首页
登录
职称英语
Culture is the sum total of all the tradition, customs, beliefs, and ways to
Culture is the sum total of all the tradition, customs, beliefs, and ways to
游客
2023-07-23
55
管理
问题
Culture is the sum total of all the tradition, customs, beliefs, and ways to life of a given group of human being. In this sense, every group has a culture, however savage, undeveloped, or uncivilized it may seem to us. To the professional anthropologists, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic hierarchy(等级制度) among languages.
People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped forms of speech, consisted largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of "backward" languages that no spoken tongue answers the description today. Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of ideas. They fall behind our western language not in their sound patterns or grammatical structure, which usually are fully adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflect the objects and activities known to their speakers. Even in this department, however, two things are to be noted: 1. All languages seem to possess the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence or by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own system. 2, Tile objects and activities requiring names and distinctions in "backward" languages, while different from ours, are often surprisingly numerous and complicated. A western language distinguished merely between two degrees of remoteness ("this" and "that"); some languages of the American Indians distinguish between what is close to the speaker, or to the person addressed, or removed from both; or out of sight, or in the past, or in the future.
This study of language, in turn casts a new light upon the claim of the anthropologists that all cultures are to be viewed independently, and without ideas of rank or hierarchy. [br] The statement that "every group has a culture" grows out of the author’s ____________.
选项
A、bias in regard to civilized human
B、philosophy
C、feeling about human beings
D、definition of culture
答案
D
解析
推理判断题。原文第一段提到In this sense,every group has a culture...In this sense指的是前一句提到的Culture is the sum total of all the tradition,customs,beliefs,and ways to life of a given group of human being,也就是文化的定义,故答案选D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2861246.html
相关试题推荐
Liketime,spaceisperceiveddifferentlyindifferentcultures.Spatialcon
Liketime,spaceisperceiveddifferentlyindifferentcultures.Spatialcon
Liketime,spaceisperceiveddifferentlyindifferentcultures.Spatialcon
Liketime,spaceisperceiveddifferentlyindifferentcultures.Spatialcon
Liketime,spaceisperceiveddifferentlyindifferentcultures.Spatialcon
Liketime,spaceisperceiveddifferentlyindifferentcultures.Spatialcon
Thetraditionalapproach____________(处理复杂问题)istobreakthemdownintosmalle
Kitchendutiesmayhavetraditionallybeenviewedaswomen’swork,butnot
Kitchendutiesmayhavetraditionallybeenviewedaswomen’swork,butnot
Kitchendutiesmayhavetraditionallybeenviewedaswomen’swork,butnot
随机试题
(Walking)inthestreet,thecarsandbuses(arerunning)(like)(streams).A、Wal
FixingaWorldThatFostersObesityA)WhyareAmericansgett
ThethemeofWorldNoTobaccoDayin2003is"Tobacco-FreeFilms,Tobacco
设计题目:单层工业厂房改建社区休闲中心设计 任务要求 1.原有单层工业厂
关于医院内感染知识培训,错误的叙述是()A.培训内容包括管理知识和专业知识
凡律令该载不尽事理,若断罪而无正条者,引律比附。应加应减,定拟罪名,转达刑部,议
假设其他条件不变,我国东北灾害性天气的出现,将对下列哪些期货合约价格造成影响?(
《医疗事故处理条例》规定,医疗机构发生下列重大医疗过失行为,应当在12小时内向所
下列( )是货物进境后、放行结关前.经海关批准可将其全部退运境外的货物. A
所谓噪声敏感建筑物,是指()、住宅等需要保持安静的建筑物。A.医院 B.学校
最新回复
(
0
)