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t only humans have developed the language which is more【M1】______ than a set of prearranged signals. Our speech even differs on a physical way【M2】______ from the communication of other animals. It comes from a speech center which does not respond instinctively, but organizes sound and meaning on a rational basis. This section of the brain is unique to humans. When and how the special talent of language developed is impossible to say. So it is generally【M3】______ assumed that their evolution must have been a long process. Our ancestors【M4】______ were probably speaking a million of years ago, but with a slower delivery, a【M5】______ smaller vocabulary and of all a simpler grammar than we are accustomed to.【M6】______ The origins of human language will perhaps remain for ever obscure. With【M7】______ contrast the origin of individual languages has been the subject of very precise study over the past two centuries. There are about 5,000 languages spoken in the world today(a third of them in Africa), but scholars group them together into relative few families—probably less than twenty. Languages are linked【M8】______ to each other in shared words or sounds or grammatical constructions. The【M9】______ theory is that the members of each linguistic group have descended from one language, a common ancestor. In many cases that original language is judged by the experts to have been spoken in surprisingly recent times—as little a few【M10】______ thousand years ago.

【M1】

Predication analysis is put forward by

A．John Searle.

B．G. Leech.

C．M. A. K. Halliday.

D．John Austin.

The distinction between competence and performance is analogous to that between

A．synchronic and diachronic.

B．speech and writing.

C．prescriptive and descriptive.

D．langue and parole.

Which among the following doesnt belong to associative meaning?

A．Social meaning.

B．Reflected meaning.

C．Conceptual meaning.

D．Collocative meaning.

Which of the following writers is an American poet of the 19th century?

A．Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

B．Henry James.

C．Alfred Tennyson.

D．William Dean Howells.

The Romantic Period in American literary history ended with the publication of

A．Washington Irving"s Tales of a Traveler.

B．Walt Whitman"s Leaves of Grass.

C．Washington Irving"s The Sketch Book.

D．James Fenimore Cooper"s The Pioneer.

Which of the following is one of "the Lake Poets"?

A．William Blake.

B．Robert Burns.

C．John Keats.

D．Robert Southey.

Which among the following is the highest mountain in Britain?

A．Ben Nevis.

B．The Alps.

C．The Rocky Mountains.

D．Scafell Pike.

Which city is considered as "the cradle of American Liberty"?

A．Philadelphia.

B．Boston.

C．Los Angeles.

D．Detroit.

ustralia?

A．Appointing times for holding, proroguing, and dissolution of Parliament.

B．Assenting in the Queen"s name to proposed laws passed by both Houses.

C．Choosing and summoning Executive Councilors.

D．Controlling the whole executive power.