專八改錯(cuò)_歷屆(2000年-)真題及答案-文庫(kù)吧資料
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【正文】 6____ proposal that Americans should adopt Hebrew. Others favoured the adoption of Greek, though, as one man put it, things would certainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English ____7____ and made the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone ____8____ knows, the two countries adopted the practical and satisfactory solution of carrying with the same language as before. ____9____ Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown the world ____10____ that political independence and national identity can be plete without sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of a mon language. 2022 專八真題 短文改錯(cuò) From what has been said, it must be clear that no one can make very positive statements about how language originated. There is no material in any language today and in the earliest 1__________ records of ancient languages show us language in a new and 2__________ emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language 3_________ originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the 4__________ necessary evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remote tribes, no ancient records, providing evidence of a language with a large proportion of such cries 5__________ than we find in English. It is true that the absence of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in 6__________ other grounds too the theory is not very attractive. People of all races and languages make rather similar noises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that 7___________ such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen and Malaysians whose languages are utterly different, serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference 8___________ between these noises and language proper. We may say that the cries of pain or chortles of amusement are largely reflex actions, instinctive to large extent, 9____________ whereas language proper does not consist of signs but of these that have to be learnt and that are 10___________ wholly conventional. 2022 專八短文改錯(cuò) We use language primarily as a means of munication with other human beings. Each of us shares with the munity in which we live a store of words and meanings as well as agreeing conventions as 1_______ to the way in which words should be arranged to convey a particular 2_______ message: the English speaker has in his disposal vocabulary and a 3_______ set of grammatical rules which enables him to municate his 4_
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