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第 31 題
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Linguists believe that the languages of about one-third of the human race all developed from one Indo-European language. But who were the speakers of this ancient language? Linguistic detective work offers some clues. It is sometimes said that 31 . A study of some fifty ancient vocabularies has led to a reconstruction of the lifestyle of the first Indo-Europeans, a vanished people. From the words they used, it seems likely that 32 . They had horses, oxen, and sheep. They plowed, planted, worked leather, and wove wool. They worshipped gods who are clear ancestors of Indian, Mediterranean, and Celtic deities. However, exactly who the original Indo-Europeans were and 33 . According to an early theory, they lived in Mesopotamia, but 34 . Today, some argue for the Krugan culture of the Russian steppes, others for the farming culture of the Danube valley. The most widely accepted theory locates the Indo-Europeans in a cold, northern climate 35 . None of these prehistoric languages had a word for the sea. From this, and from our knowledge of nature, it is clear that the Indo-Europeans must have lived somewhere in northern central Europe.
Linguists believe that the languages of about one-third of the human race all developed from one Indo-European language. But who were the speakers of this ancient language? Linguistic detective work offers some clues. It is sometimes said that 31 . A study of some fifty ancient vocabularies has led to a reconstruction of the lifestyle of the first Indo-Europeans, a vanished people. From the words they used, it seems likely that 32 . They had horses, oxen, and sheep. They plowed, planted, worked leather, and wove wool. They worshipped gods who are clear ancestors of Indian, Mediterranean, and Celtic deities. However, exactly who the original Indo-Europeans were and 33 . According to an early theory, they lived in Mesopotamia, but 34 . Today, some argue for the Krugan culture of the Russian steppes, others for the farming culture of the Danube valley. The most widely accepted theory locates the Indo-Europeans in a cold, northern climate 35 . None of these prehistoric languages had a word for the sea. From this, and from our knowledge of nature, it is clear that the Indo-Europeans must have lived somewhere in northern central Europe.
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- A where common words for snow and wolf were important
- B this idea was exploded by nineteenth-century archaeology
- C they lived a half-settled, half-nomadic existence
- D when they lived remains a hotly debated mystery
- E you can deduce a people’s history from the words they use
思路引導 VIP
請你觀察空格前後的關鍵詞：前文提到了「偵探工作 (detective work)」，後文則具體列舉了「詞彙 (vocabularies)」與「重建生活方式 (reconstruction of lifestyle)」。如果這是一篇推理小說，哪一個概念最能解釋「偵探如何利用留下來的語言線索來還原真相」呢？
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恭喜你精準地選出了正確答案！這顯示你對文章的邏輯架構有著非常敏銳的觀察力。
語言作為歷史的化石
這道題目的核心在於「承上啟下」的邏輯銜接。文章開頭提到了「語言學的偵探工作」（linguistic detective work），而空格後方緊接著說明研究「字彙」（vocabularies）如何幫助我們「重建消失民族的生活方式」（reconstruction of the lifestyle）。選項 (E) 提到的「從人們使用的字眼推斷其歷史」，正好為這場偵探工作下了一個完美的定義，將「語言研究」與「歷史發現」這兩個概念緊密地縫合在一起。
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