听力原文:W: Harry! What's the matter? You look pale. Are you sick?
M: I just had a terrible experience. I was crossing the street just now and was almost hit by a car. Fortunately I jumped back in time.
Q: What happened to Harry just now?
(17)
A. He just came back from a flight.
B. He was frightened by a terrorist.
C. He was almost hit by a car.
D. He witnessed a traffic accident.
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.
听力原文:W: Well, Jack, I would offer you another drink but I have guests coming and I haven't begun to prepare the dinner. Thanks for stopping by.
M: Thanks for the drink. It has been nice seeing you, too.
Q: Why does the woman mention her dinner guests?
(12)
A. To invite the man to join them.
B. To ask him to help cook.
C. To suggest politely that he leave.
D. To encourage him to have another drink.
听力原文:W: Tom, could I bother you for a moment? I need someone to return this book to the library for me.
M: That's no bother at all. I'm on my way there now.
Q: What will the man probably do next?
(14)
A. Stop bothering the woman.
B. Take the woman's book with him.
C. Show the woman how to get to the library.
D. Ask someone else to go to the library.
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
What is the relation between the code and culture which creates it, and which it transmits to the next generation? ~Linguists in the anthropological tradition had tried to establish links with meanings expressed lexically: Eskimo words for 'snow', Arabic words for 'camel' and so on. Yet vocabulary only 'reflects' culture by courtesy of its internal organization as a whole; and the assertion that "because 'camels' are important to the Arabs, therefore they have a lot of different words for 'them' "is a statement as much about English as about Arabic. Presumably nothing is more important than rice to the Chinese; yet Chinese has a single word for rice and it means various other things besides. Chinese happens to be a type of language that favors general nouns.
As the essential medium for people to organize and convey their ideas, language is no longer what it seemed to be for the traditional linguists who used to think of language as simple for mal codes. It is also closely related to the context, social or anthropological, in which the communication takes place. Today most linguists come to realize that language is an important component of culture. It determines not only tile form. in which ideas are transmitted, but also the method with which the content of the ideas are organized. In this perspective, language is also a communicative base on which members of a speech community form. their ideas in a way that is readily comprehensible to other members of that community. It is also regarded as part of culture that is related to other fields of humanity(人类)studies.
But what is merely cornic(滑稽)when applied to lexics(词汇学)becomes seriously misleading when applied to grammar. As Whorf pointed 50 years ago, it is naive and dangerous to take isolated grammatical phenomena and try to relate them to features of a culture. When linguists recognized this, their response was to avoid the language/culture issue altogether, thus closing the door on an important area of research. That there is a relationship between a code and the culture that engenders(造成)it is beyond question; but it is an extremely complex and abstract one.
The first paragraph mainly discusses ______.
A. the early history of human language
B. how important words are in the cultural issue
C. the way in which people name different things
D. the relation between language and culture on the lexical level