填空题

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.