問題詳情
請依下文回答第 37 題至第 40 題People evolve a language in order to describe and thus control their circumstances, or in order not to be submergedby a reality that they cannot articulate. A Frenchman living in Paris speaks a subtly and crucially different language fromthat of the man living in Marseilles; 37 sounds very much like a man living in Quebec; and they would all havegreat difficulty in apprehending what the man from Guadeloupe, or Martinique, is saying, 38 the man fromSenegal—although the “common” language of all these areas is French. But each has paid, and is paying, a different pricefor this “common” language, in which, as it turns out, they are not saying, and cannot be saying, the same things: theyeach have very different realities to articulate or control.What joins all languages and all men is the necessity to confront life, in order, not inconceivably, to outwit death: theprice for this is the acceptance and achievement of one’s temporal identity. So that, for example, though it is not taught inthe schools, the south of France still clings to its ancient and musical Provencal, which resists being described as a“dialect.” And much of the 39 in the Basque countries, and in Wales, is due to the Basque and Welshdetermination not to allow their languages to be destroyed. This determination also 40 the flames in Irelandfor among the many indignities the Irish have been forced to undergo at English hands is the English contempt for theirlanguage.
【題組】37
(A) each
(B) either
(C) one
(D) neither
參考答案
答案：D
難度：困難0.222222
統計：A(1),B(5),C(5),D(4),E(0)