题目内容
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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳答案。
Although earliest men had little difficulty in judging quantities by naming individual members or items of a group, they weren't, as such, able to count them and would be unable to make the connection between saying three leaves and three apples.
Anthropologists (人类学家) say that counting methods were extremely basic, with words for “one” and “two”and then a word which just meant “many” (much the same as today we talk about “crowds” of people, “herds” of animals and “handfuls” of sweets.) As recently as 1972, a tribe of cave - dwellers in the Philippines couldn't answer the question “How many people are there in your tribe?”, although they could individually list all 24 members of their group. And one tribe who lives on the edge of the Amazon jungle, even today, has no system of numbers, simply a verb meaning “to be two alike”.
Some languages still remain some difference between one, two and many, in what is grammatically known as the “dual form”. in Arabic for example “bait” means “house” and “baiten” means “two house”. Similar forms exist in the pronoun “you”, where there is a distinction (区别) between you singular, you two and you many.
The earliest counting system, binary, was also based on this one two system. Hands and fingers were used to express both numbers and measurements, and the fact that we have ten fingers probably answers the development of the decimal system (十进制), though this doesn't explain the English and American aversion (厌恶) to such a system (one theory is that theyoriginally had 12 fingers!)
The actual writing of numbers progresses from using notch (刻痕计数) through to symbols. The Arabic system of numbers is now the most widely used, with Roman numerals being for more specialized use.
1．What does the text mainly tell us?
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A．The origin of counting.
B．The way of counting.
C．The development of counting.
D．The counting and measurement.
2．From the text we know that until now some tribes have been unable to ________.
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A．judge quantities by naming individual members
B．know how to count in numbers
C．tell their members from those in the other tribes
D．answer the easy questions about leaves and apples
3．The two examples given in the text to show what is grammatically known as the “dual form” are ________.
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4．The earliest way to count numbers is to use ________.
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