Part V Cloze (15 minutes)
Language is the most astonishing behavior in the animal kingdom. It is the species-typical behavior that sets humans completely __67__ from all other animals. Language is a means of communication,__68__it is much more than that. Many animals can __69__. The dance of the honeybee communicates the location of flowers __70__other members of the hive(蜂群). But human language permits communication about anything.__71__things like unicorn(独角兽)that have never existed. The key__72__in the fact that the units of meaning, words, can be __73__together in different ways, according to__74__, to communicate different meanings.
Language is the most important learning we do. Nothing __75__humans so much as our ability to communicate abstract thoughts, __76__about the university the mind, love, dreams, or ordering a drink, It is an immensely complex__77__that we take for granted. Indeed, we are not aware of most __78__of our speech and understanding. Consider what happens when one person is speaking to __79__.The Speaker has to translate thoughts into __80__ language. Brain imaging studies suggest that the time from thoughts to the __81__ of speech is extremely fast. Only 0.04 seconds! The listener must hear the sounds to __82__ out what the speaker means. He must use the sounds of speech to __83__ the words spoken., understand the pattern of __84__ of the words (sentences), and finally __85__ the meaning. This takes somewhat longer, a minimum of about 0.5 seconds. But __86__ started, it is of course a continuous process.
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