The following are all mentioned as reasons why airlines are having a hard time except that ________.
A. the tourist industry is experiencing an all—time low
B. there is no increase in the number of passengers
C. there are more seats on the planes than needed
D. the competition between airlines is strong
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Financial support from both private organizations and the government has made possible______
A. they can find the best students
B. the university's academic advancement and physical extension
C. some of the most distinguished scholars of the world
D. where a sports meet is held every year
E. must have been the toP students in their classes
F. must be hardworking
Which of ole following best describes Callahan’s attitude to anti—ageing technology?
A. optimistic.
B. Pessimistic.
C. Reserved.
D. Negative
According to the fifth paragraph,which of the following about bees’ genes is true?
A. Bees’genes allow them to expand their colonies.
Bees genes help keep them in their hives.
C. Bees genes make them by from flowers to flower.
D. Bees genes could explain the collapse of some colonies.
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 eomplexities that must have heen tens of 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 ale certainly different from the languages that most of us are familiar with,but they are no more primitive than Engish 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 language.
第 16 题 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 backwayd or not,has a language.
D. some races on earth can communicate without language.