1. Your ticket. (2)Will you please show your ticket? (3)Your ticket, please. (4)Would you mind showing your ticket? Please arrange the above statements in an order of increasing degrees of formality and politeness.
5. Eskimo tribes commonly have as many as seven different words for snow while certain African cultures in the equatorial forest of Zaire have no word for snow. Such phenomenon shows that ______.
13. The red color is usually associated with celebrations and joyful occasions in English speaking countries and in China, which can be seen in the following expressions EXCEPT "______".
A.a red letter day
B.waving a red flag
C.painting the town red
D.the red carpet
A B C D
B
[解析] 无论是在讲英语的国家还是在中国,红色都常与庆祝和喜庆场合相联系,如“a red letter day(节日)”“paint the town red(狂欢)”“the red carpet(隆重欢迎)”等;而当红色与某种感情相联系时就是另外一层意思,如Waving a red flag表示“做令人发怒的事”。
14. When writing the address, the English speaker starts with ______.
A.the biggest unit and ends with the room number
B.the name of the city and ends with the country
C.the smallest unit and moves to the bigger ones and finally to the biggest unit, the country
D.the name of the country and then writes in a random order
19. "The little parcel of light of one particular frequency in which radiant energy is delivered is sometimes called a 'light dart', but is more generally known as a photon." The above sentence shows that in English for science and technology, there is frequent use of ______."
26. If you are ordering two hamburgers in McDonald's, you're likely to say that you want two hamburgers and at the same time hold up two fingers to signify "two". This nonverbal message fulfills the function of ______.
A.complementing
B.repeating
C.contradicting
D.substituting
A B C D
B
[解析] 重复功能是指起到重复语言信息,功能的非语言信息在语言信息不存在时可以单独起作用。题干中例句的非语言信息“hold up two fingers”和语言信息“want two hamburgers”相互重复。
27. The ______ refers to royal or very noble rank.
30. The gesture of thumb down (with one's arm crooked in front of the body and thumb stretched downward while the other fingers making a fist)is the nonverbal way to say ______.
31. The English speakers prefer ______, as is shown by the sentence "The young man sitting between Mary and John is the editor of our campus newspaper".
A.branching sentence patterns
B.linear sentence patterns
C.holistic thinking pattern
D.indirect thinking pattern
A B C D
A
[解析] 英语多采用分支句型,汉语多采用线性句型,题干中的例句反映的就是英语中的分支句型。
32. As human territory sense is concerned, "mother's kitchen" can be classified into ______ territory.
35. But this is an odd thing, though he's impulsive, he's as stubborn as a ______.
A.mule
B.cow
C.horse
D.pig
A B C D
A
[考点] 本题主要考查明喻的跨文化异同。 [解析] 在西方国家中,骡子要为主人干重活。很自然,负重的牲畜并非永远乐于干重活,因此西方国家的人们把骡子看成最犟的家畜。在中国农村地区,牛是主要的驮物家畜,所以中国人把牛看成是倔犟的家畜。as stubborn as a mule对应的中文意思是“像牛一样犟”。
36. From the sentence "He is the father of modern biology", we can see that English speaking people compare ideas to ______.
A.food
B.people
C.plants
D.love
A B C D
B
[解析] “He is the father of modern biology.(他是现代生物学之父。)”反映的是有关“观念”的隐喻,它把观念比喻成人。
37. "______" is inappropriate as a reply to an apology.
A.It's OK.
B.It's all right.
C.Not at all.
D.Never mind.
A B C D
C
[考点] 本题主要考查对致歉的应答。 [解析] 在对抱歉做出应答时,最常用的说法是It's OK, It's all right, Never mind等。因此C项不正确。
38. Which of the following does NOT belong to nonverbal communication systems?
39. "Oil is a natural substance. When it is obtained from the oil well and refined into petrol, it becomes a cultural product." From the above example, we can see that culture is a ______ phenomenon.