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People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arri
People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arri
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People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arrive at the conclusion that it developed(1)_____ as a system of grunts, hisses and cries and(2)_____ a very simple affair in the beginning.(3)_____, when we observe the language behaviour of(4)_____ we regard as primitive cultures, we find it(5)_____ complicated. It was believed that an Eskimo must have at the tip of his tongue a vocabulary of more than 10,000 words (6)_____ to get along reasonably well, much larger than the(7)_____ vocabulary of an average businessman who speaks English.(8)_____, these Eskimo words are far more highly inflected(词尾变化的) than(9)_____ of any of the well-known European languages, for a(10)_____ noun can be spoken or written in(11)_____ hundred different forms, each (12)_____ a precise meaning different from (13)_____ of any other. The forms of the verbs are even more(14)______. The Eskimo language is, (15)_____, one of the most difficult in the world to learn,(16)_____ the result that almost no traders or explorers have(17)______ tried to learn it. (18)______, there has grown up, in communication between Eskimos and whites, a jargon(19)_____ to the pidgin English used in Old China, with a vocabulary of from 300 to 600 uninflected words. Most of them are derived from Eskimo but some are derived from English, Danish, Spanish, Hawaiian and other languages. It is this jargon that is usually(20)_____ by travellers as "the Eskimo language". [br] (10)
选项
A、single
B、singular
C、plural
D、compound
答案
A
解析
这句话意在强调爱斯基摩单词词尾变化的复杂性,a single noun表示“单单一个名词”.single在句子中起强调的作用,故选A。singularnoun“单数名词”;plural noun“复数名词”,compound noun“复合名词”。
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