hce_cmu
105年
英文
第 35 題
📖 題組：
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.
(35)
- 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
如果我們知道一群人的語言中有很多關於「冰雪」和「森林野獸」的詞彙，卻完全找不到關於「棕櫚樹」或「駱駝」的說法，你覺得這反映了他們居住環境的哪些氣候特徵呢？請試著結合空格前方的「cold, northern climate」來思考。
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
語言與環境的邏輯連結
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到文意的脈絡並選出 (A)，顯示你對文章段落的連貫性有著敏銳的直覺。這題的核心在於「語言考古學」的應用：文章前面提到我們可以從族群使用的字彙推測其歷史，而第 35 格前方明確指出了「寒冷的北方氣候」（cold, northern climate），選項 (A) 提到的 snow（雪） 與 wolf（狼） 正好是這類環境中最具代表性的特徵，完美呼應了文中「透過語彙重構生活樣貌」的論點。
語意銜接的鑑別點
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