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单选题

The old couple have been married for 40 years and never once _______ with each other.

A
theyhadquarreled
B
theyhavequarreled
C
havetheyquarreled
D
hadtheyquarreled

题目答案

C

答案解析

本题考查的是倒装结构的用法。第二分句中因有否定副词never提前,故应用倒装结构;第一分句中的havebeenmarried已限定了时态,据此可排除D项。

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单选题

Country life is better than city life ________ it offers fresh air and noiseless environment

A
inthat
B
asthat
C
asfor
D
inwhich

题目答案

A

答案解析

A在于,原因是,在…方面C.关于,至于应用举例:Ilikethecountrybetterinthatitisclosertonature.我更喜欢乡村,因为它更接近自然。

单选题

He talked a lot about things and persons ________they remembered in the school.

A
which
B
that
C
whom
D
what

题目答案

B

答案解析

things和persons是先行词.当定语从句要修饰的先行词是既表示人,又表示物的名词时,其关系代词要用that

单选题

I was writing a report last night; ________ I would not have stayed up late.

A
however
B
otherwise
C
therefore
D
furthermore

题目答案

B

答案解析

我昨天晚上写一个报告,否则我就不会熬夜了。考查副词词义选择题。A然而,不过B否则,要不然C因此,所以D再者,而且

单选题

By "language acquisition is primarily the acquistion of the grammatical system of language", linguists mean that ______.

A
everyspecificruleallowedbythegrammaticalsystemofalanguagemustbeacquired
B
thephonologicalrulesmustbeacquired
C
thesyntacticrulesmustbeacquired
D
thegeneralprinciplesthatarefundamentaltothegrammaticalityofspeechmustbeacquired

题目答案

D

答案解析

当我们说语言的习得基本上是语言的语法系统习得的时候,我们并不是说语言的语法系统内的每一个具体的规则都需要习得。实际上,儿童习得的是使言语合乎语法规范所必需的一些具有普遍意义的规则。我们注意到,在生成话语时,儿童倾向使用普遍的语法规则,而排斥个别的不规则的情况。

单选题

Lying under the skull, the human brain contains an average of ten billion nerve cells called ______.

A
nervefibers
B
nerves
C
neurons
D
cerebralcortex

题目答案

C

答案解析

人的大脑位于头盖骨之下,平均包括100亿个被称为神经元的神经细胞。每个神经元至少和一千到一万个其他的神经元相联系。这些神经参与着数不胜数的微电路性质的活动。这些活动使得感知、思维、交流及其他类型的智力活动成为可能。

单选题

______ moves on a scale of the national language, dialects, and individual ways of communication.

A
Languagechange
B
Speechvariety
C
Speechvariation
D
Speechchange

题目答案

C

答案解析

言语的变异总是以国语、方言以及不同的个体交际语言等形式来进行。从社会语言学的角度来看,一种言语变体无非是一种语言的方言变体而已。

单选题

Modern English words man, woman, child, eat, fight, etc, originate from ______.

A
MiddleEnglish
B
OldEnglish
C
French
D
NormanFrench

题目答案

B

答案解析

古英语可以追溯到公元5世纪中叶,当时说英语的盎格鲁一撒克逊人从北欧入侵了不列颠群岛。英语中绝大多数基本单词均来自古英语,比如man,woman,Child,house等。

单选题

______ of a sentence depends on the context in which the sentence is uttered.

A
Sentencemeaning
B
Utterancemeaning
C
Thereference
D
Themeaning

题目答案

B

答案解析

话语意义基于句子意义,是句子意义在特定交际情景或者语境中的具体体现。也就是说,句子的话语意义依靠的是说该句子的语境或情景。

单选题

Bloomfield drew on ______ psychology when trying to define the meaning of linguistic forms.

A
contextual
B
conceptualist
C
behaviorist
D
naming

题目答案

C

答案解析

布龙菲尔德在试图定义词汇意义时采用了行为主义心理学观点。

单选题

The syntactic rules of any language are ______ in number.

A
large
B
small
C
finite
D
infinite

题目答案

C

答案解析

对于任何一种自然语言,一套句法规则可以产生出无穷多的句子,也就是说,任何语言的句法规则都是有限的,而说话人能够说出和理解的句子的数量是无限的。