Our Greatest
Possession Man is called in Greek the Zoon phonanta which
means the(1) ______. What (1)
______ makes humanity different from the rest of the animal world is its
capacity for(2) ______ (2) ______ a system of sound signals. Human beings
tend to use speech not for conveying messages or expressing feelings but
merely for establishing and sustaining(3) ______
(3) ______ The(4) ______of language is
essentially a part of the modernization of language. (4)
______ Modern English is grammatically much simpler than its ancestor
Anglo-Saxon, and Italian and Spanish are much simpler than their mother(5)
______
(5) ______ All of us
say things we never said before, and without much(6) ______effort; we
(6) ______ are always inventing new things to say. That is file
great human talent, which is based on a very simple peculiarity of the human
brain--its capacity to think in(7) ______. Man (7) ______ is
able to separate specific sounds and oppose one to another.
Although we are quite(8) ______of the origins of human language, we know
that (8) ______ when language first appeared, it
was already fully(9) ______. The system of symbols (9)
______ of the outside world was the(10) ______to the creation of inside
worlds. Language is (10) _____ our greatest
possession. Please move on to Section B Interview.