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1、2018年英语专业八级真题听力Mini-lecture原文(1)LanguageandHumanity语言和人类Goodmorning,everyone.大家早上好。Intoday'slecture,we'regoingtodiscusstherelationshipbetweenlanguageandhumanity.Asweallknow,languageisverypowerful.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。Itallowsyoutoputathoughtfromyourminddir
2、ectlyinsomeoneelse'smind.它可以让你把你的想法直接放在别人的大脑里。Languagesarelikegenestalking,gettingthingstheywant.语言就像会说话的基因，得到他们想要的东西。Andyoujustimaginethesenseofwonderinababywhenitfirstdiscoversthat,merelybyutteringasound,itcangetobjectstomoveacrossaroomasifbymagic,andmaybeevenintoitsmou
3、th.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。Nowweneedtoexplainhowandwhythisremarkabletrait,youknow,human'sabilitytodothingswithlanguage,hasevolved,andwhydidthistraitevolveonlyinourspecies?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，是如何进化的，为什么进化，为什么这个特征只在我们人类身上进化？Inord
4、ertogetananswertothequestion,wehavetogototooluseinthechimpanzees.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。Chimpanzeescanusetools,andwetakethatphenomenonasasignoftheirintelligence.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。Butiftheyreallywereintelligent,whywouldtheycrackopennutswitharock?但如果他们真的聪明，他们为什
5、么要用石头砸开坚果呢？Whywouldn'ttheyjustgotoashopandbuyabagofnutsthatsomebodyelsehadalreadycrackedopenforthem?他们为什么不去商店买一袋别人已经打开的坚果呢？Whynot?Imean,that'swhatwedo.为什么不呢？我是说，我们就是这么做的。LanguageandHumanityGoodmorning,everyone.Intoday'slecture,we'regoingtodiscusstherelationshipbetweenlang
6、uageandhumanity.Asweallknow,languageisverypowerful.Itallowsyoutoputathoughtfromyourminddirectlyinsomeoneelse'smind.Languagesarelikegenestalking,gettingthingstheywant.Andyoujustimaginethesenseofwonderinababywhenitfirstdiscoversthat,merelybyutteringasound,itcangetobjectstom
7、oveacrossaroomasifbymagic,andmaybeevenintoitsmouth.Nowweneedtoexplainhowandwhythisremarkabletrait,youknow,human'sabilitytodothingswithlanguage,hasevolved,andwhydidthistraitevolveonlyinourspecies?Inordertogetananswertothequestion,wehavetogototooluseinthechimpanzees.Chimpan
8、zeescanusetools,andwetakethatphenomenonasasignoftheirintelligence.Butiftheyreallywereintelligent
