问答题[th] ______

问答题With the nation's financial system teetering (蹒跚) on a cliff, the compensation arrangements for executives of the big banks and other financial firms are coming under close examination again. Bankers' excessive risk-taking is a significant cause of this financial crisis and has contributed to others in the past. In this case, it was fueled by low interest rates and kept going by a false sense of security created by a debt-fueled bubble in the economy. Mortgage lenders gladly lent enormous sums to those who could not afford to pay them back, dividing the loans and selling them off to the next financial institution along the chain, which took advantage of the same high-tech securitization (证券化) to load on more risky mortgage-based assets. Financial regulation will have to catch up with the most irresponsible practices that led banks down this road, in hopes of averting the next crisis, which is likely to involve different financial techniques and different sorts of assets. But it is worth examining the root problem of compensation schemes that are tied to short-term profits and revenue's, and thus encourage bankers to take irresponsible levels of risk.

问答题The rejection of Victorian gentility was, in any case, inevitable.

问答题What is the difference between direct thought and free indirect thought? Compare the following sentences and explain their differences briefly. A. "He will be late", she thought. B. She thought that he would be late. C. He was bound to be late!

问答题conceptual meaning

问答题Directions: In this part, you are allowed to write a letter to express your thanks for your friend"s kindness. Write him/her a letter to 1) say something about the reasons simply; 2) offer your thanks to your friend and hope to have a chance to return. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Zhang Wei" instead. Do not write the address.

问答题One of the characteristics of conversational implicature is CANCELLABITITY. What is the basic working principle of CANCELLABILITY? How can we use it to make our meaning well expressed?

问答题Answer the following questions:

问答题After working 36-hour shifts as a resident in orthopaedic surgery, Taryn Rose knew a lot about sore feet. But unlike most of her colleagues, she turned her pain into profit: Today she is CEO of Taryn Rose International, a $ 28 million company that makes chic, and comfortable, shoes. A Vietnamese refugee who moved to the United States when she was just eight, Rose assumed she"d follow in the footsteps of her physician father. For a while, she did, getting her medical degree from the University of Southern California and opting for gruelling training in orthopaedic surgery. But when the time came to apply for post-residential fellowships, Rose found her heart was no longer in medicine. "I felt like a part of me, the part that loves to learn new things, that likes adventure, would be dying." Rose had always loved shoes, especially high heels. When her fellow residents headed home after long hours on their feet, "I would make my way to Neiman Marcus for some retail therapy," she says. What if, she wondered, she gave up her career to learn how to make stylish shoes that could stand up to a day"s work? Notes： (1)resident住院医师 (2)orthopaedic surgery矫形外科，整形外科 (3)chic漂亮的，时髦的 (4)opt for选择，挑选 (5)grueling严厉的，严格的

问答题language universals

问答题The Empire State Building, the world"s tallest for four decades and still the tallest in New York City, will buy 100% wind power from Texas-based Green Mountain Energy Company. "It was a natural fit for us to combine 100% clean energy with our nearly completed, groundbreaking energy efficiency retrofit work," Anthony E. Malkin, president of Malkin Holdings, which runs the building, said in the announcement. "Clean energy and our nearly 40% reduced consumption of watts gives us a competitive advantage in attracting the best credit tenants at the best rents." The two-year contract for 55 million kilowatt hours of renewable energy annually will prevent nearly 100 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions each year, according to Green Mountain. The company estimates the CO 2 reduction is the equivalent of nearly every house in New York state turning off their lights for a week or planting nearly 150,000 trees—more than six times the number in Central Park. As part of its green retrofit, the Empire State Building has hired Serious Materials to remove, retrofit and replace each of its 6,514 double-hung, dual-pane windows. It"s also adding insulation and other upgrades. 注释： (1)the Empire State美国纽约帝国大厦 (2)decade n. 十年 (3)combine...with与……结合 (4)groundbreaking复合形容词，前所未有的 (5)retrofit n. 改装，修缮 (6)holdings也可以为holding company，控股公司 (7)consumption n. 动词形式consume，消费，消耗 (8)renewable a. 由词根new加前缀re-，renew更新，再生，加后缀-able有被动意，即可再生的。renewable energy可再生能源 (9)carbon dioxide二氧化碳 (10)emission n. 排放emit v. 排放 (11)equivalent n. 等量 (12)insulation n. 绝热，绝缘insulate v. ～from使……与……隔离

问答题Jack had a very good math teacher, but the boy failed the math exam.

问答题What is cognitive linguistics?

问答题Point out the commonness shared by the two sounds [t] and [n].

问答题A new study shows a relationship between fast walking and life expectancy. For this study, researchers looked at walking speed and other health factors for almost 35,000 older adults. They followed the participants for up to 20 years. Dr. Stephanie Studenski at the University of Pittsburgh led the study. "Your walking speed is a reflection of just how well many of your body"s systems are doing," noted Studenski. By timing walking speed and using the longevity charts, doctors can provide better care for their patients. For example, most doctors don"t screen patients older than 70 for prostate cancer. But if a man is otherwise healthy and energetic, and expected to live at least 10 more years, he might benefit from the screening. For those who are less healthy, doctors could look for ways to improve their health and quality of life. Dr. Studenski says the charts, while good, however, are not always indicators of longevity. Some people in good health just prefer to walk slowly.

问答题productivity (as a property of language)

问答题Explain this statement and give at least two examples of it: "In studying other cultures, we do so from the perspective of our own culture./

问答题[l] ______

问答题Minimal pairs

问答题The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock S"io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiama staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giarnmai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun, s"I"odo il vero Senza tema d"infamia ti rispondo. Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotel And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells; Streets tat follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question... Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys, Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap, And seeing that it was a soft October night, Curled once about the house, and fell asleep. And indeed there will be time For the yellow smoke that slides along the street, Rubbing its back upon the window-panes; There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair— (They will say: "How his hair is growing thin!") My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin, My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin— (They will say:" By how his arms and legs are thin!") Do I dare? Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room. So how should I presume? And I have known the eyes already, known them all— The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, Then how should I begin To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways? And how should I presume? And I have known the arms already, known them all— Arms that are braceleted and white and bare (But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!) Is it perfume from a dress That makes me so digress? Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume? And how should I begin? …… Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas... …… And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! Smoothed by long fingers, Asleep... tired... or it malingers, Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me. Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet—and here"s no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid. And would it have been worth it, after all, After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question, To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead, Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"— If one, settling a pillow by her head, Should say: "That is not what I meant at all. That is not it, at all." And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along The floor— And this, and so much more? — It is impossible to say just what I mean! But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen: Would it have been worth while If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl, And turning toward the window, should say: "That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all." No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two. Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous- Almost, at times, the Fool. I grow old... I grow old... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not thing that they will sing to me. I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.