| 神秘内容 Loading...改错题:     From what has been said, it must be clear that no one can (来源:www.EnglishCN.com)    make very positive statements about how language originated.   There is no material in any language today and in the earliest (1) and→or   records of ancient languages show us language in a new and (2) show→showing   emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language (3) the 删除   originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the (4) and→but   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) large→lager   than we find in English. It is true that the absence   of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in (6) in→on   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) return→response   such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen   and Malaysians whose languages are utterly different,   serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference (8)on 删除   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) ∧a   whereas language proper does not consist of signs   but of these that have to be learnt and that are (10) these→those   |