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B. Read the text below and fill in each of the blanks with ONE suitable word. (4 points)
Finding the Right Word
A recent study has suggested an answer to a question that has occupied philosophers for centuries: Do people need words in (1) _______ to think? A tribe living in the Amazon basin could provide the answer. The Piraha tribe may be small – there are only about 200 members all told – (2) _______ they exhibit a fascinating cultural peculiarity. These people have no words for numbers, apart from “one”, “two” and “many”. What is more, (3) _______ words for “one” and “two” are very similar. As far as anyone can tell, this tribe has never had any sort of vocabulary for numbers, but (4) _______ appear to survive quite well without it.
It was soon realised that these people might supply an insight (5) _______ the way our minds work. Studies have shown that adult members of the tribe are no (6) _______ at counting than a baby is at speaking. (7) _______ they were shown a row of objects and asked to duplicate the number they saw, they could not get beyond two or three before starting to make mistakes. This applies even to adults who appear reasonably intelligent in (8) _______ other way.
So it looks (9) _______ though the Piraha are not very good at counting simply because they do not have a vocabulary for numbers. This would suggest that human beings in general cannot think if they have no words to do (10) _______.
Finding the Right Word
A recent study has suggested an answer to a question that has occupied philosophers for centuries: Do people need words in (1) _______ to think? A tribe living in the Amazon basin could provide the answer. The Piraha tribe may be small – there are only about 200 members all told – (2) _______ they exhibit a fascinating cultural peculiarity. These people have no words for numbers, apart from “one”, “two” and “many”. What is more, (3) _______ words for “one” and “two” are very similar. As far as anyone can tell, this tribe has never had any sort of vocabulary for numbers, but (4) _______ appear to survive quite well without it.
It was soon realised that these people might supply an insight (5) _______ the way our minds work. Studies have shown that adult members of the tribe are no (6) _______ at counting than a baby is at speaking. (7) _______ they were shown a row of objects and asked to duplicate the number they saw, they could not get beyond two or three before starting to make mistakes. This applies even to adults who appear reasonably intelligent in (8) _______ other way.
So it looks (9) _______ though the Piraha are not very good at counting simply because they do not have a vocabulary for numbers. This would suggest that human beings in general cannot think if they have no words to do (10) _______.
