单选题：Questions are based on the following passage．The intimate re

Questions are based on the following passage．
The intimate relationship between speakers and their speech has led some scholarsto suggest that language determines the view we have of the world around us. Differentlanguages segment natural phenomena differently. We name seven colors in the rainbow:violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red in this order or the reverse. Speakersof other languages may see only four, as did Turkish before our system was introduced, oreven as few as two, roughly the lighter shades versus the darker. There is nothing in natureto demonstrate how we should chop up the spectrum ( 光谱 ) of the rainbow, which ismade up of a scale of various wavelengths. But when we have learned a given language,we distinguish the shades it designates, both in the rainbow and elsewhere. Many studentsof language assume from such a situation and other similar situations that languagedetermines much of the shapes and patterns we see in the world around us, that it directsour concepts and actions.
Changes in the choice of language, then, might modify behavior. Today gasolinetrucks are generally labeled "flammable ( 易燃的 ) ". The in- prefix was often taken asequivalent, to that of words like "inanimate" and "inaccurate", where in- means "not". Itis actually the in- of words like "intense" and, "inflect", where it strengthens the meaning.
The word "inflammable", then, means "highly flammable". The faulty interpretation oflanguage, however, determined the attitudes of many speakers, who thereupon adjustedtheir behavior in relation to the language. Prudent truck owners have taken notice andchanged the warning to "flammable".
Such observations led Whorl to a concern with deeper patterns of language, suchas the use of tenses in the languages of Europe. Tense is the linguistic expression of time.
English and other European languages generally require their speakers to identify thetime of an event, whether present: It's raining; past: It rained; or future: It will rain. Bycontrast, many languages, such as the Hopi language of New Mexico, lack expression fortense. Nor do such languages objectify ( 使具体化 ) time. In Hopi one cannot count day,minutes, years as though they were objects like stones or bottles. Everyday expressionslike "I'll wait two days" or "Three years went by" are impossible in Hopi.
Comparing such languages Whorf proposed that our use of tense, "our objectifiedview of time is favorable to historicity ( 史实性 ) and to everything connected with thekeeping of records." That is to say, because of the patterns for referring to time in Englishand other languages, their speakers maintain records and emphasize bookkeeping,accounting, and the like. Further, we are interested in calendars, clocks, and time graphsas well as in history and archaeology ( 考古学 ) . In accordance with it one's conceptions ofthe world is relative to the language one learns.
While the relativity hypothesis has attracted considerable attention, it has neverbeen experimentally demonstrated to the valid. A large scale attempt to test theoutlook of Hopi-speaking children versus English-speaking children turned out to beinconclusive ( 不确定的 ) . It remains a task of future scholars to determine whether thehypothesis is valid and also whether one should assume a weak or strong position withregard to it. Clearly we are deeply tied to our native language. But whether it regulates ourperceptions or our view of the world is still an open question.
According to some language students, what is the consequence of learning a language? A．We can learn different expressions of the same thing.
B．It can influence our concepts and actions.
C．It contributes to the creation of new language systems.
D．It becomes possible to distinguish differences between languages.