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Directions: Read the following passage. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square bracket on the ANSWER SHEET. eAS~>
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People thinking about the origin of language for the first time usually arrive at the conclusion that it developed gradually as a system of grunts, hisses and cries and (21)____ a very simple affair in the beginning. (22)______ when we observe the language behavior of (23)____ we regard as primitive cultures, we find it (24)_____ complicates. It was believes that an Eskimo must have at the tip of his tongue a vocabulary of more than 10,000 words (25)___ to get along reasonably well, much larger than the active vocabulary of an average businessman who speaks English. (26)______, These Eskimo words are far more highly inflected than (27)_____ of any of the well-known European languages, for a (28)___ noun can be spoken or written in (29)______ hundred different forms, each (30)___ a precise meaning different from that of any other. The forms of the verbs are even more (31)_____. The Eskimo language is, therefore, one of the most difficult in the world to learn, (32)______ the result that almost no traders or explorers have (33)___ tried to learn it. Consequently, there has grown up, in communication between Eskimos and whites, a jargon (34)___ to the pidgin English used in Old China, with a vocabulary of from 300 to 600 uninflected words. Most of them are derived from Eskimo but some are derived from English, Danish, Spanish, Hawaiian and other languages. It is this jargon that is usually (35)_____by travelers as the Eskimo language. 21. A. must be B. must have been C. ought to be D. should be 5mdn77F_
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Section II Grammar and Vocabulary 10% (15 minutes)
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