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Culture is the sum total of all the tradition, customs, beliefs, and ways to

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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] Which of the following is implied but not stated in the passage?
选项 A、The study of language is the same as the study of anthropology.
B、The study of language has reinforced anthropologists in their view that there are no hierarchy among cultures.
C、The study of language discredited the anthropological studies.
D、The study of language casts a new light upon the claims of anthropologists.
答案 B
解析 推理判断题。原文提到人类学家研究文化，语言学家研究语言，因此语言的研究不等于人类学的研究，排除A。原文最后一段的内容说明B正确，casts a new light upon即是说reinforce，并且claim的内容说明语言的研究加强的是人类学家文化没有等级的观点，因为语言没有等级。C不符原文。D是原文陈述的内容，不是原文暗示的内容。
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