全国高等教育自学考试语言与文化试题课程代码

全国2003年10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（共30分）

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%)

cold dish of raw vegetables with a dressing is called _____.

A. hamburger

B. sandwich

C. salad

D. pudding

languages have _____ terms and distinguish at least three characteristics in relatives.

A. generation

B. subtle

C. complicated

D. kinship

speakers are direct people who tend to _____.

A. locate peripheral meaning before central meaning

B. locate central meaning before central meaning

C. locate the modified after the modifier

D. think holistically

English all the prefixes are _____ morphemes.

A. inflectional

B. grammatical

C. derivational

D. implicit

of the following statements is not true

A. English speakers have a relatively small range of possibilities to select from when

naming their newly born babies.

B. English surnames are more distinctive than given names.

C. English given names are more distinctive than surnames.

D. Names include given names, surnames, full names and nicknames or pet names.

an English speaker refuses the compliment which merely comes out of politeness, he may say _____.

A.“Do you really think so”

B.“Oh, I wish it could be true.”

C.“Oh, you are too polite.”

D.“No, I don’t think so.”

7.“To make a cat laugh”means _____.

A. to be comic

B. to be tragic

C. to be proud

D. to be serious

English equivalent for “前车之覆，后车之鉴”can be “_____”.

A. Rats desert a sinking ship

small leak will sink a great ship

C. He that would sail without danger must never come on the main sea

D. Let another’s shipwreck be your seamark

9.“Green”connotes _____ in English culture.

A. Prosperity

B. immaturity

C. longevity

D. sincerity

10.“Brown paper”corresponds to _____.

A.棕色纸

B.秘密文件

C.揭露社会黑暗的报纸

D.牛皮纸

English equivalent for “空袭紧急警报”is _____.

A. blue alert

B. white alert

C. red alert

D. black alert

12.“Sanitary engineer”is the euphemistic expression for “_____”.

A. garbage collector

B. cleaner

C. plumber

D. gardener

13.“敬请指正”can be treated as the Chinese equivalent of “_____”in English.

A. I’d like to have your comments.

B. Will you please point out my errors

C. I’d like to have errors corrected

D. I’ll gratefully expect your comments.

the speaker or writer discusses many things indirectly related to the central idea of the text and /or to each other he or she develops the text in a(n) _____ fashion.

A .linear B. spiral

C. inductive

D. deductive

most striking phonetic difference between American and British English is the pronunciation of _____ in words.

A. r

B. a

C. wh

D. er

first _____ made in 449 . had strong impact on the laws made later in most European countries.

A. Roman law

B. Napoleonic Code

C. French law

D. British law

distance zone ranging from 4 inches to about 8 feet is referred so as the _____ zone. A. public B. intimate

C. socio-consultative

D. casual-personal

one’s open hand with palm down to one’s throat means “_____”in English culture.

A. Shame on you

B. I’m full

C. Kill yourself

D. You’re shorter than I

proxemics scholars are particularly interested in the _____ between interlocutors in interpersonal communication.