【练习】
We use language every day. We live in a world of words. Hardly any moment passes with someone talking, writing or reading. Indeed, __1
languages is most essential to mankind. Our lives increasingly depend on fast and successful use of language. Strangely enough, we know __2
more about things around us than on ourselves. For example, language __3
is species specific, that is, it is language that differs human from __4
animals. However, we do not know yet how exactly we inquire language __5
and how it is possible for us to perceive through language; nor we __6
understand precisely the combinations between language and thought, __7
language and logic, or language and culture; still less, how and when language started. One reason for this inadequate knowledge of language is that we, like language users, take too many things for granted. __8
Language comes to every normal person so naturally that a few __9
of us stop to question what language is, much less do we feel the necessity to study it. Language is far more complex than most people have probably imagined and the necessity to study it is far greater than some people may have assured. Linguistic is a branch of science which takes language as its object of investigation.__10
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