单选题Analogic change refers to the reduction of the number of exceptional or irregular morphemes. (对外经贸2005研)

单选题I made______use of my spare time, mixing with a lot of people and practicing my English.

单选题The research purposes of sociolinguistics include all the following EXCEPT .

单选题A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.The following selection is from Emerson" s work entitled______.

单选题Which of the following is NOT a main branch of general linguistics?

单选题A The above is the most important aspect B which apes C can be told from more D primitive social groupings.

单选题______were the ancestors of the English and the founders of England.

单选题Whenever we (hear of) a natural disaster

单选题Compound words consist of______ morphemes. (北二外2003研)

单选题A In the diet of B most Northern Europeans, the potato is a C more usual source of starch D as rice.

单选题Dickens takes the sinister aspect of the British legal system as the theme of his novel______

单选题The author seems to believe the revival of the U.S. economy in the 1990s can be attributed to the ______.

单选题Merchant of Venice shows the achievements made in______.

单选题 Research on animal intelligence always makes us wonder just how smart humans are. {{U}}(1) {{/U}}the fruit-fly experiments described by Carl Zimmer in the Science Times. Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly{{U}} (2) {{/U}}to live shorter lives. This suggests that{{U}} (3) {{/U}}bulbs burn longer, that there is a(n){{U}} (4) {{/U}}in not being too bright. Intelligence, it{{U}} (5) {{/U}}, is a high-priced option. It takes more upkeep, burns more fuel and is slow{{U}} (6) {{/U}}the starting line because it depends on learning — a(n){{U}} (7) {{/U}}process — instead of instinct. Plenty of other species are able to learn, and one of the things they've apparently learned is when to{{U}} (8) {{/U}}. Is there an adaptive value to{{U}} (9) {{/U}}intelligence? That's the question behind this new research. Instead of casting a wistful glance{{U}} (10) {{/U}}at all the species we've left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real{{U}} (11) {{/U}}of our own intelligence might be. This is{{U}} (12) {{/U}}the mind of every animal we've ever met. Research on animal intelligence also makes us wonder what experiments animals would{{U}} (13) {{/U}}on humans if they had the chance. Every cat with an owner, {{U}}(14) {{/U}}, is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning. We believe that{{U}} (15) {{/U}}animals ran the labs, they would test us to{{U}} (16) {{/U}}the limits of our patience, our faithfulness, our memory for locations. They would try to decide what intelligence in humans is really{{U}} (17) {{/U}}, not merely how much of it there is. {{U}}(18) {{/U}}, they would hope to study a(n){{U}} (19) {{/U}}question: Are humans actually aware of the world they live in? {{U}}(20) {{/U}}the results are inconclusive.

单选题The Battle of______witnessed the death of King Harold in 1066.

单选题It is easy for parents to teach their children grammar.

单选题If gender conflicts continue at their current rate, my partner gloomily observed, men may fade into extinction and women will manage fine without them. What with test-tube babies, cloning, a falling birth-rate, and have-it-all career women prevailing like never before, it seems as if old-fashioned, instinct-driven sexual selection was totally out of fashion. But a study from four British universities suggests it is alive and well, and busy shaping the next generation. In spite of emancipation, the feminist movement, gender equality, and consistent efforts to avoid gender-stereotyping, men still prefer to marry women who are not too brainy. In the study a high IQ hampered a woman"s chance of getting married, with a 40 percent drop in marital prospects for every 16-point rise. The opposite was true for their male class-mates. Top-earning men were 8 per cent more likely to be married than their low-earning peers. How interesting that we automatically assume that men are put off by cleverness in women. Perhaps the brainy women did not wan to get married. Possibly they could not find men clever enough to satisfy them. But these interpretations hardly merit more than a passing thought because this study simply reinforces what we know to be broadly true: that most women do want a committed partner and that most stable marriages occur in a power relation, with the man being the center. We usually think of competitiveness as a male activity, and so it is mainly, which is all the more reason for it causing stress in a marriage. Our ancestry certainly included a long phase when the males competed for the alpha role, in which the top male took all the advantages and most of the group matings. Most men nurse secret dreams of being "benign" dictators. No man likes his wife to earn more than he does. We see how fragile are the marriages of those in which the female has the whip hand in the shape of fame, success, and wealth. In contrast, marriages where the female status is obviously inferior, including arranged marriages, there is a greater stability. Women have to accept that coming into our own and achieving the full potential of our (seemingly superior) capacity to use education will undoubtedly make us more inaccessible as partners. More choosy, and therefore less successful.

单选题Some polymorphemic words are compounds.

单选题Several international events in the early 1990s seem likely to ______ , or at least weaken, the trends that emerged in the 1980s,

单选题According to the new tax law, any money earned over that level is taxed at the______of 59 percent.