Unit 3
可做選詞填空題如下：
1. You might argue that these sentences are somewhat unnatural.
2. Certainly, users of the standard forms of English in the United Kingdom generally understand their equivalents in the United States.
3. A second common misconception about language is that words have fixed and clear meanings.
4. We expect to learn it as we learned geometry or how to ride a bicycle------- systematically, and with clear ultimate success.
可做單項選擇的如下：
1. Part of the pleasure and genius of language may well arise out of this slight “misuse” of words.
2. They have in fact embarked on an activity that could last the rest of their lives.
3. There are several men missing in that chess set.
4. The boat was manned entirely by women and children.
可做翻譯的如下：
1. 語言學習是一段無盡的航程。Language is an endless journey.
2. 當今世界人們使用的語言數以千萬計，每一種都錯綜復雜。Nowadays thousands of languages are used in the world, each one is very complex.
3. When we talk about learning a language like English, Japanese or Spanish, we speak and think as though the language in question were a fixed unchanging thing. 當我們談論諸如英語,日語或西班牙語的時候,我們說話或思考問題似乎所談論的語言是固定不變的.
4. Dialect-users in these countries, however, have serious problems understanding each other, to the extent that they may wonder if they are actually using the same language. 然而這些國家使用方言的人彼此之間的理解有很大的障礙,以至于達到這樣一個程度:他們可能會驚奇于他們是否確實在使用著同一種語言.
