In the following passage, there are 20 blanks representing the words that are missing from the context. You are to put back in each of the blanks the missing worD.The time for this section is 20 minutes.
Many things about language are a mystery, and many will always remain so. But some things we do know.
First, we know that all human beings have a language of some sort.(1) is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has (2) language, no set of speech sounds by which the people communicate with one(3) . Furthermore, in historical times, there has never been a race of men (4) a language.
Second, there is no such thing as a primitive language. There are many people (5) cultures are underdeveloped, who are, as we say, uncivilized, but the (6) they speak are not primitive. In all known languages we can see complexities (7) must have been tens of thousands of years in development.
This has not (8) been well understood; indeed, the di
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