问答题He is very good at playing the flute.

问答题Scholars have tried to explain how human being acquire or learn the language. There are two major schools of thought in language learning theories, empiricism and mentalism. Please define and explain these two terms, and then make comments with your own point of views.

问答题Some language teachers argue that we should "teach the language" rather than "teach about the language". What are the major differences between these two approaches to language teaching?

问答题Read the following passage and state what wrong is with the use of "hello" from the socio- cultural perspective. A group of Chinese girls who just arrived at the U.S. for their university education decided to visit the city of New York together. Since their school was not very far from the city, so they planned to take a Grevhound bus to go there at the weekend. Saturday morning, they got up early and after two hours' drive they got to the downtown of the city. They stayed therefor a couple of hours, shopping and sightseeing happily. Everything seemed OK until it was the time for them to go back—they suddenly realized that they lost their way back to the Greyhound bus station. What made the situation worse was that it was getting darker. In despair, they stopped at a corner on the street and decided to ask for help. At this moment they saw a young couple passing by so they said "Hello!" to this couple. To their surprise, the couple looked at them coldly and hustled on. Having no way out, they approached to the next group of passers-by and tried a louder "Hello" this time. Again they got nothing but a cold shoulder from these city people.

问答题Give the phonetic term according to the following description: the sound made with the tongue tip or blade and the upper from teeth.

问答题Our hypothesis is that immigrants, who often do not speak the language and do not master the culture and norms of the host country, are concentrated in more manual-routine tasks (especially among less educated groups). The inflow of immigrants thus increases the supply of manual skills relative to the supply of abstract skills with two effects: ● Due to the complementarity between these types of skills, the increase in the supply of manual tasks boosts relative compensation for complex skills, making them better paid. ● Exploiting their comparative advantage, natives move to occupations requiring a relatively higher level of these skills. This positive reallocation and the complementarity of tasks can explain the lack of negative employment effects as well as the potential positive wage effects of immigration on native workers. So here"s how it all shakes out. Low-skilled immigration reduces economic inequality when we set aside nationalist assumptions and focus on people instead of populations. Even if we cling to analytical and moral nationalism, low-skilled immigration doesn"t happen to increase measured inequality. On the contrary, complementaries between the skills of migrant and native workers can leave natives better off than they would have been with less immigration. 注释： (1)hypothesis n. 假设 (2)account for动词短语固定搭配，解释……的原因 (3)positive a. 积极的/正面的negative a. 消极的/反面的 (4)host a. 主人，主持host country在文中指移民寄居国 (5)boost v. 向上推，推起 (6)reallocation n. 重新分配allocate v. 分配，配给 allocation n. 前缀re-，有“重新、再”的意思 (7)complementarity n. 互补性 complementary a. (8) ...than they would have been with less immigration. would have+过去分词，表示对过去发生动作或状态的可能性推测的虚拟用法

问答题I found something interesting on the Internet.

问答题displacement

问答题Directions: Suppose your class is to hold a charity sale for kids in need of help. Write your classmates an email to 1) inform them about the details and encourage them to participate. 2) Don"t use your own name; use "Li Ming" instead. Don"t write your address.

问答题What are linguistic competence and communicative competence?

问答题Phonology

问答题Directions: You are preparing for an English test and are in need of some reference books. Write a letter to the sales department of a bookstore to ask for: 1. detailed information about the books you want, 2. methods of payment, 3. time and way of delivery.

问答题Remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheel-barrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ringing an auction bell or writing funny things, you must work. If you look around you will see the men who are the most able to live the rest of their days without work are the men who work the hardest. Don"t be afraid of killing yourself with overwork. It is beyond your power to do that on the sunny side of thirty. They die sometimes, but it is because they quit work at six in the evening, arid do not go home until two in the morning. It"s the interval that kills, my son. The work gives you an appetite for your meals; it lends solidity to your slumbers, it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday. There are young men who do not work, but the world is not proud of them. It does not know their names, even it simply speaks of them as "old so-and-so"s boy." Nobody likes them; the great, busy world doesn"t know that they are there. So find out what you want to be and do, and take off yore coat and make a dust in the world. The busier you are, the less harm you will be apt to get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter and happier your holidays, and the better satisfied will the world be with you.

问答题Communicative Competence

问答题HTTP

问答题How do you understand the dichotomy between competence and performance postulated by Chomsky?

问答题Discuss five kinds of lexical relations, using English examples to illustrate your points.

问答题 Incorrect Correct You should return the library the books. You should return the books to the library. He reported the police the accident. He reported the accident to the police.

问答题Mention a labiodental sound in English. Tell what speech organs are involved in producing labiodental sounds.

问答题Semantic Triangle