大学英语(二)第三阶段参考答案.docxVIP

大学英语（二）第三阶段 一、阅读理解 1. How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the ori gin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike ani mals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thought and feelings, a ctions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and t hat later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to present those sounds, and which could be written down. Thos e sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we call words. The power of words, then, lies in their associations - the things they b ring