问答题Absurd theatre(3 points)

问答题Please read the following poem and make comments in about 300 words.(50 points)The Wild Swans at Coole *The trees are in their autumn beauty,The woodland paths are dry,Under the October twilight the waterMirrors a still sky;Upon the brimming water among the stonesAre nine-and-fifty swans.The nineteenth autumn has come upon meSince I first made my count;I saw, before I had well finished,All suddenly mountAnd scatter wheeling in great broken ringsUpon their clamorous wings.I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,And now my heart is sore.All"s changed since I, hearing at twilight,The first time on this shore,The bell-beat of their wings above my head,Trod with a lighter tread.Unwearied still, lover by lover,They paddle in the coldCompanionable streams or climb the air;Their hearts have not grown old;Passion or conquest, wander where they will,Attend upon them still.But now they drift on the still water,Mysterious, beautiful;Among what rushes will they build,By what lake"s edge of poolDelight men"s eyes when I awake some dayTo find they have flown away?* Coole was the estate of Lady Augusta Gregory, the poet"s friend and patron, who encouraged the young poet and made her house a second home to him.

问答题Write a short essay (in no more than 200 words) about the basic features of Postmodernism. (13 points)

问答题Can you make a brief introduction to Systemic-Functional Grammar?

问答题The English sentences given below are ungrammatical. You are required to give the syntactic explanation to the ungrammaticality in each of the sentences.（南开大学2011研)

问答题Translate the following passage into Chinese. Write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET.(20 points) Carrara, shut in by the great hills, is a very picturesque town in Italy. Few tourists stay there; and the people are nearly all connected, in one way or another, with the mining of marble. There are also villages among the caves, where the workmen live. It contains a beautiful little Theatre, newly built; and it is an interesting custom there, to form the chorus of laborers in the marble mines, who are self-taught and sing by ear. I heard them in a comic opera, and in an act of "Norma" ; and they performed remarkably well; unlike the common people of Italy generally, who(with some exceptions among the Neapolitans)sing terribly out of tune, and have very disagreeable singing voices. Neapolitans: 那不勒斯人

问答题What are the major concerns of pragmatics?（人大2006研)

问答题linguistic variable (北外201 1年研)

问答题Ezra Pound and The Cantos

问答题Answer the following question.(10 points) How did the Vietnam War affect the American people, its economy and political system?

问答题Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

问答题The Crucible

问答题What are the distinctions between interlingual and intralingual errors?

问答题There is a famous saying by C. P. Snow; "Technology... is a queer thing; it brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. " You are supposed to write a composition of about 300 words on the topic; The Impacts of Science and Technology on Humankind. In the first part of your composition, you should present your thesis statement; in the second part, you should support the thesis statement with details; and in the last part, you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and diction. Please write you response on the answer sheet.

问答题the audiolingual method of language teaching

问答题It is claimed in sociolinguistics that you are what you say. How would you comment on this theoretical claim? (武汉大学201 1年研)

问答题Define the following terms with at least two examples;conceptual meaning

问答题Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as 1 couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;

问答题And yet the voices in the house, behind the sprays of mimosa and almond blossom, and from under the piles of iridescent cushions, simply trilled and screamed in a sort of ecstasy: " There must be more money! Oh-h-h; there must be more money. Oh, now, now-w! Now-w-w—there must be more money! —More than ever! More than ever!"

问答题Noam Chomsky is a leading linguistic scientist and his Syntactic Structures outlined his theories of transformational generative grammar, which made him a prominent and controversial figure in the field. Discuss his TG grammar and comment on the innateness hypothesis.