2003年1月广东自考语言与文化真题00838

广东省2003年1月高等教育自学考试

语言与文化试题

课程代码：00838

第一部分  选择题

Ⅰ.Each of the following 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.Language is (     ),which means that speech is the primary medium of language.

  A.arbitrary                 B.vocal

  C.symbolic                  D.human specific

2.“A pond of flesh" is derived from Shakespeare's (     )

  A.Romeo and Juliet                B.Anthony and Cleopatra

  C.The Merchant of Venice          D.King Lear

3.“A greenhorn" in English refers to (     )

  A.a horn in the color of green

  B.a foolish person

  C.a simple and inexperienced person

  D.a jealous person

4.Analogy is often made in English between (     ) and people who are rude or hot-tempered people with high intelligence or remarkable power of endurance.

  A.bears                 B.horses

  C.monkeys              D.foxes

5.(     ) words emerged to classify things,for instance,direction,time,quantity and quality while function words indicate the relationship between things.

  A.Common                B.Good

  C.Content               D.Gesture

6.The English speaking people are direct,so(     )

  A.they reason from the particular to the general,from parts to the whole,or from the small to the big.

B.they reason from the general to the particular,from the whole to the part,from the big to the small.

  C.they prefer the information structure in which the more important information precedes the less important information.

D.they prefer the information structure in which the less information precedes the more important information.

7.(     ) is the leader of the British government.

  A.Prime Minister                B.Queen

  C.President                     D.Governor

8.“Visitors should go up the stairs at once" is a (     ) style of language.

  A.frozen                B.formal

  C.consultative           D.casual

9.The English idiom “to be all thumbs" means(     )

  A.to be clumsy                B.to be important

  C.to be rich                  D.to be proud