We use language primarily as a means of communication with other human beings. Each of us shares with the community inwhich we ive a store of words and meanings as well as agreeingconventions as __1__ to the way in which words should bearranged to convey a particular __2__ message: the Englishspeaker has in his disposal a vocabulary and a __3__ set ofgrammatical rules which enables him to communicate his __4__thoughts and feelings, in a variety of styles, to the other English __5__ speakers. His vocabulary,in particular, both that which he uses activetly and that which he recognises, increases in size as hegrows old as a result of education and experience. __6__ But, whether the language store isrelatively small or large, the system remains no more than a psychological reality for tike inpidual,unless he has a means of expressing it in terms able to be seen by another __7__ member of hislinguistic community; he has to give the system a concrete transmission form. We take it forgranted two most __8__ common forms of transmission-by means of sounds produced by ourvocal organs (speech) or by visual signs (writing). And these are __9__ among most striking ofhuman achievements. __10__
參考答案及解析:
1. agreeing --------agreed
2. ∧words----------these/those words
3. in the disposal --------at the disposal
4. enables--------enable
5. delete “the” before “other English speakers”
6. old------ older
7. seen ------ perceived, understood, comprehended
8. delete “it” before “for granted”
9. And ----- Yet; However
10. ∧most ------ the most striking