问答题Phoneme is the smallest meaningful unit of sound and morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in grammar. (中山大学2011年研)

问答题Read the following sentence and illustrate the ideas behind this statement: "Register is the term used in linguistics to describe the relationship between a particular style of language and its context of use." (中山大学2006研)

问答题Antagonist

问答题tautology

问答题How do the speech of women and the speech of men differ from each other?

问答题cushions

问答题Dangling Man

问答题The English word unlockable has two different lexical meanings, i. e. "not able to lock" and "able to be unlocked". The semantic ambiguity of the word comes from structural ambiguity. Give the meaning corresponding to the morphemic structure of the word in your analysis. Draw two tree diagrams to show the difference between the two structures. Label the nodes in the tree diagram with proper categories.

问答题head movement

问答题rime(rhyme)

问答题What distinction, if any, can you draw between bilingualism and diglossia?

问答题allophone

问答题He set about rebuilding Paris, and changed it from a picturesque, unsanitary, seventeenth-century city into the spacious, latinized city of marble it is today.

问答题Distinguish between the two possible meanings of more beautiful flowers by means of IC analysis.(北二外2006研；北二外2008研)

问答题Questions 7 to 10 are based on the several stanzas from Edgar Allen Poe"s poem The Raven.The Raven Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door—" Tis some visitor," I muttered, " tapping at my chamber door—Only this and nothing more.Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; —vainly I had sought to borrowFrom my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore—Nameless here for evermore.And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating"Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—This it is, and nothing more. "Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,"Sir, " said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,That I scarce was sure I heard you"—here I opened wide the door—Darkness there, and nothing more.Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?"This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, " Lenore!"Merely this and nothing more.

问答题What a lark! What a Plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bour-ton into the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave; chill and sharp and yet(for a girl of eighteen as she then was)solemn, feeling as she did, standing there at the open window, that something awful was about to happen; looking at the flowers; at the trees with the smoke winding off them and the rooks rising, falling; standing and looking until Peter Wash said, " Musing among the vegetables?"—was that it—"I prefer men to cauliflowers"—was that it?

问答题Imagism

问答题Write a short essay to tell what you know about essayists in British and American literatures. Name at least two well-known essayists, respectively, in UK and US. Write out their names and give a brief introduction to them.(1 x 10 =10 points)

问答题But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential. I[Nick]found myself on Gatsby"s side, and alone. From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe to West Egg Village, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me.

问答题Please analyze the following poem.(10 points)Fire and IceSome say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I"ve tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.