Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. They cont

Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. (76) They contain the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating within their respective culture. To learn a foreign language is to learn 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 language are as necessary 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 would be starting with the non-language elements of the language: its gestures, its body language, etc. Eye contact is extremely important in English. Direct eye contact leads to understanding, or, as the English saying goes, 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.

The best title for this passage is ______.

A．Organs of Culture

B．Brain and Body

C．Looking into His Eyes

D．Language and Culture

Passage 1

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. (76) They contain the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating within their respective culture. To learn a foreign language is to learn 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 language are as necessary 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 would be starting with the non-language elements of the language: its gestures, its body language, etc. Eye contact is extremely important in English. Direct eye contact leads to understanding, or, as the English saying goes, 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.

1. The best title for this passage is

A. Organs of Culture B. Brain and Body

C. Looking into his eyes D. Language and Culture

The author's overall point is that ______.

A．primitive languages may be large, complex, and complicated

B．primitive languages may be large, complex and logical

C．primitive languages may be large, old, and logical

D．primitive languages may be similar to pidgin English

The author's overall point is that ______.

A．primitive languages may be large, complex, and complicated

B．primitive languages may be large, complex and logical

C．primitive languages may be large, old, and logical

D．primitive languages may be similar to pidgin English

The article states that the languages of most uncivilized peoples are ______.

A．extremely complex

B．most severely standardized

C．backward

D．understandable

The author has used American Indian languages as an example to show that they are .

A．just as old as some well-known languages

B．just as sophisticated as some well-known languages

C．more developed than some well known languages

D．more complex than some well-known languages

The author has used American Indian languages as an example to show that they are______.

A．just as old as some well-known languages

B．just as sophisticated as some well-known languages

C．more developed than some well-known languages

D．more complex than some well-known languages

A.just as old as some well-known languages

B.just as sophisticated as some well-known languages

C.more developed than some well-known languages

D.more complex than some well-known languages

A.just as old as some well-known languages

B.just as sophisticated as some well-known languages

C.more developed than some well-known languages

D.more complex than some well-known languages