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  3. Sign has become a scientific hot【C1】________ . Only in the past 20 years hav

Sign has become a scientific hot【C1】________ . Only in the past 20 years hav

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问题     Sign has become a scientific hot【C1】________ . Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed languages are unique—a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to【C2】________ how the brain generates and understands language, and【C3】________ new light on an old scientific【C4】________ : whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born with, or it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has【C5】________ in the pioneering work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people.
    When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school【C6】________  him in a course in signing. But Stokoe noticed something【C7】________ : among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher. Stokoe had been taught a sort of gesture code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. But Stokoe believed the “hand talk” his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people actually have a(n)【C8】________ language? And could that language be unlike any other on Earth? It was 1955, when even deaf people【C9】________ their signing as  "substandard" . Stokoe’s idea was academic heresy (异端邪说). It is 37 years later. Stokoe—now devoting his time to writing and editing books on ASL—is explaining how he started a【C10】________ . For decades educators fought his idea that signed languages are natural languages like English, French and Japanese.
    A. controversy      B. dig                C. dismissed      D. genuine
    E. probe            F. revolution         G. spot           H. roots
    I. throw            J. odd                K. real           L. considered
    M. button           N. origins            O. enrolled [br] 【C4】
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答案 A
解析 上下文题。根据词性，此处应当填入名词。根据冒号后的解释性内容“…whether language，complete with grammar， is something that we are born with，or it is a learned behavior．”可见这是具有争议的观点，故选controversy“有争议的”。
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