共享题干题 (三) Some Things We Know About Language根据以下材料，回答下列的问题。 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 municate 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 plexities 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 municated 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 plicated 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 change ; 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.1.[不定向选择题]Which of the following statements is correct?A.A language can express many cultures. B.All languages can well express their respective cultures. C.American Indian languages are not as sophisticated as English. D.Some languages are better than other languages. 2.[不定向选择题]According to the author, people of undeveloped cultures can have languages.A.plicated B.uncivilized C.primitive D.well-known
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1.参考答案：B
参考解析：B根据第五段“That is,each one…who speak the language.”可知，B项正确。
2.参考答案：A
参考解析：A此题的答案来自第三段。3.[不定向选择题]In the second paragraph the passage tells us 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 municate without language