单选题In the 18th century,____found its expression chiefly in poetry, especially that of William Blake and Robert Burns.

单选题Which branch of phonetics concerns the production of speech sounds?

单选题______ is well known for depicting the absurdity of human conditions in the post-industrial society after World War II in his play.

单选题There are generally three kinds of sense relations recognized, sameness relation, oppositeness relation and inclusiveness relation. They are represented by______respectively.(大连外国语学院2008研)

单选题The first symbol of self-made American man is______.

单选题Which of the following novelists is the leading figure of "black humor"?

单选题He opened his lips as if______ some reply.

单选题All normal children have equal ability in learning their first language.

单选题The Age of William Shakespeare is also called the second period of____.

单选题Chomsky"s TG Grammar differs from the structural grammar in the following EXCEPT______

单选题English sounds[1]and[r]are liquids.

单选题All syllables must have a nucleus but not all syllables contain an onset and a coda.

单选题A curriculum does NOT provide ______.

单选题______ are long narrative poems that record the adventures of a hero whose exploits are important to the history of a nation.

单选题Phonetic similarity means that the allophones of a phoneme must bear some phonetic resemblance.

单选题Using extremely different decorating schemes in adjoining rooms may result in ______ and lack of unity in style.

单选题The sound[s]is shared by "use" and "maps" as a common morpheme.

单选题The people of Marseille have a tendency to exaggerate, and you can"t spend long there without hearing the story about the sardine which blocked the old harbour, the Vieux Port. In fact such an event really did occur during the French Revolution, though the obstruction was caused not by a fish of the herring family(for the Vieux Port is about 300 yards wide)but by a ship called the Sardine which was placed there by counter-revolutionaries blockading the insurgents. Or perhaps it was the insurgents who were blockading the counter-revolutionaries: nowadays most people have forgotten the origins of the story entirely, let alone the details, and the sardine which blocked the Vieux Port now exists mainly as a joking example of the Marseillais habit of presenting facts larger than life-size. Almost as much as exaggeration, they like leg-pulling. I was therefore more than a little skeptical when the other day in Marseille I was told that there was a whale on the beach. Initially I dismissed the story as a piece of out-of-season April foolery. But there it was. When we arrived, the coastguards were winching it up onto the jetty with steel hawsers wrapped around the tail. As it was on its back you could easily see the deep folds along the front that identified it as a Rorqual whale: Balenoptera Physalus, according to Madame Turon of the Marseille Museum of Natural History. Being a whale it was, needless to say, enormous. It weighed 10 tons and was 45 feet long. Even so, the poor thing was only a baby. Madame Turon reckoned it was only a year old, for an adult grows to some 70 feet. She said it had died a natural death, probably as much as a month ago, having somehow been separated from its school and succumbed to thirst and hunger. The body was scratched, presumably by having been washed up against rocks, but at first sight seemed to be in a fairly good state. The smell soon told you otherwise, and the temperature that day was well up. It was an event that aroused a mixture of conflicting feelings: fascination and awe at the close-up spectacle of such a magnificent creature; pity at the lack of dignity with which it was being hauled from its element, backwards and up-side down; self-disgust at being part of the crowd of gawping camera-clicking onlookers. We left fairly soon, and were glad to have missed the sequel as recorded in the next day"s papers. The whale was being placed in the back of a large lorry, its tail resting on the cabin, its head hanging off the end. It was then driven to a factory to be cut up for its oils, highly valued in the manufacture of cosmetics. Taking a corner of the Corniche President John Kennedy, its decomposing tongue fell out onto the road. It caused a traffic jam that was unusual even by the standards of Marseille, and one that will doubtless go down in legend along with the sardine that blocked the Vieux Port.

单选题What used to be the danger in being a man according to the first paragraph?

单选题We all accept that killing is in general wrong, but virtually all of us also recognize certain exception—that is, concede that there can be instances in which killing is permissible. In addition to accepting the obvious permissibility of killing microbes and plants(except then this is objectionable for either instrumental or impersonal reasons)most people believe that it can be permissible in a variety of circumstances to kill animals, and also that it can be permissible to kill other human beings in self-defense and in appropriate conditions in war. There are four distinct categories into which we may sort most or all instances of killing for which there may be a reasonable justification. Perhaps the most contentious category consists of cases in which killing would simply promote the greater good—for example, a case in which killing one person would prevent the killing, or the deaths, or the deaths, of a much greater number of people. The second category consists of cases in which an individual has done something that has lowered the moral barriers to harming him, or compromised his status as inviolable, or made him liable to action that might result in his death. Cases in which killing might be thought to be justified for this sort of reason include killing in self defense, killing in war, and killing as a mode of punishment. The third category of possibly permissible killing consists of cases in which the metaphysical or moral status of the individual killed is uncertain or controversial. Among those beings whose nature arguably entails a moral status inferior to our own are animals, human embryos and fetuses, newborn infants, congenitally severely retarded human beings, human beings who have suffered severe brain damage or dementia, and human beings who have been in irreversible coma. These are beings that are in one way or another "at the margins". The fourth and final category comprises cases in which death would not be harm to an individual but instead a benefit. In many such cases, the individual for whom death would be a benefit also desires to die and may request to be killed or helped to die. The practical issues that arise under this heading are suicide, assisted suicide and euthanasia.