问答题Pygmalion

问答题English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge"s Lyrical Ballads. Why is Lyrical Ballads considered the milestone to mark the beginning of English Romanticism?

问答题Three senses of "word"

问答题Moon Landing It" s natural the Boys should whoop it up for so huge a phallic triumph, an adventure it would not have occurred to women to think worth while, made possible onlybecause we like huddling in gangs and knowing the exact time: yes, our sex may in fairness hurrah the deed, although the motives that primed it were somewhat less than menschlich.A grand gesture. But what does it period? What does it osse? We were always adroiter with objects than lives, and more facile at courage than kindness; from the moment the first flint was flaked this landing was merely a matter of time. But our selves, like Adam" s, still don" t fit us exactly, modernonly in this—Our lack of decorum.Homer" s heroes were certainly no braver than our Trio, but more fortunate: Hector was excused the insult of having his valor covered by television.Worth going to see? I can well believe it. Worth seeing? Mneh! I once rode through a desert and was not charmed: give me a watered lively garden, remote from blatherersabout the New, the von Brauns and their ilk, where on August mornings I can count the morning glories where to die has a meaning, and no engine can shift my perspective.Unsmudged, thank God, my Moon still queens the Heavensas She ebbs and fulls, a Presence to glop at,Her Old Man, made of grit not protein,still visits my Austrian severalwith His old detachment, and the old warningsstill have power to scare me: Hybris comes toan ugly finish, Irreverenceis a greater oaf than Superstition.Our apparatniks will continue makingthe usual squalid mess called History:all we can pray for is that artists,chefs and saints may still appear to blithe it.(1969)

问答题Consider carefully the issue discussed below, and then write an essay that answers the question posed in the task. Oscar Wilde once said that the only thing worse than being talked about was not being talked about. Today it seems we have taken this witticism to its logical extreme. Some people make their lives as " personalities" whose only job is to get their names in the media. They lack any discernible talents except self-promotion. Assignment: You are required to write an essay of about at least 400 words in which you answer the question " Is fame a good thing or a bad thing? " and discuss your point of view on this issue. Support your position logically with examples from literature, the arts, history, politics, science and technology, current events, or your experience or observation. You are required to support your arguments with relevant information and examples based on your own ideas, knowledge and experience. Marks will be awarded for Content, Organization, Grammar, and Appropriateness. Failure to follow the instruction will result in a loss of marks.

问答题The Sick RoseBy William BlakeO Rose thou art sick.The invisible worm,That flies in the nightIn the howling storm:Has found out thy bedOf crimson joy:And his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy.A Red, Red RoseBy Robert BurnsO my Luve"s like a red, red roseThat"s newly sprung in June;O my Luve"s like the melodieThat"s sweetly play"d in tune.As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,So deep in luve am I;And I will luve thee still, my dearTill a" the seas gang dry:Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear,And the rocks melt wi" the sun;I will luve thee still, my dear,While the sands o" life shall run.And fare thee weel, my only LuveAnd fare thee weel, a while!And I will come again, my Luve,Tho" it were ten thousand mile.

问答题She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

问答题Since 2001, the company has spent more on employee training than it did in the previous 10 years combined.

问答题Pip(in Great Expectations)

问答题Essay questions.(12 points)What makes Mark Twain"s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more than a child"s adventure story? Briefly discuss the question from Four aspects; the setting, the language, the characters), and the theme.

问答题YouwillreadatableindicatingtheCPI(ConsumerPriceIndex)ofChinainthepastfivemonths.Writeacompositionofnolessthan120wordstodescribethetrendofCPIandthepossiblecausesforthischange.

问答题Nineteen Eighty-Four

问答题Charles Dickens and Mark Twain are both well-known literary realists. Name one of the masterpieces by each of them and make a brief comparison and/or contrast so as to tell the similarities and/or differences between British and American realism.(1 x 20 =20 points)

问答题emic vs. etic

问答题free morphemes（西安交大2008研)

问答题There is a variety of possible relationships between language and society. The first one is that social structure may either influence or determine linguistic structure and/or behavior; a second possible relationship is directly opposed to the first: linguistic structure and/or behavior may either influence or determine social structure; a third possible relationship is that the influence is bi-directional; language and society may influence each other; a fourth possibility is to assume that there is no relationship at all between linguistic structure and social structure and that each is independent of the other. Discuss and provide evidence for and against the "no relationship" position.

问答题What are the major differences between phonology and phonetics? (西安交通大学2008研)

问答题Write a critical essay in response to the quote and questions below.(30 %)Raymond Williams observed in his The Long Revolution(1961)that "the ordinary Victorian novel ends. . . with a series of settlements, of new engagements and formal relationships, whereas the ordinary twentieth-century novel ends with a man going away on his own, having extricated himself from a dominating situation, and found himself in so doing. "

问答题What are phonemes, phones and allophones? Explain their relationship with examples from English or Chinese. (北外2005研)

问答题self-reliance