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2010
年真题
So
far
as
we
can
tell,
all
human
languages
are
equally
complete
and
perfect
as
instruments
of
communication:
that
is,
every
language
appears
to
be
well
1
equipped
as
any
other
to
say
the
things
their
speakers
want
to
say.
2
There
may
or
may
not
be
appropriate
to
talk
about
primitive
peoples
or
3
cultures,
but
that
is
another
matter.
Certainly,
not
all
groups
of
people
are
equally
competent
in
nuclear
physics
or
psychology
or
the
cultivation
of
rice
or
the
engraving
of
Benares
brass.
Whereas
this
is
not
the
fault
of
their
language.
4
The
Eskimos
can
speak
about
snow
with
a
great
deal
further
precision
and
5
subtlety
than
we
can
in
English,
but
this
is
not
because
the
Eskimo
language
(one
of
those
sometimes
miscalled
'primitive')
is
inherently
more
precise
and
subtle
than
English.
This
example
does
not
come
to
light
a
defect
in
English,
6
a
show
of
unexpected
'primitiveness'.
The
position
is
simply
and
obviously
that
the
Eskimos
and
the
English
live
in
similar
environments.
The
English
7
language
will
be
just
as
rich
in
terms
for
different
kinds
of
snow,
8
presumably,
if
the
environments
in
which
English
was
habitually
used
made
such
distinction
as
important.
9
Similarly,
we
have
no
reason
to
doubt
that
the
Eskimo
language
could
be
as
precise
and
subtle
on
the
subject
of
motor
manufacture
or
cricket
if
these
topics
formed
the
part
of
the
Eskimos'
life.
For
obvious
historical
reasons,
10
Englishmen
in
the
nineteenth
century
could
not
talk
about
motorcars
with
the
minute
discrimination
which
is
possible
today:
cars
were
not
a
part
of
their
culture.
But
they
had
a
host
of
terms
for
horse-drawn
vehicles
which
send
us,
puzzled,
to
a
historical
dictionary
when
we
are
reading
Scott
or
Dickens.
How
many
of
us
could
distinguish
between
a
chaise,
a
landau,
a
victoria,
a
brougham,
a
coupe,
a
gig,
a
diligence,
a
whisky,
a
calash,
a
tilbury,
a
carriole,
a
phaeton,
and
a
clarence
?
2009
年真题
The previous
section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes
from one school
child to the next and illustrates the further
difference (1)_____
between school lore and nursery lore.
In nursery lore a verse, learnt
in early
childhood, is not usually passed on again when the
little listener (2)__
has grown up, and has
children of their own, or even grandchildren.
(3)_____
The
period between learning a nursery rhyme and
transmitting
It may be something from twenty to
seventy years. With the playground (4)_____
lore,
therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on
whtin the very hour (5)_____
it is learnt; and in the
general, it passes between children of the
(6)_____
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