eriously mis­leading when applied to grammar. As Whorf pointed 50 years ago, it is naive anddangerous to take isolated grammatical phenomena and try to relate them to features of a culture. When lin­guists recognized this, their response was to avoid the language/culture issue altogether, thus closing the door on an important area of research. That there is a relationship between a code and the culture that engenders (造成) it is beyond question; but it is an extremely complex and abstract one.            

 

36. The first paragraph mainly discusses _____.

 

[A] the early history of human language     

 

[B] how important words are in the cultural issue

 

[C] the way in which people name different things

 

[D] the relation between language and culture on the lexical level

 

37. According to the anthropologists, the importance of a meaning _____.

 

[A] reflect the customs

 

[B] is reflected by the number of words referring to it

 

[C] is connected with next generation

 

[D] reflect certain cultures

 

38. The author cites the only Chinese word for rice to show that _____.

 

[A] the Chinese people especially enjoy rice

 

[B] the Chinese people have a different viewpoint

 

[C] important foods are not always named by many words

 

[D] something culturally important may not be important in language

 

39. From the Arabic words for ‘camel’ and the Eskimo words for ‘snow’, we can infer that _____.