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　　 People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arrive at the conclusion that it developed gradually

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问题 　　  People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arrive at the conclusion that it developed gradually as a system of grunts, hisses and cries and 【B1】______   a very simple affair in the beginning. 【B2】______   , when we observe the language behaviour of 【B3】______    we regard as primitive cultures, we find it 【B4】______   complicated. It was believed that an Eskimo must have at the tip of his tongue a vocabulary of more than 10,000 words 【B5】______   to get along reasonably well, much larger than the active vocabulary of an average businessman who speaks English. 【B6】______   , these Eskimo words are far more highly inflected (词尾变化的) than   【B7】______   of any of the well-known European languages, for a 【B8】______   noun can be spoken or written in 【B9】______   hundred different forms, each 【B10】______  a precise meaning different from that of any other. The forms of the verbs are even more 【B11】______    The Eskimo language is, therefore, one of the most difficult in the world to learn, 【B12】______   the result that almost no traders or explorers have 【B13】______   tried to learn it. Consequently, there has grown up, in communication between Eskimos and whites, a jargon 【B14】______   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 【B15】______    by travellers as "the Eskimo language".
【B8】
选项 A、single
B、singular
C、plural
D、compound
答案A
解析 词汇辨析能力。single表示“单一的”、“一个的”。singular表示“单数的”、“独一的”、“非凡的”、“奇特的”等。plural表示“复数的”。compound表示“复合的”。
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