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Culture is the total sum of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sense, every group has a culture, however savage, undeveloped, or uncivilized it may seem to be.
To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic rank or hierarchy among languages.
People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped forms of speech, consisting largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of "backward" languages that no spoken tongue answers that description today.
Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of ideas. They fall behind our Western languages not in their sound pattern of grammatical structures, which usually are fully adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflect the objects and activities known to their speakers.Even in this department, however, two things are to be noteD、First, all languages seem to possess the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence or by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own system. Second, the objects and activities requiring names and distinctions in" backward" languages, while different from ours, are often surprisingly numerous and complicateD、A、Western language distinguishes merely between two degrees of remoteness( "this" and "that") ; some languages of theAmerican Indians distinguish between what is close to the speaker, or to the person addressed, or out of sight, or in the past, or in the future.
This study of language, in turn, casts a new light upon the claim of the anthropologists that all cultures are to be viewed independently, and without ideas of rank or hierarchy.
What is implied in this passage is that the study of languages ______.
A、has challenged anthropological studies
B、has reinforced the view of the anthropologists
C、is the same as the study of anthropology
D、has contradicted the result of the study of anthropology
网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
推理判断题。由文中第二段可知，人类学家的观点是文化没有高低之分，然后作者以一个语言学家的眼光从语言学方面来进一步论证了人类学家的观点。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
Culture is the total sum of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sense, every group has a culture, however savage, undeveloped, or uncivilized it may seem to be.
To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic rank or hierarchy among languages.
People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped forms of speech, consisting largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of "backward" languages that no spoken tongue answers that description today.
Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of ideas. They fall behind our Western languages not in their sound pattern of grammatical structures, which usually are fully adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflect the objects and activities known to their speakers.Even in this department, however, two things are to be noteD、First, all languages seem to possess the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence or by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own system. Second, the objects and activities requiring names and distinctions in" backward" languages, while different from ours, are often surprisingly numerous and complicateD、A、Western language distinguishes merely between two degrees of remoteness( "this" and "that") ; some languages of theAmerican Indians distinguish between what is close to the speaker, or to the person addressed, or out of sight, or in the past, or in the future.
This study of language, in turn, casts a new light upon the claim of the anthropologists that all cultures are to be viewed independently, and without ideas of rank or hierarchy.
What is implied in this passage is that the study of languages ______.
A、has challenged anthropological studies
B、has reinforced the view of the anthropologists
C、is the same as the study of anthropology
D、has contradicted the result of the study of anthropology
网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
推理判断题。由文中第二段可知，人类学家的观点是文化没有高低之分，然后作者以一个语言学家的眼光从语言学方面来进一步论证了人类学家的观点。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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