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 equipped as any other to say the   (1)______  
things their speakers want to say.                                     (2)______       
There may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive       (3)______ 
peoples or 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. Whereas this is not the       (4)______  
fault of their language. The Eskimos, it is said, can speak about  
snow with further more precision and subtlety than we can in           (5)______  
English, but this is not because the Eskimo language (one of those  
sometimes mis-called 'primitive') is inherently more precise and 
subtle than English. This example does not come to light a defect      (6)______ 
in English, a show of unexpected 'primitiveness'. The position is 
simply and obviously that the Eskimos and the English live in similar  (7)______  
environments. The English language will be just as rich in terms       (8)______  
for different kinds of snow if the environments in which English 
was habitually used made such distinctions 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          (10)______  
Eskimos' llife.

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单项选择题According to the interview, religious diversity（）

A．was most evident between 1990 and 2000.
B．exists among Muslim immigrants.
C．is restricted to certain places in the US.
D．is spreading to more parts of the country.

单项选择题According to the passage, most Icelanders view land as something of（）

A．environmental value.
B．commercial value.
C．potential value for tourism.
D．great value for livelihood.

问答题Recently newspapers have reported that officials in a little-known mountainous area near Guiyang, Guizhou Province wanted to turn the area into a “central business district” for Guiyang and invited a foreign design company to give it a n entirely new look. The design company came up with a blueprint for unconventional, super-futuristic buildings. Tis triggered off different responses. Some appreciated the bold innovation of the design, but others held that it failed to reflect regional characteristics or local cultural heritage. What is your view on this Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. In the first part of your writing you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your essay on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

单项选择题During the interview Dr Johnson indicates that（）

A．greater racial diversity exists among younger populations.
B．both older and younger populations are racially diverse.
C．age diversity could lead to pension problems.
D．older populations are more racially diverse.

问答题I thought that it was a Sunday morning in May; that it was Easter Sunday, and as yet very early in the morning. I was standing at the door of my own cottage. Right before me lay the very scene which could really be commanded from that situation, but exalted, as was usual, and solemnized by the power of dreams. There were the same mountains, and the same lovely valley at their feet; but the mountains were raised to more than Alpine height, and there was interspace far larger between them of meadows and forest lawns; the hedges were rich with white roses; and no living creature was to be seen except that in the green churchyard there were cattle tranquilly reposing upon the graves, and particularly round about the grave of a child whom I had once tenderly loved, just as I had really seen them, a little before sunrise in the same summer, when that child died.