2014_2018高考英语试题分项版解析专题15社会生活说理议论类含解析5.docVIP

PAGE 专题15 社会生活、说理议论类 2018年高考题 C【2018·全国I】 Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going. When the the world was still populated by hunter-gatherers,small, tightly knit (联系)groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other.Some language experts believe that 10,000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 12,000 languages between them. Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more