問題詳情
IV.Discourse Structure: Choose the best answer from the box below for each blank in thepassage.Questions 31-35 Linguists believe that the languages of about one-third of the human race all developed from oneIndo-European language. But who were the speakers of this ancient language? Linguistic detectivework offers some clues. It is sometimes said that 31 . A study of some fifty ancient vocabularies hasled to a reconstruction of the lifestyle of the first Indo-Europeans, a vanished people. From the wordsthey used, it seems likely that 32 . They had horses, oxen, and sheep. They plowed, planted, workedleather, and wove wool. They worshipped gods who are clear ancestors of Indian, Mediterranean, andCeltic deities. However, exactly who the original Indo-Europeans were and 33 . According to anearly theory, they lived in Mesopotamia, but 34 . Today, some argue for the Krugan culture of theRussian steppes, others for the farming culture of the Danube valley. The most widely accepted theorylocates the Indo-Europeans in a cold, northern climate 35 . None of these prehistoric languages hada word for the sea. From this, and from our knowledge of nature, it is clear that the Indo-Europeansmust have lived somewhere in northern central Europe.
(A) where common words for snow and wolf were important
(B) this idea was exploded by nineteenth-century archaeology
(C) they lived a half-settled, half-nomadic existence
(D) when they lived remains a hotly debated mystery
(E) you can deduce a people’s history from the words they use
【題組】31
參考答案
答案：E
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)