC)primitiveD)wellknown3Th
9、e author has used American Indian languages as an example to show that they areA)just as old as some well-known languagesB)just as sophisticated as some well-known languagesC)more developed than some well-known languagesD)more complex than some well-known languages4. Which of the following statement
10、s is INCORRECT?A)A language is a means of expressing a particular cultureB)All languages can well express their respective culturesC)American Indian languages are as sophisticated as EnglishD)Some languages are better than other languages5 According to the author, language changes are most likely to occur inA)grammarB)pronunciationC)vocabularyD)intonation
