2018年英语专业八级真题听力minilecture原题,答案以与原文

2018 年英语专业八级真题听力 Language and Humanity 语言和人类

Good morning, everyone. 大家早上好。

Mini-lecture

原文 (1)

In today's lecture, we're going to discuss the relationship between language and humanity. As we all know, language is very powerful.

在今天的课上，我们将讨论语言和人类之间的关系。众所周知，语言是非常强大的。 It allows you to put a thought from your mind directly in someone else's mind. 它可以让你把你的想法直接放在别人的大脑里。

Languages are like genes talking, getting things they want. 语言就像会说话的基因，得到他们想要的东西。

And you just imagine the sense of wonder in a baby when it first discovers that,

merely by uttering a sound, it can get objects to move across a room as if by magic, and maybe even into its mouth.

你可以想象， 当一个婴儿第一次发现， 仅仅通过发出一个声音， 它就能让物体像中了魔法一样在房间里移动，甚至可能进入它的嘴里。

Now we need to explain how and why this remarkable trait, you know, human's ability to do things with language, has evolved, and why did this trait evolve only in our species?

现在我们需要解释这个显著的特征， 也就是人类用语言做事的能力，进化，为什么这个特征只在我们人类身上进化？

是如何进化的， 为什么

In order to get an answer to the question, we have to go to tool use in the chimpanzees.

为了得到这个问题的答案，我们必须研究黑猩猩的工具使用。

Chimpanzees can use tools, and we take that phenomenon as a sign of their intelligence.

黑猩猩可以使用工具，我们把这种现象作为它们智力的标志。

But if they really were intelligent, why would they crack open nuts with a rock? 但如果他们真的聪明，他们为什么要用石头砸开坚果呢？

Why wouldn't they just go to a shop and buy a bag of nuts that somebody else had already cracked open for them?

他们为什么不去商店买一袋别人已经打开的坚果呢？

Why not? I mean, that's what we do.

为什么不呢？我是说，我们就是这么做的。

Language and Humanity

Good morning, everyone.

In today's lecture, we're going to discuss the relationship between language and humanity. As we all know, language is very powerful. Languages are like genes talking, getting things they want. merely by uttering

a sound, it

It allows you to put a thought from your mind directly in someone else's mind.

And you just imagine the sense of wonder in a baby when it first discovers that, and maybe even into its mouth. Now we need to explain species?

Chimpanzees can

can get objects to move across a room as if

by magic,

how and why this remarkable trait,

you know, human's ability

to do things with language, has evolved, and why did this trait evolve only in our

In order to get an answer to the

use tools,

question, we have to go to tool use in the chimpanzees.

phenomenon as a sign

and we take that of

their

intelligence.

But if they really were intelligent, why would they crack open nuts with a rock? already cracked open for them? Why not? I mean, that's what we do. Language and Humanity

Language is powerful and it can help us do or get things as we wish. Language as a born trait

Language has evolved only in (1)_______.

Comparison between chimpanzees and human beings: -

Chimpanzees

Why wouldn't they just go to a shop and buy a bag of nuts that somebody else had

- use of tools : once seen as a sign of (2)_______

- - - - -

inability to (3) _______ tendency to (4) _______ Human beings

able to improve and build on (5) _______ able to (6) _______ideas

Language and social learning

Problem of social learning : (7) _______

-Causes :

- stealing others -Solution:

-(9) _______developed to share ideas

’ ideas by (8) _______

Results

-(10) _______made available to every individual

-language as social technology to enhance (11) _______

Language and the modern world

Existence of many different languages has led to - - - -

Separation of cooperative groups (12) _______ Knowledge protection

Slow flow of ideas and tendency toward (13) _______

Globalization needs (14) _______. (15) _______hinder cooperation. Solution : one world with one language

答案

1. Human beings 、 our species 2. Their Intelligence 3. Learn from others 4. Repeat

5. Other people ’s wisdom 6. Accumulate

7. Evolutionary dilemmas

8. Watching other people 9. Systems of communication

10. Knowledge and wisdom / accumulated knowledge 11. cooperation / benefits of cooperation 12. Establishment of identities 13. Isolation、 keeping to ourselves 14. Communication 15. Different languages 16.