1.Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. 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.(20分)
(1)The best title for this passage is Language and Culture.(4分)
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(2)According to this passage, the only way to learn a foreign language is to begin by learning its body language.(4分)
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(3)According to this passage, gestures are pictures in a language.(4分)
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(4)To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture.(4分)
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(5)Direct eye contact leads to understanding in all cultures.(4分)
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