改错练习:专业八级的改错练习第6期

【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