【正确答案】正确答案：Sense is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form. Sense can be considered as the collection of all the features of the linguistic form, and it is abstract and de-contexturalized.(2 points)Reference means what a linguistic form refers to in the real and physical world. It deals with the relationship between the linguistic form and the non-linguistic world of experience.(2 points) The distinction between sense and reference is comparable to that between " connotation" and "denotation". Firstly, the former refers to the abstract properties of an entity, while the latter refers to the concrete entities having these properties.(2 points)Secondly, every word has a sense but not every word has a reference.(2 points)Thirdly, it is not convenient to explain the meaning of a word in terms of the thing they refer to. Therefore, we should study meaning in terms of sense rather than reference.(2 points)

【答案解析】解析：本题考查“意义”和“所指”的区别。“意义”是抽象的、不依赖语境的；而“所指”是具体能在现实世界找到的，是现实经验和语言元素之间的桥梁。二者的区别有三点：一、“意义”指事物的抽象特征，而“所指”则是具备具体特征的事物；二、从二者和单词的联系上来看，每一个单词都有“意义”，但并不是每一个单词都有“所指”；三、研究的对象应该是“意义”而不是“所指”。