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英语泛读教程第三版3(主编刘乃银)Cloze 5
Who hasn't wanted to master not just two languages but 10? Take Giuseppe Mezzofanti, a 19th-century priest who was said to be 1 in as many as 50 languages. Native speakers came from all over the world to test his2 , and many left astonished.
In Babel No More, Michael Erard investigates the legend of Mezzofanti and3 linguistic prodigies. Early on Erard asks what it4 to really know a language. Claire Kramsch, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley, tells him the question should not be "How many languages do you know?" but rather "In how many languages do you live?" Understanding the cultural nuances of a 5 requires extensive ongoing 6 with its speakers, and for that7 Kramsch doubts that anyone could ever live in more than four or five languages.
Fair enough, but what about astonishing feats of memory and computation that people display when they 8 up a new language, or eight? Erard 9 out that, for no good reason, this question has been neglected by science. After all, we study extraordinary 10 in mathematics and music; why not linguistic geniuses? 1. Fluent
2. abilities/ability/competence/proficiency/aptitude 3. other 4. means
5. Language 6. Contac 7. reason 8. pick 9. point
10. aptitude/competence
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