问答题
Incorrect Correct
Linguistics is getting more and more
important to our understanding of the world,
some knowledge of it is beneficial.
As linguistics is getting more and more
important to our understanding of the world,
some knowledge of it is beneficial.
Humor helps us in many ways, we all need
it.
As humor helps us in many ways, we all
need it.


【正确答案】It is known that tile English language is hypotactic language which attaches great importance to the use of conjunctions or other types of cohesive devices, while Chinese is paratactic in nature, which means that it seldom relies on conjunctions and cohesive devices of this kind to establish logical relationships between clauses. So we can say that the reason why the students have committed such errors is quite obvious: it is a result of negative transfer of their native language.
【答案解析】[解析] 本题仍然属于语言负迁移的范畴,考生一定知道英语是一种形式语言,非常借重形式化的表达(衔接手段)来建立句与句之间的逻辑关系,而汉语则主要靠句与句之间的意义关系来建立这种逻辑。