职称英语考试

试题来源：2015年职称英语《综合类B级》热身模拟试题(1)
    Some Things We Know about Language
    Many things about language are a mystery, and many will always remain so. But some things we do know.
    First, we know that all human beings have a language of some sort. There is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language, no set of speech sounds by which the people communicate with one another.     Furthermore, in historical times, there has never been a race of men without a language.
    Second, there is no such thing as a primitive language. There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, who are, as we say, uncivilized, but the languages they speak are not primitive. In all known languages we can see complexities that must have been tens or thousands of years in developing.
    This has not always been well understood; indeed, the direct contrary has often been stated. Popular ideas of the language of the American Indians will illustrate. Many people have supposed that the Indians communicated in a very primitive system of noises. Study has proved this to be nonsense. There are, or were, hundreds of American Indian languages, and all of them turn out to be very complicated and very old. They are" certainly different from the languages that most of us are familiar with, but they are no more primitive than English and Greek.
    A third thing we know about language is that all languages are perfectly adequate. That is,each one is a perfect means of expressing the culture of the people who speak the language.
    Finally, we know that language changes. It is natural and normal for language to change;the only languages which do not change are the dead ones. This is easy to understand if we look backward in time. Change goes on in all aspects of language. Grammatical features change as do speech sounds, and changes in vocabulary are sometimes very extensive and may occur very rapidly. Vocabulary is the least stable part of any languages.
41.In the second paragraph the author thinks that__________.
A.some backward race doesn't have a language of its own
B.some race in history didn't possess a language of its own
C.any human race, whether backward or not, has a language
D.some races on earth can communicate without language
42、According to the author, people of undeveloped cultures can have languages.__________.
A.complicated
B.uncivilized
C.primitive
D.well-known
43、The author has used American Indian languages as an example to show that they are__________.
A.just as old as some well-known languages
B.just as sophisticated as some well-known languages
C.more developed than some well-known languages
D.more complex than some well-known languages
44、Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
A.A language is a means of expressing a particular culture.
B.All languages can well express their respective cultures.
C.American Indian languages are as sophisticated as English.
D.Some languages are better than other languages.
45、According to the author, language changes are most likely to occur in__________.
A.grammar.
B.pronunciation.
C.vocabulary.
D.intonation.

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网考网参考答案：C、A、B、D、C
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24%的考友选择了A选项
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考友解析与评论：
 · 这一题我选择的是C、A、B、D、C
 · 原先有道题和这题几乎一样，只是稍有不同，大家看看就可理解了，那个答案正确。
 · 我也选错了，不过这个题书上有原话