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[填空题]How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words,
the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men,
unlike animals, somehow invented certain sound to express thought (1)
and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with
each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, calling letters, (2)
which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could
be written. Those sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we (3)
call words. The power of words, then, lies in their associations-the
things they take up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning (4)
for us by experience; and the better we live, the more certain words recall (5)
to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn,
the more the number of words t