问答题c)If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you"ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don" t feel like going into it. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two haemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. They" re quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. They" re nice and all—I" m not saying that—but they" re also touchy as bell. Besides, I" m not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything. I"ll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy.

问答题How much does our language influence the way we think? How deeply do language and culture interpenetrate and influence one another? These questions about language have fascinated thinkers throughout the ages. For example, Johann Gottfried Herder and Wilhelm von Humboldt in the German Romantic tradition regarded language as a prisma or grid spread over things in the world so that each language reflects a different worldview. Write a short essay to explain your position on this view. (北外2004研)

问答题CAI and CAL (武汉大学2008研)

问答题Granny Weatherall(in The Jilting of Granny Weatherall)

问答题Describe the belief of the transcendentalists in American history. Who are the main representatives of transcendentalism?

问答题Slaughterhouse Five

问答题Linguistic determinism

问答题John Keats

问答题A number interesting word-formation processes can be discerned in the following examples. Can you identify what is going on in these?(a) The deceased's cremains were scattered over the hill.(b) He's always taking pills, either uppers or downers. (上海交通大学2007研)

问答题The other students and she felt unprepared when tested on facts not learned in class.

问答题What are the major external factors that affect the process of L2 learning?(10 points)

问答题descriptive adequacy

问答题What are the main branches of linguistics? Please identify three branches and explain them briefly.

问答题IntheEnglishspeakingworld,thereisvariationintheuseof"-ing"inwordssuchasmorning,andlaughing.Thevariantsare—thestandardvariant—and[in],anonstandardvariant.Thefollowingtableshowstheresultsofastudywhichinvestigatedwhetherthesexofaddresserhadaneffectonwhichvariantwasusedbytwoinformantswhentheygreetedpeoplewith"Morning,orGoodmorning".Howwouldyouaccountforthesefindings?(20points)

问答题Efforts to provide professional trauma counseling assume that trauma is the main psychosocial issue following the earthquake. (1) In fact, however, trauma is only a small part of a wide array of psychosocial issues that ought to be addressed. For many earthquake survivors, the main issue is not traumatic memories of the earthquake but stresses associated with their current living situation. These stresses include the lack of safety and security, the loss of livelihood, lack of appropriate shelter, changes in family relations, threats of and exposure to gender-based violence, substance abuse, and uncertainties about the future. Because these stresses are holistic, they require comprehensive support that goes beyond trauma counseling. (2) Inherently, the support needed is social rather than psychological and includes such things as normalizing life by reestablishing daily activities such as working for parents and education for children, protection from rape and other forms of gender-based violence, the development of livelihood, and the strengthening of community networks of social support. However, it is not just the kind of support--social or psychological--that makes a difference. Across humanitarian sectors, the way in which relief is provided has a strong impact on psychosocial well-being. A common error is to view earthquake survivors as passive victims who need to be taken care of or healed by outsiders. (3) In the present emergency, the most effective means of providing psychosocial support is through a process of community mobilization and empowerment wherein communities make their own decisions and develop their own systems of protection, care, and support for survivors. When communities make choices about how to move forward, they reestablish a sense of control that is a powerful antidote to feelings of being overwhelmed. (4) As they engage in collective planning and action, they gain a sense of hope for the future and move out of the victim"s role they too often ate cast into. (5) Psychosocial support is not mainly something done to or for people by psychologists or psychiatrists but a process of local people activating their own social support for their collective well-being and positive future. Taking heed of this key point, the emphasis in earthquake response should be on social interventions that empower local people. At best, trauma counseling is a very small part of the much wider array of support that will help victims get on with their lives.

问答题John Steinbeck

问答题Some comments on the following statement based on your own experience:There exists a close relationship between language and culture. In other words, a successful master of a given language has much to do with an understanding of that culture. (武汉大学2007研)

问答题In each numbered line of the following text, there is one unnecessary word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the sense of the text. For each numbered line 1-10, find the unnecessary word and then write the word on your Answer Sheet. The following are two examples(0)and(00).0=[√]/ 00=are When to recruit?0 In a small business, deciding when to take on new staff is a delicate calculation. On 00 the one hand, if you are increase your workforce, you might find it difficult to cover【M11】for the increased costs straight away. On the other hand, extra staff could【M12】enable you to spend more time on activities such as marketing, which in the【M13】end should mean the increased profits. A useful way of deciding when to increase【M14】your workforce is to ask yourself if you can make enough of extra sales to meet【M15】the cost of taking on with an extra employee. But even if you are not able to【M16】increase your sales immediately, you may still be able to employ someone.【M17】In this such case, however, you must keep your business going until you have built【M18】your sales up to the new level you need. If in the end you are clever enough to【M19】Get your timing so right, you will not want to throw away your advantage by【M20】employing the wrong type person. The whole process of advertising and interviewing can take around many months, so finding you made a mistake and...

问答题Merchant of Venice