上一段最末一句说Stokoe的观点在当时过于超前,被视为学术异端,最后一段时空一下跳转到了37年以后,此时的Stokoe忙于写作、编辑、出品美国手语方面的书籍报刊和视频,同时饶有兴致地为人讲述这场革命是如何开始的。从这里的信息可以看出,Stokoe的观点的地位已经是今非昔比了,否则如此多的出版物不会有市场需求,其称呼也不会从异端变为革命。不过,反对观点依然十分强大,这一派认为语言必须以语音为基础,是声音的变体,而Stokoe则反驳手语恰恰以手的动作为基础,讥讽道语言不是嘴巴层次的东西,而是大脑层次的东西。
Passage Four
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
It came as something of a surprise when Diana, Princess of Wales, made a trip to Angola in 1997, to support the Red Crosss campaign for a total ban on all anti-personnel landmines. Within hours of arriving in Angola, television screens around the World were filled with images of her comforting victims injured in explosions caused by landmines. I knew the statistics, she said. But putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me; like When I met Sandra, a 13-year-old girl who had lost her leg, and people like her.
The Princess concluded, with a simple message: We must stop landmines. And she used every opportunity during her visit to repeat this message.
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