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2019 年 6 月英语四级阅读理解 100 篇精析（ 91 ） Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in thepast 20 years have specialists in language studyrealized that signed languages are unique —a speechof the hand. They offer a new way to probe how thebrain generates and understands language, andthrow new light on an old scientific controversy ：whether language,complete with grammar, issomething that we are born With, or whether it is alearned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of onerebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C., the world ’s only lib