首页
登录
职称英语
[originaltext] It is generally thought that Arabic is a single language, spo
[originaltext] It is generally thought that Arabic is a single language, spo
游客
2023-12-29
34
管理
问题
It is generally thought that Arabic is a single language, spoken, written and understood by people in countries as widely separated as Iraq, Egypt and Morocco, but this is not so. It is only written Arabic (that is, the Classical Arabic of the Koran and the Modem Arabic of contemporary literature, journalism and broadcasting), that is more or less common to the whole of the Arab world. The colloquial Arabic which is spoken in the different Arab societies today differs as widely between Arab countries as do Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. In the Arab world, written Arabic acts as a kind of Esperanto, providing a means of communication between educated people of different Arab nationalities. Written Arabic is, paradoxically, spoken too: on the radio and television, in public speeches, as well as between Arabs from different countries. We could call it pan-Arabic. It is used in rather the same way as Latin was used by educated people in Europe in the Middle Ages.
Even in English, of .course, there are differences of grammar and vocabulary between the written and spoken language, but this difference is far less than that between the artificial pan-Arabic and the living colloquial language of any Arab country. Moreover, both written and spoken English are recognised in English-speaking countries as belonging to one livinglanguage, and both are taught in schools. Colloquial Arabic, on the other hand, is not regarded by the people who speak it as proper’ Arabic. Unlike colloquial English, it is not taught in schools, and it is not written; indeed, there is a strong feeling in Arab societies that it should not be used in a written form.
The educated Egyptian then uses pan-Arabic to talk to equally educated Iraqis, Saudis and Moroccans. No reasonable man, however, wishes to talk like a book or a newspaper, and the language that the same educated Egyptian uses with his family and with other Egyptians is quite different. This language is wholly Egyptian, and it is only spoken.
选项
A、Written Arabic.
B、Colloquial Arabic.
C、Esperanto.
D、Egyptian.
答案
A
解析
推理判断题。根据原文可知阿拉伯书面语同样运用在广播、电视和公共场合的演讲中,而The educated、Egyptian,then uses pan-Arabic to talk to equally educated Iraqis…而受过教育的埃及人使用泛阿拉伯语(即阿拉伯书面语)与其他阿拉伯世界受过教育的人士交谈。由此可推断,埃及人应在演讲时使用阿拉伯书面语。因此A项与原文相符,该项是正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3316640.html
相关试题推荐
Manythingsaboutlanguageareamystery,andmanywillalwaysremainso.Bu
Manythingsaboutlanguageareamystery,andmanywillalwaysremainso.Bu
Manythingsaboutlanguageareamystery,andmanywillalwaysremainso.Bu
Nineteenth-centuryscholarstriedtotracetheoriginsofmodernlanguagestoan
EnglishlanguagepublicationsinChinaaregrowinginvolumeand______.A、circula
An"epigram"isusuallydescriedasabrightorwittythoughtthatisterselyan
Itdisgustedhimwhenatheistsattackedreligion:hethoughttheywerevulgar.A、
Humanbeingsaresuperiortoanimalsthattheycanuselanguageasatoolofcom
InevertrustedhimbecauseIalwaysthoughtofhimassucha______character.A、g
Amistakeisrarelyatonedforbyasingleapology,howeverprofuse.A、extravagan
随机试题
Theauthorcitestheexampleofthe16-year-oldAlbanianhigh-schooldrop-outto
Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteacompositiononthetopicMy
为什么说以公有制为主体、多种所有制经济共同发展,是我国社会主义初级阶段的一项基本
左心房扩大的早期X线征象是()A.左前斜位左主支气管受压抬高 B.后前位左心缘
冰雪天气时,检查设备积雪、覆冰厚度情况,及时清除构架上形成的冰柱。
关于福费廷业务的特点,下列说法正确的有()。A:属于中期融资业务 B:适合于1
下列计量单位中,属于建筑施工单位产品人工时间定额的单位是( )。A.小时 B
(2017年真题)下列安全出口的检查结果中,符合现行国家消防技术标准的有(
银行承兑汇票的承兑银行,应当按照票面金额向出票人收取()的手续费。A:千分之一
不宜采用强夯法施工的是()。A.高饱和度的粉土 B.碎石土 C.杂填土 D
最新回复
(
0
)