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Passage 5

Most people, asked if they can think without speech, would probably answer, “Yes，but it is not easy for me to do so. Still I know it can be done. n Language is but a garment! But what if language is not so much a garment as a prepared road or groove? It is, indeed, in the highest degree likely that language is an instrument originally put to uses lower than conceptual plane and that thought arises as a refined interpretation of its content. The product grows，in other words, with the instrument and the thought may be no more conceivable, in its genesis and daily practice, without speech than is mathematical reasoning practicable without the lever of an appropriate mathematically symbolism. No one believes that even the most difficult mathematical proposition is inherently dependent on an arbitrary set of symbols, but it is impossible to suppose that the human mind is capable of arriving at or holding such a proposition without the symbolism.

The writer, for one, is strongly of the opinion that the feeling entertained by so many that they can think, or even reason, without language is an illusion. The illusion seems to be due to a number of factors. The simplest of these is the failure to distinguish between imagery and thought. As a matter of fact, no sooner do we try to put an image into conscious relation with another than we find ourselves slipping into a silent flow of words. Thought may be a natural domain apart from the artificial one of speech, but speech would seem to the only road we know of that leads to it.

21. In the first line, the underlined phrase can best be replaced by .

A. most of the people B. more people

C. more than one people D. many people

22. In Line 3，the word “groove” is probably closest in meaning to .

A. later growth B. designated slot

C. particular path D. ready-made viaduct

23. Which of the following statements would the author of the passage agree?

A. Thought came into being earlier than language.

B. It is language that makes conceptual thought possible.

C. Thought is no different from mathematics because it depends on symbolism.

D. Both thought and language are the interpretation of propositions.

24. Which of the following statements is true according to the author?

A. The imagery is the precondition of thought.

B. Thought has to be bom in words.

C. Imagery is an explanation of words.

D. Once we use words, we make mistakes.

25. The idea of this passage is held by ?

A. some people including the writer B. the writer himself alone

C. most people but the writer D. one of the people other than the writer

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