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The first way we can approach language is as a phenomenon of the individual

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问题     The first way we can approach language is as a phenomenon of the individual person. It is concerned【C1】______describing and explaining language as a matter of human behavior. People speak and write; they also evidently read and understand【C2】______they hear. They are not born【C3】______so; they have to acquire these skills. Not everybody seems to develop them【C4】______the same degree. People may suffer accidents or diseases, which【C5】______their performance. Language is thus seen as part of human psychology, a【C6】______sort of behavior.
    When someone has been prohibited from doing something, we may【C7】______that he has understood the prohibition by observing that【C8】______he never behaves in that way. We cannot, of course, be absolutely sure that his【C9】______behavior is a result of his understanding; it might be【C10】______a loss of interest or【C11】______So behavior must【C12】______include【C13】______activity, often only【C14】______inferred from other observable behavior.
    Once we admit that the study of language behavior【C15】______describing and explaining the unob-servable, the situation becomes【C16】______more complicated. The study of language from this point of view can then be seen as a study of the specific properties, processes and states of the【C17】______This approach to language, as a phenomenon of the individual, is thus principally related to explaining how we acquire language, and its relation to general human cognitive【C18】______and【C19】______the psychological mechanisms【C20】______the comprehension and production of speech. [br] 【C7】
选项 A、refer
B、confer
C、defer
D、infer
答案 D
解析 语义衔接题。本题四个选项均带有词根“-fer”，refer意为“提到，涉及”；confer意为“授予，赠与”；defer意为“推迟，延期”；infer意为“推断，猜想”。此句的意思为， “当某人被禁止做某事时，我们可能会推断……”。
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