| 任务型阅读。 根据短文内容，从下框的A-F选项中选出能概括每一段的主题最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。 |
| 1.______ Culture consists of all shaped products of human society. This means not only such materials things as cities, organizations and schools, but also non-material things such as ideas, customs, family patterns, and languages. Putting it simply, culture refers to the entire way of life of a society, "the ways of people". 2.______ Language is a part of culture and plays a very important role in it. Some social scientists consider it the keystone of culture. Without language, the maintaining of culture would not be possible. On the other hand, language is shaped and influenced by culture. In broadest scene, language is the symbolic representation of a people and it comprises their historical and cultural backgrounds as well as their approach to life and their ways of living and thinking. 3.______ We should not go further into the relationship between language and culture. What we need to be stressed is that the two interact, and that understanding of one requires understanding of the other. Language carries culture and culture gives language characteristics. There is no language living without culture or culture without language. 4.______ Social scientists tell us that cultures differ from one another, that is to say, each culture is unique. As cultures are diverse, languages are diverse. It is only natural that with differences in cultures and differences in languages, difficulties often arise in communicating between cultures and across cultures. Thus understanding is not always easy. 5.______ Learning a foreign language well means more than merely mastering the pronunciation, grammar, words and idioms. It also means learning to see the world as speakers of that language see it. Learning the ways in which their language reflects the ideas, customs and behaviors of their society, learning to understand "their language of the mind." Learning a language, in fact, is inseparatable from learning its culture. |
| A. Understanding is not always easy due to diversity of both culture and language. B. Learn its culture when learning the language. C. The close relationship between language and culture. D. What is culture? E. Culture and language are interactive and unseparated. F. The important role that language plays in culture. |