Language reflects sexism in society. Language itself is not sexist， just as it is not obscene; but it can connote sexist attitudes as well as attitudes about social taboos or racism.
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Language reflects sexism in society. Language itself is not sexist， just as it is not obscene; but it can connote sexist attitudes as well as attitudes about social taboos or racism.
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第1题：
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Successful people in international business understand the cultures of other countries and learn to change their practices in different cultures. They understand the importance of avoiding business decisions based on misconceptions-mistaken ideas.
One cause of misconceptions is ethnocentrism, the belief that one’s own culture’s way of doing things is better than the way of other cultures. It’s ethnocentrism that leads to failure in international business. To avoid ethnocentrism, it’s necessary to study the different elements(组成部分) of culture language, values and attitudes, and customs and manners.
Language
A knowledge of the local language can help international business people in four ways. First, people can communicates directly. Second, people are usually more open in their communication
With someone who speaks their language. Third, an understanding of the language allows people to infer meanings that are not said directly. Finally, knowing the language helps people to understand the culture better.
Values and Attitudes
Values are people’s basic beliefs about the difference between right and wrong, good and bad. An attitude is way of thinking or acting. Values and attitudes influence international business. For
Example, many people in the United States believe that chocolate from Switzerland is better than chocolate from other countries, and they buy a lot of it.
Customs and Manners
Customs are common social practices. Manners are ways of acting that the society believes are polite. For example, in the United States, it is custom to have salad(色拉) before the main course at dinner, not after. It’s not acceptable to talk with food in mouth at table. Failure to understand the customs and manners of other countries will bring difficulty selling their products. Orange juice as a breakfast drink of an American company in France doesn’t sell well because the French don’t usually drink juice with breakfast.
57. A knowledge of the local language allows international business people __________.
A. to be more open with their customers
B. to communicate without outside help
C. to express their thoughts indirectly
D. to have a better idea of their own culture
正确答案：D
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第2题：
The language, used to talk about language, is called __________.
A、metalanguage
B、artificial language
C、natural language
D、language
参考答案：A
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第3题：
factors that have an impact on students’ second language learning include all the options listed below except _________.A. students’ cooking skills
B. the country’s language policy
C. social-cultural factors
D. society’ attitudes toward the target language
正确答案是:A
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第4题：
Scholars maintain that social development can easily _____ language changes.
A. bring forward
B. bring about
C. bring out
D. bring up
正确答案：B -
第5题：
Which of the following helps assess language performances?A.Asking students to reflect on what activities attract them most.
B.Asking students about their attitudes towards a certain game.
C.Asking students to draw pictures according to description.
D.Asking the students to do a quiz at the end of the lesson.答案：D解析：本题考查教学评价。
根据题干中的关键词“assess language performances”，评价语言成果可知，D选项，要求学生在一节课的结尾做测验。综上，D选项正确。
A选项，要求学生反思哪些活动最能吸引他们。不合题意，故排除。
B选项，向学生询问一下他们对某一游戏的态度。不合题意，故排除。
C选项，要求学生根据教师描述画图，不合题意，故排除。
故正确选项为D。 -
第6题：
The language used to describe the language itself is called__________.A．paralanguage
B．special language
C．metalanguage
D．interlanguage答案：C解析：考查语言学中的基本概念。现代逻辑学家把谈论语言本身的语言称为元语言(metalanguage)，故选C。其他三项，paralanguage“副语言”，指与话语同时或单独使用的手势、身势、面部表情和距离等，这些也能表示某种意义，一般有配合语言加强表达能力的作用；speciallanguage“特殊(专业)语言”；interlanguage“中介语”．是指在第二语言习得过程中．学习者通过一定的学习策，在目的语输入的基础上所形成的一种既不同于其第一语言也不同于目的语．随着学习的进展向目的语逐渐过渡的动态的语言系统。 -
第7题：
共用题干
Some Things We Know About Language
Many things about language are a mystery,and many will always remain so.But some things we do know.
First,we know that all human beings have a language of some sort. There is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language,no set of speech sounds by which the people communicate with one another. Furthermore,in historical times,there has never been a race of men without a language.
Second,there is no such thing as a primitive language.There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped,who are,as we say,uncivilized,but the languages they speak are not primitive .In all known languages we can see complexities that must have been tens of thousands of years in developing.
This has not always been well understood;indeed,the direct contrary has often been stated.
Popular ideas of the language of the American Indians will illustrate.Many people have supposed that the Indians communicated in a very primitive system of noises.Study has proved this to be nonsense .There are,or were,hundreds of American Indian languages,and all of them turn out to be very complicated and very old.They are certainly different from the languages that most of us are familiar with,but they are no more primitive than English and Greek.
A third thing we know about language is that all languages are perfectly adequate. That is, each one is a perfect means of expressing the culture of the people who speak the language.
Finally,we know that language changes.It is natural and normal for language to change;the only languages which do not change are the dead ones.This is easy to understand if we look backward in time.Change goes on in all aspects of language.Grammatical teatures change as do speech sounds,and changes in vocabulary are sometimes very extensive and may occur very rap-idly. Vocabulary is the least stable part of any language.The author has used American Indian languages as an example to show that they are______.
A: just as old as some well-known languages
B: just as sophisticated as some well-known languages
C: more developed than some well-known languages
D: more complex than some well-known languages答案：B解析：作者在第二段中认为，任何人种不管落后与否都有语言。文中的原句是：There is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language…
此题的答案来自第三段。
作者列举美国印第安人的语言的目的是证明这些语言和一些著名的语言一样先进。原句是：They are certainly different from the languages that most of us are familiar with,but they are no more primitive than English and Greek.
根据第五段“That is,each one… who speak the language.”可知，B项正确。
词汇是语言中最容易发生变化的部分。文中的原句是：Vocabulary is the least stable part of any language. -
第8题：
Phatic communication refers to( ).A.language’s function of the expression of identity
B.social interaction of language
C.language′s function of expressing it self
D.sociological use of language答案：B解析：语言学基本概念。Phatic Communion(交际性谈话)指的是语言的社会交际功能。例如，我们径常说一些诸如God bless you！等礼节性的寒暄之语。 -
第9题：
Language reflects sexism in society. Language itself is not sexist， just as it is not obscene; but it can connote sexist attitudes as well as attitudes about social taboos or racism.
A对
B错
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第10题：
Sociolinguistics is the study of language in relation to society.
正确答案:正确 -
第11题：
判断题Social changes can often bring about language changes.A对
B错
正确答案： 错解析： 暂无解析 -
第12题：
单选题In line 99, natural science, social science and philosophy are mentioned as examples of disciplines that ______.Amutually accepted a single theory of how language is acquired
Bquestioned the need to study cognitive science as a separate discipline
Cregarded an understanding of language acquisition to be beyond the scope of the scientific method
Ddid not put enough resources into the study of language acquisition
Edisagreed about the manner in which human languages should be studied
正确答案： E解析：
文中提到自然科学，社会科学和哲学三门学科几乎在语言能力是天生还是后天习得的达成一致（99-100行）。换句话说，它们就语言习得理论有共同看法。 -
第13题：
Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism which, in its strongest form, states that language imprisons the mind, and that the grammatical patterns in a language can produce far-reaching consequences for the culture of a society.
正确答案：Whorf进而相信某种类似语言决定论的观点，其极端说法是：语言禁锢思维，语言的语法结构能对一个社会的文化产生深远的影响。 -
第14题：
The language used to talk about language is called .
A、special language
B、local language
C、metalanguage
D、human language
参考答案：C
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第15题：
We often speak of language as a vehicle of expression a metaphor that can illumine many aspects of our foreign language teaching situation, Language is a vehicle of meaning that we do not even realize we are using,in other words, a vehicle that is transporting a person's message somewhere but is not itself the object of the trip.
正确答案：我们经常说语言是一种工具，这种比喻可以启发我们在外语教学的许多方面，语言是我们甚至没有意识到的、正在使用的工具。换言之，语言这个工具是将人们的信息传递到别的地方，而语言并不是这个“旅程”的目的。
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第16题：
Sometimes a personal statement can be perfectly well written in terms of language and grammar, but disastrous in lacking punch or impact and in being totally off the mark concerning what it chooses to present about the applicant.()
正确答案:对
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第17题：
If the function of language is limited to communication, then animals' calls can also be called language, but actually they are not. Compared with traffic light system, language is far more complicated and resourceful. This reflects that language has the feature of__________.A.arbitrariness
B.finiteness
C.creativity
D.displacement答案：C解析：考查语言学知识。如果语言的功能仅限于交流，那么动物的叫声也可以称作语言，但事实并非如此。交通灯系统仅能传递简单的信息，而语言则要比这复杂的多。所有这些都是因为语言的二重性和递归性使得人类可以创造出数量无限的句子来传递无限的信息，这都体现了语言的创造性，故选C。 -
第18题：
Which of the following statements about language is NOT true?A.Language is a system
B.Language is symbol
C.Animals also have language
D.Language is arbitrary答案：C解析：本题考查语言的定义。
本题要求选不正确的，C选项，动物也有语言，错误。语言是人类在交际中使用的一套任意的声音符号系统。动物没有语言，动物只是本能发出声音。综上，应选C。
A选项，系统的，故排除。
B选项，符号，故排除。
D选项，任意的，故排除。
故正确答案为C项。 -
第19题：
共用题干
Some Things We Know About Language
Many things about language are a mystery,and many will always remain so.But some things we do know.
First,we know that all human beings have a language of some sort. There is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language,no set of speech sounds by which the people communicate with one another. Furthermore,in historical times,there has never been a race of men without a language.
Second,there is no such thing as a primitive language.There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped,who are,as we say,uncivilized,but the languages they speak are not primitive .In all known languages we can see complexities that must have been tens of thousands of years in developing.
This has not always been well understood;indeed,the direct contrary has often been stated.
Popular ideas of the language of the American Indians will illustrate.Many people have supposed that the Indians communicated in a very primitive system of noises.Study has proved this to be nonsense .There are,or were,hundreds of American Indian languages,and all of them turn out to be very complicated and very old.They are certainly different from the languages that most of us are familiar with,but they are no more primitive than English and Greek.
A third thing we know about language is that all languages are perfectly adequate. That is, each one is a perfect means of expressing the culture of the people who speak the language.
Finally,we know that language changes.It is natural and normal for language to change;the only languages which do not change are the dead ones.This is easy to understand if we look backward in time.Change goes on in all aspects of language.Grammatical teatures change as do speech sounds,and changes in vocabulary are sometimes very extensive and may occur very rap-idly. Vocabulary is the least stable part of any language.Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
A: A language can express many cultures.
B: All languages can well express their respective cultures.
C: American Indian languages are not as sophisticated as English.
D: Some languages are better than other languages.答案：B解析：作者在第二段中认为，任何人种不管落后与否都有语言。文中的原句是：There is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language…
此题的答案来自第三段。
作者列举美国印第安人的语言的目的是证明这些语言和一些著名的语言一样先进。原句是：They are certainly different from the languages that most of us are familiar with,but they are no more primitive than English and Greek.
根据第五段“That is,each one… who speak the language.”可知，B项正确。
词汇是语言中最容易发生变化的部分。文中的原句是：Vocabulary is the least stable part of any language. -
第20题：
Firth insisted that the object of linguistics is ( )A.language itself
B.language in actual use
C.language variation
D.language skills答案：B解析：语言学家及其代表理论。Firth是伦敦学派的代表人物，他认为语言学研究的对象应该是实际使用中的语言。 -
第21题：
The（）approach to language study is concerned with language as an instrument of social interaction rather than as a system that is viewed in isolation.
functional
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第22题：
Social changes can often bring about language changes.
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第23题：
判断题Language reflects sexism in society. Language itself is not sexist， just as it is not obscene; but it can connote sexist attitudes as well as attitudes about social taboos or racism.A对
B错
正确答案： 对解析： 暂无解析