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1、0071700528-pp369-39710/13/104:57PMPage369AnswersandExplanationsAnswersandExplanationsSECTION3VerbalReasoning25QuestionswithExplanationsForeachofQuestions1to4,selectoneanswerchoiceunlessotherwiseinstructed.Questions1to3arebasedonthefollowingreadingpassag
2、e.WhetherthelanguagesoftheancientAmericanpeopleswereusedforexpressingabstractuniversalconceptscanbeclearlyansweredinthecaseofNahuatl.Nahuatl,likeGreekandGerman,isalanguagethatallowstheformationofextensivecom-linepounds.Bythecombinationofradicalsorsemant
3、icelements,singlecompoundwords5canexpresscomplexconceptualrelations,oftenofanabstractuniversalcharacter.Thetlamatinime(thosewhoknow)wereabletousethisrichstockofabstracttermstoexpressthenuancesoftheirthought.Theyalsoavailedthemselvesofotherformsofexpress
4、ionwithmetaphoricalmeaning,someprobablyoriginal,somederivedfromTolteccoinages.Oftheseforms,themostcharacteristicinNahuatlisthejuxtaposition10oftwowordsthat,becausetheyaresynonyms,associatedterms,orevencontraries,complementeachothertoevokeonesingleidea.U
5、sedmetaphorically,thejuxtaposedtermsconnotespecificoressentialtraitsofthebeingtheyreferto,introducingamodeofpoetryasanalmosthabitualformofexpression.DescriptionThispassageclaimsthatNahuatlwasusedtoexpressabstractuniversalconcepts,bycombiningsemanticelem
6、ents,andgoesontoexplainthatthetlamatinimeusedthesetermstoexpresssubtledistinctions.Forthefollowingquestion,considereachofthechoicesseparatelyandselectallthatapply.1.Whichofthefollowingcanbeinferredfromthepassageregardingpresent-dayresearchrelatingtoNahu
7、atl?ASomerecordorevidenceofthethoughtofthetlamatinimeisavailable.BForatleastsomeNahuatlexpressions,researchersareabletotracetheirderivationfromanotherancientAmericanlanguage.CResearchersbelievethatinNahuatl,abstractuniversalconceptsarealwaysexpressed
8、metaphorically.ExplanationChoicesAandBarecorrect.ChoiceAiscorrect:thetlamatinimearementionedinthefirstsentenceofthesec-ondparagraph,whereitsaystheywereabletouseNahuatl’sstockofabstractterms“toexpressthenuancesoftheirthought.”This
