问答题Give the importance of mobility in the ideological underpinnings of America, it is hardly surprising to find that American literature has from its beginnings been"a literature of movement, of motion, its great icons the track through forest and superhighway. " Please name one novel from the canonical American literature to elaborate on the theme of mobility.

问答题Diglossia (南开大学2010研)

问答题Benjy(from; The Sound and the Fury)

问答题Words in our mental lexicon are known to be related to one another. Discuss the relationships between words, using examples from the English language. (北外2003研)

问答题American Puritanism

问答题Violation of maxims (北交大2006研)

问答题Writers or poets are often lumped together as a group for the same artistic assertion they share or the same significant social event(s)they are influenced by. The Lost Generation is a particular term referring to the writers and artists who spoke for the young people that came of age during and shortly after the First World War, alternatively known as the World War I generation. Please describe the characteristics of " The Lost Generation" with references to writers and literary works.

问答题Essay Question.(10 points)Compare and discuss the main characteristics of subjects in English and Chinese.

问答题What is Contrastive Analysis(in Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching)?

问答题This passage is an excerpt from Ernest Hemingway"s short story "The Killer". Read it and answer the following questions:"Talk to me, bright boy," Max said. "What do you think is going to happen?" George did not say anything."I"ll tell you," Max said, "We"re going to kill a Swede. Do you know a big Swede named Ole Andreson?" "Yes.""He comes here to eat every night. Doesn"t he?" "Sometimes he comes here," "He comes here at six o"clock, doesn"t he?""If he comes.""We know all that bright boy," Max said. "Talk about something else. Ever go to the movies?""Once in a while.""You ought to go to the movies more. The movies are fine for a bright boy like you." "What are you going to kill Ole Andreson for? What did he ever do to you?" "He never had a chance to do anything to U. S. He never even seen U. S." "And he"s only going to see U. S. once," Al said from the kitchen. "What are you going to kill him for, then?" George asked. "We"re killing him for a friend. Just to oblige a friend, bright boy." "Shut up," said Al from the kitchen. "You talk too goddamn much."

问答题Write a composition of no less than 300 words on the topic bellow: Employment Market Today

问答题Mansfield Park

问答题Translate the following passage into Chinese. Write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET.(20%) Discipline and Punish(1975)is a genealogical study of the development of the "gentler" modern way of imprisoning criminals rather than torturing or killing them. While recognizing the element of genuinely enlightened reform, Foucault particularly emphasizes how such reform also becomes a vehicle of more effective control: "to punish less, perhaps; but certainly to punish better". He further argues that the new mode of punishment becomes the model for control of an entire society, with factories, hospitals and schools modeled on the modern prison. We should not, however, think that the deployment of this model was due to the explicit decisions of some central controlling agency. In typically genealogical fashion, Foucault"s analysis shows how techniques and institutions, developed for different and often quite innocuous purposes converged to create the modern system of disciplinary power.

问答题reader-response criticism

问答题Tell the sense relation between a and b in each pair:（北二外2007研)

问答题Linguistic determinism（上海交大2007研)

问答题Translate the underlined parts of the following two passages into Chinese and write your Chinese versions on the ANSWER SHEET. 【F1】 I was slow to understand the deep grievances of women. This was because, as a boy, I had envied them. Before college, the only people I had ever known who were interested in art or music or literature, the only ones who read books, the only ones who ever seemed to enjoy a sense of ease and grace were the mothers and daughters. Like the menfolk, they fretted about money, they scrimped and made-do. But, when the pay stopped coming in, they were not the ones who had failed. Nor did they have to go to war, and that seemed to me a blessed fact. They went to see neighbors, to shop in town, to run errands at school, at the library, at church. No doubt, had I looked harder at their lives, I would have envied them less. It was not my fate to become a woman, so it was easier for me to see the graces. Few of them held jobs outside the home, and those who did filled thankless roles as clerks and waitresses. I didn"t see, then, what a prison a house could be, since houses seemed to me brighter, handsomer places than any factory. I did not realize—because such things were never spoken of—how often women suffered from men"s bullying. I did learn about the wretchedness of abandoned lone men. Even then I could see how exhausting it was for a mother to cater all day to the needs of young children. But if I had been asked, as a boy, to choose between tending a baby and tending a machine, I think I would have chosen the baby. I would like to reflect on one of the oldest of human exercises, the process by which over the years, and indeed over the centuries, we have undertaken to get the poor off our conscience. 【F2】 Rich and poor have lived together, always uncomfortably and sometimes perilously, since the beginning of time. Plutarch was led to say, "An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of republics. " And the problems that arise from the continuing co-existence of affluence and poverty—and particularly the process by which good fortune is justified in the presence of the ill fortune of others—have been an intellectual preoccupation for centuries. They continue to be so in our own time. One begins with the solution proposed in the Bible; the poor suffer in this world but are wonderfully rewarded in the next. Their poverty is a temporary misfortune; if they are poor and also meek, they eventually will inherit the earth. This is, in some ways, an admirable solution. It allows the rich to enjoy their wealth while envying the poor their future fortune.

问答题What criteria are used for the classification of vowels?(10 points)

问答题How do you understand emotive function of language?

问答题Explain the purpose and significance of reconstruction in historical linguistics and the method employed by historical linguists.