This_________ to be an interesting evening．


  1. A.
    promises
  2. B.
    permits
  3. C.
    allows
  4. D.
    permission
A
“今晚肯定會非常有趣”，promise在此表示“猜測；斷言”。
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some race in history didn’t possess a language of its own

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any human race, whether backward or not, has a language

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some races on earth call communicate without language

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