私醫聯招 英文歷屆試題｜第 484 題

Languages are  (31)  complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture: they  (32)  the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating within their respective culture. To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture; in a poet’s words, “As many languages as one speaks, so many lives one lives.” A culture and its languages are as  (33)  as brain and body: while one is a part of the other, neither can function without the other. In learning a foreign language, the best beginning is with the  (34)  linguistic elements of the language, such as its gestures, and its body language. Eye contact is extremely important in English. Direct eye contact  (35)  understanding, or, as the English maxim has it, seeing eye-to-eye. We can never see eye-to-eye with native speakers of English until we have learned to look directly into their eyes.