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课时检测训练6y修第一册UNTT5 LANGUAGES AROUND THE WORLD ,对应答案P438 【.阅读理解 This research overturns the popular view (2022·全国新高考I卷)Human speech that all human speech sounds were present when contains more than 2,000 different sounds.from human beings evolved around 300,000 years the common“m”and“a”to the rare clicks of:ago.“The set of speech sounds we use has not some southern African languages.But why are necessarily remained stable since the appearance certain sounds more common than others?A of human beings,but rather the huge variety of ground-breaking,five-year study shows that speech sounds that we find today is the product diet-related changes in human bite led to new of a complex interplay of things like biological speech sounds that are now found in half the change and cultural evolution,"said Steven world's languages. Moran,a member of the research team. More than 30 years ago,the scholar 1.Which aspect of the human speech sound does Charles Hockett noted that speech sounds called Damian Blasi's research focus on? labiodentals,such as“f”and“v”,were more A.Its variety. B.Its distribution. common in the languages of societies that ate C.Its quantity. D.Its development. softer foods.Now a team of researchers led by :2.Why was it difficult for ancient human adults Damian Blasi at the University of Zurich, to produce labiodentals? Switzerland.has found how and why this trend A.They had fewer upper teeth than lower teeth. arose. B.They could not open and close their lips easily. They discovered that the upper and lower C.Their jaws were not conveniently structured. front teeth of ancient human adults were aligned D.Their lower front teeth were not large enough. (对齐)，making it hard to produce labiodentals, 3.What is Paragraph 5 mainly about? which are formed by touching the lower lip to A.Supporting evidence for the research results. the upper teeth.Later,our jaws changed to an B.Potential application of the research findings. overbite structure(结构)，making it easier to C.A fu