英语作业（三）Passage TwoLanguages are marvelously complex and wond

英语作业（三）
Passage Two
Languages are marvelously complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture:they embody the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating within their respective culture.To learn a foreign language is to lean another culture.In the words of a poet and philosopher.“As many languages as one speaks,so many lives one lives.” A culture and its languages are as inseparable as brain and body; while one is a part of the other,neither can function without the other.In learning a foreign language,the best beginning is with the non-verbal linguistic elements of the language,its gestures,its body language.Eye contact is extremely important in English.Direct eye contact leads to understanding,or,as the English maxim( 格言) has it,seeing eye-to-eye.We can never see eye-to-eye with a native speaker of English until we have learned to look directly into his eyes.
26.The best title for this passage is _____.
A.Organs of Culture
B.Brain and Body
C.Seeing Eye-to-Eye
D.Non-Verbal Linguistic Elements
27.According to this passage,the best way to learn a foreign language is _____.
A.to read the words of poets and philosophers
B.to find a native speaker and look directly into his eyes
C.to begin by learning its body language
D.to visit a country where English is spoken
28.According to this passage,gestures are _____.
A.non-verbal as well as non-linguistic
B.verbal and linguistic
C.non-verbal but nevertheless linguistic
D.verbal but nevertheless non-linguistic
29.“As many language as one speaks,so many lives one lives” means _____.
A.“If one learns many foreign languages,one will have a better understanding of his own language.”
B.“Life is richer and more interesting if one knows several languages.”
C.“No matter how many languages one knows,one can never know more than one’s own culture.”
D.“If a person speaks only one language,he will live a very happy life.”
30.One of the following which is not synonymous with the others is _____.
A.signs B.gestures C.idioms D.body language

26.A
27.C
28.C
29.B