问答题What is a constitutional monarchy? When did it begin in the U. K. ?

问答题Translate the underlined parts into Chinese.(5x5) Technological progress brings about changes in manners. 【F1】 Books on etiquette do not always take note of this, but life itself brings new forms of behavior into being. The elevator may not be a recent invention, but it is a good example. 【F2】 Not long ago I started living in a building with an elevator and it was some time before I understood the customs attached to it. The first and most important principle is not to catch the eye of any of the passengers, or even look them in the face. Thanks to that, everybody in the building is well acquainted with the state of their neighbors" footwear. They stare at the boots, pumps, sneakers and moccasins but they do not pass any remarks. They do not, for example, say that your shoes are so shiny or that you have fabulous bootlaces. They just look. 【F3】 Instead of looking at boots, it is also possible to gaze at the elevator walls. In such cases, the passengers resemble archeologists scrutinizing the walls of an Egyptian tomb. I already know by heart all the rules displayed on the notice telling us how to use a passenger elevator. I know the maximum weight permitted. 【F4】 What is more if I were woken in the middle of the night I could recite the name of the corporation thanks to which I can ride the elevator, and all its telephone numbers. Sometimes there is a discarded scrap of paper on the elevator floor. 【F5】 Everyone immediately fixes their gaze on this paper, examines it, inspects it but—what is interesting—nobody picks it up. Presumably it has to stay there for the next passengers.

问答题Willy Loman(from; Death of a Salesman)

问答题This was a farm where you could find all kinds of birds: chickens, quails, turkeys, ducks and geese and so on.

问答题Make a comment on Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

问答题The House of the Seven Gables

问答题For the following words, state the conditions under which the different forms of the past tense appear. What determines whether /t/, /d/, or /id/ is used? What distinctive features define conditioning environment? (南开大学2004研)1. crushed 2. heaped 3. kicked 4. pitted5. deeded 6. bagged 7. killed 8. nabbed9. thrived 10. breathed 11. turned 12. hissed13. plowed 14. climbed 15. singed 16. hanged17. cinched 18. played 19. hated 20. branded

问答题Performatives

问答题Please read the following poem and make comments in about 300 words.(50 points)Death the LevelerThe glories of our blood and stateAre shadows, not substantial things;There is no armor against Fate;Death lays his icy hand on kings;Sceptre and CrownMust tumble down,And in the dust be equal madeWith the poor crooked scythe and spade.Some men with swords may reap the field,And plant fresh laurels where they kill:But their strong nerves at last must yield;They tame but one another still;Early or lateThey stoop to fate,And must give up their murmuring breathWhen they, pale captives creep to death.The garlands wither on your brow;Then boast no more your mighty deeds!Upon Death"s purple altar nowSee where the victor-victim bleeds.Your heads must come To the cold tomb:Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

问答题Categorize the following pairs: child - kid, alive - dead, big - small, husband - wife.

问答题Back-formation(四川大学2008研；北外2010研)

问答题Lexical relations (上海交大2006研)

问答题What are the four conditions that the performance of speech acts is supposed to satisfy if it is to be felicitous? Discuss how the following two instances of speech act performance may "deviate"from the rules or conditions.(20/150)(1)Thank for not smoking.(used as a public sign)(2)I really appreciate your effort to share my secret with my enemy!

问答题dramatic monologue

问答题List and discuss four defining properties of verbs in English.

问答题AuthorsA. Henry David Thoreau B. William Wordsworth C. Charles DickensD. Alexander Pope E. Francis Bacon F. Charlotte BronteG. Percy Bysshe Shelley H. Robert Frost I. Mark TwainJ. William Shakespeare K. Nathaniel Hawthorne L. Ralph W. EmersonM. William Blake

问答题The roles of Transformational-Generative linguistics and Functional linguistics in language teaching and learning. (武汉大学2007研)

问答题In Chinese tone changes are used in the way that affects the meanings of individual words.

问答题Choose four of the following questions for Essay Discussion. Write the number of the question and your essay on the ANSWER SHEET. There is no doubt that linguistic science today, like other parts of human knowledge, is the product of its past and matrix of its future(R. H. Robins, 1997). Discuss the progress with shifts among different approaches to language chronologically from antiquity up to the present.

问答题Answer the following questions IN ABOUT 150 WORDS each:(20 points)Make a comment on Emily Bronte" s novel Wuthering Heights.