自考语言与文化试题_全国2009年1月自考试卷

全国2009年1月自考语言与文化试题

课程代码：00838
I.Each of the following incomplete statements is followed by four alternatives. Read each statement and the four alternatives carefully and decide which of the four alternatives best completes the statement. (20%)
1. There is no ______ relationship between words and their meanings. (     )
A. optional B. arbitrary
C. sensible  D. logical
2. It is suggested that most emotional information is conveyed by ______rather than language per se. (     )
A. silent language  B. verbal interaction
C. body language  D. attitudinal communication
3. A hot, freshly cooked sausage sandwiched in a split roll of bread is called ______.
(     )
A. hamburger  B. sandwich
C. hot dog  D. pudding
4. “A Chauvinist pig” refers to a person who believes that women are ______. (     )
A. inferior  B. sociable
C. frail  D. prone to tears
5. English is often said to be grammatically ______because English uses frequently inflectional morphemes to indicate the grammatical relations between linguistic elements. (     )
A. paratactic  B. hypotactic
C. explicit  D. implicit
6.“他住在美国马萨诸塞州剑桥神德街2号”can be translated into ______.（     ）
A. He lives at Divinity Avenue 2, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
B. He lives at Divinity Avenue 2 in Cambridge of Massachusetts, U.S.A.
C. He lives at 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
D. He lives in U.S.A., Massachusetts, Cambridge, 2 Divinity Avenue.

7. When people shake hands, ______. (     )
A. both men and women usually take off their gloves before they shake hands
B. men usually take off gloves before they shake hands
C. neither men nor women take off gloves
D. men extend their hands first
8. Which statement is the best response to use when an English speaker refuses the compliment which merely comes out of politeness?(     )
A. Oh, I wish it could be true.  B. Do you really think so?
C. Oh, you are too polite.   D. No, I don’t think so.
9. The bus stopped. He got off the bus.
The above sentences are related ______. (     )
A. hypotactically  B. paratactially
C. in a parallel way  D. unreasonably
10. The weather cleared just as the party approached the summit. Until then they had seen nothing of the panorama around them.
The logical relationship between the above sentences is______.(     )
A. additive  B. adversative
C. causal  D. temporal
11. The equivalent American English expression for “私立学校” is______. (     )
A. publish school  B. private school
C. primary school  D. high school
12. The Chinese meaning of “Mercury” is ______.(     )
A.水星  B.金星
C. 火星  D. 木星
13. What nonverbal message does waving good-bye convey? (     )
 A. Accenting  B. Complementing
C. Repeating  D. Substituting
14. Nonverbal communication conveys ______. (     )
 A. feeling  B. meaning
C. action  D. anger
15. ______is synonymous to “to keep out of trouble.”(     )
A. “To keep one’s nose clean”  B. “To mind one’s p’s and q’s”
C. “To keep a straight face”   D. “To ride on one’s high horse”
16. ______alludes to an idealistic and impractical person.(     )
A. Romeo  B. Don Quixote
C. Don Juan  D. Cinderella
17. “Aaron’s rod” is derived from ______. (     )
A. Roman mythology  B. sports
C. the Bible   D. English poetry
18. A market using underhand but not strictly illegal methods for selling scarce goods at high prices is often referred to as______. (     )
A. a black market  B. a blue market
C. a purple market  D. a grey market
19. “Human resources development”, as a euphemism, may simply mean ______ .(     )
A. unemployment  B. population growth
C. a good market   D. the aging process
20. ______is often used as a title for the children of certain British noblemen and for various government officials.  (     )
 A. Excellency  B. Honourable
C. Majesty  D. Royal
II. Each of the following incomplete statements is followed by four alternatives. Read each statement and the four alternatives carefully and decide which alternative can complete the statement. There might be more than one correct answer. (10%)
21. Language is ______.
A. an instrument used in the communication of thought
B. the function of the human brain
C. closely related to thinking
D. nonverbal from the very beginning
22. Conceptual meaning refers to ______content.(     )
A. cognitive  B. stylistic
C. associative  D. logical
23. Which of the following statements are true to the nature of grammatical morpheme?
 (     )
A. There are more grammatical morphemes in Chinese than in English.
B. English has been losing its grammatical morpheme and becoming more and more similar to Chinese.
C. Grammatical subjects and objects occur more frequently in English than in Chinese.
D. In English, if the context makes clear what the subjects and objects are, they do not have to occur.
24. When English speakers accept an invitation, they may reply with“______”.
  (     )
A. That’s very kind of you. Thank you.
B. That would be very nice. Thank you.
C. Thank you very much. I’ll try to come.
D. I’ll go if I am free.
25. In a normal text sentences are connected ______.(     )
A. hypotactically  B. paratactially
C. in a parallel way  D. unreasonably
26. The English equivalent for “运动鞋” is ______.(     )
A. sneakers  B. snakes
C. gym shoes  D. leather shoes
27. “Wagging one’s forefinger” is used to______. (     )
A. warn others not to do something
B. greet others
C. arouse others’ interest
D. indicate what others are doing is wrong
28. “To keep one’s own company” means everything below BUT “____”. (     )
A. to do one’s own business
B. to have friends around
C. to be not mixed with others
D. to care for only one’s own company
29. The metaphor that “Ideas are food” can be illustrated by _____. (     )
A. “This is the meaty part of the paper”
B. “His ideas will live on forever”
C. “I just can’t swallow that claim”
D. “Let me stew over that for a while”
30. In English culture _____are normally a taboo topics. (     )
A. age and income  B. clothes and artifacts
C. political beliefs  D. religious beliefs
III. Fill in each underlined space with a proper expression. (20%)
31. Language is the carrier and ______of culture.
32. Each language represents a ______of meaning that is different from any other such systems.
33. English speakers are direct people who tend to locate ______meaning before peripheral meaning.
34. In informal situations English speakers tend to address others by using their______ names.
35. Hypotactic relations at the sentential level refer to constructions whose components are linked through the use of______.
36. In American English, the letters “er” in the word “clerk” are pronoun