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One of the liveliest debates in linguistics is over whether all languages share fundamental properties. If so, perhaps language

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问题     One of the liveliest debates in linguistics is over whether all languages
share fundamental properties. If so, perhaps language is a universal feature
of evolution. To find out, scholars have looked to other universal features,
and one in special:  no society on Earth lacks music. The comparison【M1】________
illuminates that is special about both.                          【M2】________
    Music and language seem intimately linked, but how? Did language
start with song, as Darwin believed? Or is music "auditory cheesecake"
that developed of language and other useful faculties, as Steven Pinker, a【M3】________
Harvard psychologist, has said? Is music it a language, as Stevie Wonder【M4】________
intoned? Might the two be fundamentally same?                    【M5】________
    Some similarities are obvious. Both can utilise the unique human
vocal tract. Both have a kind of beat. Both can express emotion. Both can
be neither carefully composed or spontaneously improvised.  And both are【M6】________
high social.  Although the origin of music is unclear, it seems likely to【M7】________
have included celebration, communal worship or martial inspiration and【M8】________
co-ordination.
    At a structural level the parallels are striking, too. With a finite set of
notes or words, and a finite set of rules, an inexhaustible variety of novel
melodies or sentences can be created. This "discrete infinity" is often said
to be a hallmark of human language. Animal communication, by contrast, 【M9】________
is only able to convey a limited number of thought (the location of a【M10】________
source of food, for example, or the presence of a predator).
【M9】
选项
答案a→the
解析 冠词误用。联系上下文可知，该句意为“这种‘离散的无限性’通常被认为是人类语言的标志”。此处．hallmark表示特指，应使用定冠词，故将a改为the。
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