填空题The words we use control and direct and limit the thoughts they express. We are spurred ______ action by slogans and catchwords rather than by the concrete realities they embody.
填空题resistible
填空题wives
填空题One national study found that nearly 23 percent of mothers
between
21 and 29 years of age are
out of
the labor force because of child-care problems. Because many of these mothers lack high school
diplomas
, they have difficulty
to compete
in the labor market.
A. between B. out of C. diplomas D. to compete
填空题It is characteristic of Halliday's theory that more attention is paid to paradigmatic relations than to syntagmatic relations, which is the main concern of Chomsky.
填空题In a society in which people blame everyone from their parents to the government for their failure to get ahead, motivational superstars refuse to buy ______ the victim mentality.
填空题primary
填空题Human language is arbitrary. This refers to the fact that there is no logical or intrinsic connection between a particular sound and the ______ it is associated with.
填空题political
填空题The brance of grammar which studies the internal structure of sentence is called ______.
填空题legal
填空题Women being the "weaker" sex, it is only natural that they should cry in certain emotional situations. In women, crying is excusable. But in men, crying is a mark of ______.
填空题In his ignorance, he lay bleeding and wishing he could ______ out for help, but there was no voice in his throat.
填空题The last sound of "sit" can be articulated as an unreleased or released plosive. These different realizations of the same phoneme are not in complementary distribution.
填空题Other researchers did not examine brain
tissue
.
Moreover
, they
measured
the brain"s electrical
activity
, and made a map of the electrical signals.
A. tissue B. Moreover C. measured D. activity
填空题mechanism
填空题Syntax refers to the study of the rules governing the way words are combined to form sentences in a language.
填空题sigh
填空题Sometimes a child ______ stress at home or school may have an unpleasant experience with an insect or animal, and transfer its anxiety to the creature concerned.
填空题In research into the relation between structure and function, J. Firbas developed the notion of ______. This notion is based on the fact that linguistic communication is not a static phenomenon, but a dynamic one.