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【分析解答题】From what has been said, it must be clear that no one can makevery positive statements about how language originateD、There is no material in any language today and in the earliest(S1) _________records of ancient languages shows us language in a new and(S2) _________emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language (S3) _________originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the necessary (S4) _________evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remote tribes, no ancientrecords, providing evidence of a language with a large proportion of (S5) _________such cries than we find inEnglish. It is true that the absenceof such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in other grounds(S6) _________too the theory is not very attractive. People of all races and languagesmake rather similar noises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that (S7) _________such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen and Malaysians,whose languages are utterly different, serves to emphasize on the (S8) _________fundamental difference between these noises and language proper.We may say that the cries of pain or chortles of amusement are largelyreflex actions, instinctive to large extent, whereas language proper (S9) _________does not consist of signs but of these that have to be learnt and(S10) _________that are wholly conventional.
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