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Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways
Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways
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Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sense, every group has a culture, however savage, undeveloped, or uncivilized it may seem to us.
To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic hierarchy among languages.
People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped forms of speech, consisting 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 that 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 languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, 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. The objects and activities requiring names and distinctions in" backward" languages, while different from ours, are often surprisingly numerous and complicated. A Western language distinguishes merely between two degrees of remoteness C 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] Implied but not stated: ______
选项
A、The study of languages has discredited anthropological studies
B、The study of languages has reinforced anthropologists in their view that there is no hierarchy among cultures
C、The study of languages is the same as the study of anthropology
D、The study of languages casts a new light upon the claims of anthropologists
答案
B
解析
推论题。A项“语言的研究已经证实人类学的研究是不可信的”为错误的结论(有悖最后一段)。B项中 reinforce(进一步证实:加深)在文中最后一段有casts a new light on(使某事显得更加清楚:进一步阐明)支持,且该项比文中表述得更直白。c、D两项文中有明确陈述。
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