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Every group has a culture, however uncivilized it may seem to us. To the pro

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问题     Every group has a culture, however 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 undeveloped. 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. They differ from 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 aspect, two things are to be noted. First, 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. Second, the objects and activities requiting names and distinctions in "backward" languages, while different from the west, are often surprisingly numerous and complicated. A western language distinguishes merely between two degrees of remoteness "this" and "that". But 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. [br] Most languages of uncivilized groups are______.
选项 A、adequate
B、numerous
C、ingenious
D、ingenuous
答案 C
解析 本题考查词义理解。根据文章第二段第三句“Most languages of uncivilized groupsare，by our most severe standards，extremely complex．”可知，根据最严格的标准，未开化的群体中的大多数的语言都很复杂。complex“复杂的”；adequate“足够的”；numerous“很多的”；ingenious“有独创性的，精致的”；ingenuous“坦白的”。只有C项与原文complex的意思相近。所以，答案是C。
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