英语阅读1，麻烦大家了。

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How men first learn to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken, or written in letters, we call words.

The power of words, then, lies in their associations---the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience, and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something to us increases.

Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and

56.D
the origin of language is a mystery.
57.A
All we know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other;
58.A
somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down
59.D
The power of words, then, lies in their associations---the things they bring up before our minds
60.B
Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions.

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56. The origin of language is _____.
D. a problem not yet solved

57. One of the reasons why men invented certain sounds to express th