首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Culture is the sum total of all the tradition, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sens
Culture is the sum total of all the tradition, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sens
admin
2012-11-30
23
问题
Culture is the sum total of all the tradition, 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 (等级,阶层) among languages.
People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped forms of speech, misting largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that language in general began as a series of grants and groans, it is a fact established by the study if "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 fifty adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflects 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 requiting names and distinctions in "backward" languages, while different from ours, are often surprisingly numerous and complicated. A Western language distinguished merely between two degrees of remoteness ("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 culture are to be viewed independently, and without ideas of rank or hierarchy.
About the vocabularies, the author believed that languages, whether civilized or not, have______.
选项
A、grammatical structures
B、an ability to transfer ideas
C、their own sound patterns
D、the potential for expanding vocabulary
答案
D
解析
细节题。根据文章的第三段All languages seem to possess the machinery for vocabulary expansion(所有的语言都有词汇扩展能力。)作出选择。选项D正确。其他选项都不合题意。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/43rFFFFM
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
ThefewEnglishpeoplewhoareintheregionhavebeen______intoFrenchculture.
Thisattitudebecomespartoftheirsubcultureandis______fromgenerationtogeneration.
Thevastmajorityofpeopleinanygivenculturewill______totheestablishedstandardsofthatculture.
Theabuseofwaterresourceshasseriously__________theexistenceofhumanbeings.
Aglobe-spanningU.N.digitallibraryseekingtodisplayandexplainthewealthofallhumancultureshasgoneintooperationo
Aglobe-spanningU.N.digitallibraryseekingtodisplayandexplainthewealthofallhumancultureshasgoneintooperationo
随机试题
A.红细胞的寿命B.遗传性贫血C.特殊的溶血D.祛除病因E.依赖输血
枕骨大孔疝时被压迫的脑组织是
水利工程发生特大质量事故后由()组织有关单位提出处理方案。
根据《水利水电工程等级划分及洪水标准》的规定,某水库总库容为5×107m3,该水库的工程等别为()。
A货主委托B货代公司办理一个20英尺集装箱货物(500箱服装)的出口事宜。装货港为青岛港,卸货港为日本神户港。B货代公司到C船公司订舱完毕,货物顺利装箱、重箱入场、装船。船名:STAR轮;航次:009。C船公司签发B/L(号码×××)给B货代公司。由于D收
全面结算会员期货公司应当以()向期货交易所缴纳结算担保金。
证券公司设立行使证券公司经营管理职权的机构,其成员不可以是()。Ⅰ.董事会秘书Ⅱ.经理Ⅲ.职工代表Ⅳ.独立董事
房地产开发企业在进行营销渠道比较和决策时,应考虑的因素有()。
下列各项中,可以导致银行汇票无效的情形有()。
从长期看,决定一国货币汇率走势的是()。
最新回复
(
0
)