雅思阅读真题（Part 3）
Part 3 · 考频：中频 · 最近考试：2025.4.24北京理工大学
The Pirahã language has stirred up debate among experts
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答案：the initial difficulty of linguistic research
原文定位：Indeed, he was uncertain for so long about what he was actually hearing while living among the Pirahã that he waited nearly three decades before publishing his findings
答案：the key to human communication
原文定位：human language is unique, if only for the reason that it enables humans to piece together never-before-constructed thoughts, and be infinitely imaginative
答案：the unique characteristics of a language
原文定位：the Pirahã language departs from what some academics have long maintained are essential and malleable features of all human languages. Most of all, it may be unique for not employing subordinate clauses;Equally perplexing, the Pirahã appear not to use numbers
答案：a controversial claim about the influence of language
原文定位：Everett's findings among the Pirahã have brought new life to a controversial theory by the linguist Benjamin Whorf, who suggested that people are only capable of constructing thoughts for which they possess actual words;This idea, known as linguistic determinism, was largely abandoned by the 1970s, but the Pirahã have put it back on the table
答案：a comparison with another language group
原文定位：The Waripiri language - spoken by a group of Australian Aborigines - like that of the Pirahã, features only the most rudimentary system of counting. However, the Waripiri people had no difficulty counting further than three in a foreign language;but when Everett attempted to teach the Pirahã how to count in Portuguese... not one of them managed to learn
答案：challenging a universal theory of language
原文定位：One of the most prominent critics is the linguist Noam Chomsky, who proposes that all human languages share a "universal grammar" - a basic, innate set of grammatical rules hardwired into the human brain. From this perspective, the Pirahã language cannot be an exception. Critics suggest that the Pirahã's inability to learn to count is a cultural choice, not a cognitive limitation imposed by their language
答案：NO
原文定位：Indeed, he was uncertain for so long about what he was actually hearing while living among the Pirahã that he waited nearly three decades before publishing his findings
答案：NO
原文定位：Most of all, it may be unique for not employing subordinate clauses
答案：NO
原文定位：Even after eight months of one-on-one tutoring, the Pirahã could not consistently get the answers right for simple sums they had successfully completed just the day before
答案：YES
原文定位：Critics suggest that the Pirahã's inability to learn to count is a cultural choice, not a cognitive limitation imposed by their language. They argue that the Pirahã place a high cultural value on living in the present and discussing only direct, personal experience, which may render abstract concepts like numbers unnecessary
答案：D subordinate clauses
原文定位：Most of all, it may be unique for not employing subordinate clauses;Equally perplexing, the Pirahã appear not to use numbers
答案：C linguistic determinism
原文定位：This idea, known as linguistic determinism, was largely abandoned by the 1970s, but the Pirahã have put it back on the table
答案：B universal grammar
原文定位：One of the most prominent critics is the linguist Noam Chomsky, who proposes that all human languages share a "universal grammar"-a basic, innate set of grammatical rules hardwired into the human brain
答案：A cultural choice
原文定位：Critics suggest that the Pirahã's inability to learn to count is a cultural choice, not a cognitive limitation imposed by their language