填空题 Fill in the numbered blanks with proper words. Choose among the listed words below. You can add prefixes or suffixes to the words to make sure they come in correct forms in terms of both grammar and meaning. chant, mistaken, magic, venture, deliberate, appropriate, violate, necessary, subdue, communicate, intelligible, nonetheless, resistible, dimension, condition, rage, anticipate, sanctuary, intrinsic, ward, imagine, obvious At the heart of the American Indian oral tradition is a deep and 1belief in the efficacy of language. Words are 2powerful. They are 3By means of words can one bring about physical change in the universe. By means of words can one quiet a 4weather, bring forth the harvest, 5off evil, rid the body of sickness and pain, 6an enemy, capture the heart of a lover, live in the proper way, and 7beyond death. Indeed there is nothing more powerful. When a person ventures to speak, when he utters a prayer or tells a story, he is dealing with forces that are supernatural and 8He assumes great risks and responsibilities. He is clear and 9in his mind and in his speech; he will be taken at his word. Even so, he knows that he stands the chance of speaking indirectly or 10, or of 11by his hearers, or of not being heard at all. To be careless in the presence of words, on the inside of language, is to 12a fundamental morality. But one does not 13speak in order to be heard. It is sometimes enough that one places one"s voice on the silence, for that in itself is a whole and appropriate expression of the spirit. In the Native American oral tradition expression, rather than 14, is often first in importance. In the Yeibichai of the Navajo, for example, the singers 15in the strange and urgent language of the mountain spirits, a language that is 16to us mortals. Although meaningless in the ordinary sense of the word, the chant is 17deeply moving and powerful beyond question. In this sense, silence too is powerful. It is the 18in which ordinary and extraordinary events take their proper places. In the Indian world, a word is spoken or a song is sung, not against, but within the silence. In the telling of a story there are silences in which words are 19or held on to, heard to echo in the still depths of the imagination. In the oral tradition, silence is the 20of sound. Words are wholly alive in the hold of silence; there they are sacred.