题型有: 3. LANGUAGE USAGE
PART III LANGUAGE USAGE
There are many ways in which the phenomena of language and culture are intimately related. All phenomena are unique to humans and have 【S1】______ therefore been the subject of a great deal of anthropological, sociological, and even memetic study. Language, of course, is determined by culture. For many people, language is not just the medium of culture but also the 【S2】______ part of culture. It is quite common for immigrants from a new country to 【S3】______ retain their old customs and to speak their first language amid fellow immigrants, even if all of present are comfortable in their new language. 【S4】______ This occurs because the immigrants are eager to preserve their own heritage, which includes not only customs and traditions but also language. This is also seen in many Jewish communities. Linguistic differences are also often seen as m
ark of another culture, 【S5】______ and they very commonly create divisiveness among neighboring peoples but 【S6】______ even among different groups of the same nation. A good example of this is in Canada, where French-speaking natives of Quebec clash with the English-speaking majority. This sort of conflict is also uncommon in the 【S7】______ areas with a great number of tribal warfare. It is even becoming an issue in 【S8】______ America as speakers of standard American English—mainly whites and educating minorities—observe the growing number of speakers of black 【S9】______ English vernacular. Debates are common over whether it is proper to use “ Ebonics” in schools, while their speakers continue to assert that the dialect 【S10】______ is a fundamental part of the “acceptlanguageblack culture”.