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2016年湖南农业大学考研真题811综合知识硕士招生自命题科目试题
2016年湖南农业大学硕士招生自命题科目试题科目名称及代码:811 综合知识适用专业:外国语言学及应用语言学考生需带的工具:考生注意事项:①所有答案必须做在答题纸上,做在试题纸上一律无效;②按试题顺序答题,在答题纸上标明题目序号。
一、解释题:从下面挑选5个术语进行简单解释并可根据需要举例说明(共计10分,每小题2分,多做依作答前5题记分)1. design features2. prescriptive linguistics3. assimilation4. inflection5. semantics6. trace theory7. speech act二、填空题:在下面每空填一个词,其中部分首字母已给出(共计10分,每空1分)1、In any language words can be used in new ways to mean new things and can be combined into innumerable sentences based on limited rules. This feature is usually termed P_________.2、P_________ function refers to expressions that help define and maintain interpersonal relations.3、If a single movement from one element to a second element of the tongue is involved, the combing vowels are called d_________.4. P_________ refers in the sound which is capable of distinguishing one word or one shape of word from another in a given language.5. B_________ is a reverse process of derivation, and therefore is a process of shortening.6. Phrase structure rules can generate an infinite number of sentences and sentences with infinite length, due to their r_________ properties.7. “Words are names of labels for things”. This view is called N_________ theory in semantic studies.8. While the meaning of a sentence is abstract and decontextualized, that of u_________ is concrete and context-dependent.9. C_________ are those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action.10. Such errors as “teached” and “womans” are caused by o_________.共4页第1页。
湖南农业大学考研试题811综合知识(2015~2017年)
2015年湖南农业大学硕士招生自命题科目试题科目名称及代码:综合知识 811适用专业:外国语言学及应用语言学考生需带的工具:考生注意事项:①所有答案必须做在答题纸上,做在试题纸上一律无效;②按试题顺序答题,在答题纸上标明题目序号。
Section A: Linguistics (60 points)I. Translate the following linguistic terms into English. (5 points, 1 point each)1.应用语言学2.音位变体3.述谓分析4.输入假设5.派生词素II. Define FIVE of the following terms, giving examples if necessary. (10 points,2 points each )1. Displacement2. Back clipping3. Minimal pair4.Morphological rule5. Perlocutionary act6. Sociolinguistics7. Subordinate constructionIII. Fill in each blank with a suitable term, with some of the initial letters given.(10 points, 1 point each)1. D___________ refers to an area of human activity in which one particularspeech variety or a combination of several speech varieties is regularly used,for instance, situations in which the persons talking to one another are members of the family, e.g. mother and children.2. B ___________is a process of word-formation in which a new word is formedby combing the meanings and sounds of two words, one of the which is not in its full form or both of which are not in their full forms, like brunch.3. H___________ structure is the sentence structure that group words into structuralconstituents and shows the syntactic category of each structural constituent, such as NP, VP and PP.4. M__________ is the branch of grammar that studies the internal structure ofwords, and the rules by which words are formed.5. C _________are those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker tosome future course of action.6. T___________ theory is a theory about trace left by movement. This theoryassumes that a moved constituent leaves behind a phonologically null element in its original site.7.P___________ are sentences that do not state a fact or describe a state and are notverifiable, in other words, they are utterances that perform an act.8. I___________ is the language system of an individual as expressed their way heor she speaks or writes within the overall system of a particular language.9. S___________ is the study of meaning communicated through language. Thebasic task is to show how people communicate meanings with pieces of language.10. A _________ phonetics studies the movement of the vocal organs of producingthe sounds of speech.IV. Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false. Write T for true and F for false. (15 points,1.5 points each )1. ()Duality is one of the characteristics of human language. It refers to the factthat language has two levels of structures: the system of sounds and thesystem of meanings.2. ()Saussurs’s exposition of synchronic analysis led to the school of historicallingusitics.3. ()Chomsky’s concept of linguistic performance is similar to Saussure’sconcept of parole, while his use of linguistic competence is somewhatdifferent from Saussure’s langue.4. ()If language learners are provided with sufficient and the right kind oflanguage exposure and chances to interact with language input, they willacquire the native-like competence in the target language.5. ()Syntactic category refers to all phrasal syntactic categories such as NP,VP,and PP, and word-level syntactic categories that serve as heads of phrasal syntactic categories such as N and V.6. ()Competence and performance refer respectively to a language user’sunderlying knowledge about the system of rules and the actual use of language in concrete situation.7. ()Two sentences using the same words may mean quite differently.8. ()Hyponymy is a matter of class membership, so it is the same as meronymy.9. ()Inviting, suggesting, warning, ordering are instances of commissives.10. ()The right ear advantage(REA)is true to no matter whether people havethe left hemispheric dominance for speech or the less common right hemispheric dominance for speech.V. Choose FIVE of the following questions to answer. (20 points,4 points each)1. Who put forward the concept of langue and parole? What is the differencebetween them?2. To what extent is phonology related to phonetics and how do they differ?3. Decide which way of word formation is used to form the following words.Motel lase ROM mew/miaow4. What is word? What is lexicon? What is lexeme? What is vocabulary?5. Can you make some comments on IC analysis?6. What is X-bar theory?7. What is discourse analysis?Section B: Translation (60 points)1.Translate the following into Chinese (30 points)The sublime paradox of the spiritual life is repeated in all true development of personal gift and power. In order to find his life a man must first lose it; in order to keep his soul a man must first give it. The beginning of all education is self-conscious; at the start every effect must be calculated, every skill, method, or dexterity carefully studied. Training involves a rigid account of oneself based on searching self-knowledge. To become an effective speaker one must know his defects of bearing, gesture, voice; one must bring his whole personality into clear light, and study it as if it were an external thing; one must become intensely self-conscious. The initiation to every art is through this door of rigid scrutiny of self and entire surrender of self to the discipline of minute study and exacting practice. The pianist knows the artistic value of every note, and strikes each note with carefully calculated effect. The artist gives himself up to a patient study of details, and is content with the monotony of laborious imitation; subjecting every element of material and manner to the most thorough analysis.The first stage in the education of the true worker is self-conscious; the final stage is self-forgetful. No man can enter the final stage without passing through the initial stage; no man can enter the final stage without leaving the initial stage behind him. One must first develop intense self-consciousness, and then one must be able to forget and obliterate himself. One must first accept the most exacting discipline of the school, and then one must forget that schools exist. The apprentice is the servant of detail; the master is the servant of the idea: the first accepts methods as if they were the finalities of art; the second uses them as mere instruments. Tennyson's attention was once called to certain very subtle vowel effects in one of his later poems; he promptly said that he had not thought of them. That was undoubtedly true, for he had become a master; but there was a time, in his days of apprenticeship, when he had studied the musical qualities and resources of words with the most searching intelligence. The transition from apprenticeship to mastery is accomplished when a man passes through self-consciousness into self-forgetfulness, when his knowledge and skill become so much a part of himself that they become instinctive. When the artist has gained, through calculation, study, and, practice, complete command of himself and his materials, he subordinates skill to insight, and makes his art the unconscious expression of his deepest nature. When this stage is reached the artist can pour his whole soul into his work almost instinctively; his skill and methods have become so completely a part of himself that he can use them almost without being conscious of them.2.Translate the following into English. (30 points)“诺诺”者,唯命是从,凡事好好好,是是是,逢人点头哈腰,遇事不辨青红皂白,正所谓“唯唯诺诺”。
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湖南大学2014年837英语语言文学基础二考试大纲
学科教学(英语)专业学生攻读硕士学位入学考试2014《考试大纲》科目名称:英语语言文学专业基础二本科目包括英语语言学基础、英美文学基础知识、英语国家概况、英汉互译四部分内容,总分150分,其中英语语言学基础50分、英美文学基础知识40分,英语国家概况30分,英汉互译30分。
英语语言学基础(50分)一、考试要求考生应全面掌握语言学主要分支学科的基本知识、基本理论和基本方法。
二、考试内容考生应掌握以下方面的内容:●导论:语言的定义、特征、功能,语言学的主要分支学科,语言学中描写与规定、共时与历时、语言和言语、能力与表现等概念。
●语音与音系:语音的发生与感知、发音器官、语音的描写、协同发音、音位理论、音位变体、音系规则、区别特征、音节和重音。
●词汇:词的概念,词的构成,词的变化。
●句法:传统语法、结构语法、生成语法、功能语法的基本概念和基本方法。
●语义和语用:语义和语用的基本概念和基本理论,语义关系、语义演变、言语行为理论、合作原则。
●语言和社会:语言与文化的关系,语言的社会变体。
●第一及第二语言习得:基本概念、主要研究方法和领域等三、考试题型填空题、名词解释题、简答题、论述题。
四、参考书目《新编简明英语语言学教程》,戴炜栋、何兆熊主编,上海外语教育出版社,2002英美文学基础知识(40分)一、考试要求本部分考试旨在考查考生对有关英美文学的基本概念、主要流派、基础知识的理解和掌握情况,以及运用所学的基础理论知识分析、评论简单的文学文本。
二、考试内容1、英国文学部分1)英国文艺复兴时期的文学:“文艺复兴”产生的历史背景、定义及其主要特征、对英国文学的影响、主要作家及其作品。
2)新古典主义时期(18世纪)英国文学:启蒙运动形成的原因、启蒙运动的定义、特征及其对英国文学的影响、这一时期主要的作家及其作品。
3)浪漫主义时期(19世纪早期)英国文学:英国浪漫主义文学形成的历史背景、浪漫主义诗歌的主要作家及其作品、浪漫主义小说的主要作家及其作家品、浪漫主义散文的主要作家及其作品。
811综合知识
2009年湖南农业大学硕士招生自命题科目试题科目名称及代码:综合知识(811)适用专业:外国语言学及应用语言学考生注意事项:1. 所有答案必须做在答题纸上,做在试题纸上一律无效;2. 按试题顺序答题,在答题纸上标明题目序号。
Section A: Linguistics (55points)I. Define the following terms. (10 points,2 points each )1.prescriptive/descriptive2. displacement3. phonemic contrast4. bound morpheme5. IC AnalysisII. Fill in each blank with a suitable term, with some of the initial letters given . (10 points, 1 point each)1. In modern linguistics, s_________ study seems to enjoy priority over ________ study. The reason is that successful studies of various states of language would be the foundations of a history study. .2. In English, the study of phonology has so far mainly found three phonological rules. They are _________, assimilation and d________.3.A morpheme can convey two kinds of meanings: _________meaning and grammatical meaning.4. The sequential order of words in a sentence suggests that the structure of asentence is l________..5. “Buy” and “sell” are a pair of r________ opposites.6.In semantic analysis of a sentence, the basic unit is called p_________.7.There are four maxims under the cooperative principle: the maxim of quantity, the maxim of quality, the maxim of relation and the maxim of ________.8. An e_________ is to express feelings or attitude towards an existing state.III. Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false. Write T for true and F for false. (15 points,1.5 points each )1. Animals cannot talk about the things except those about food, danger, enemy, etc. because the communicative signals of animals do not have the property of displacement..2. The major difference between a sentence and an utterance is that a sentence is not uttered while an utterance is.3. Austin made the distinction between a constative and a performative.4. In the classic semantic triangle, the symbol is directly related to the referent..5. All the grammatically well-formed sentences are not necessarily semantically well-formed.6. The part of a sentence which comprise an infinite verb or an infinite verb phrase is grammatically called a clause.7. X-bar theory is a typical instance of principle in terms Chomsky’s UG..8. All words have morphs but not necessarily allomorphs.9. Linguistics can be defined as the scientific study of a particular language.10. The London School is best known and remembered for its contribution to phonology and the distinction between phonetics and phonology..IV. Choose FIVE of the following questions to answer. (20 points,4 points each)1. Communication can take many forms, such as sign, speech, body language and facial expression. Do body language and facial expression share or lack the distinctive properties of human language?2. Draw a diagram for each of the following two sentences to reveal the difference.a. The cat ran up the tree.b. The cat ate up the fish.3. What do you think of the position of grammar in language learning?4. How do you understand Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?.5. What is special about Systemic-Functional linguistics?6. Make a comment on the Prague School.Section B: Translation (50 points)I. Translate the following into Chinese (20 points)What I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life ---the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy —ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of living for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness —that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature(缩影¹), the prefiguring visionof the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life,this is what, at last, I have found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.Ⅱ.Translate the following into English. (30 points)1.古之学者,必有师。
2018年湖南农业大学硕士招生自命题科目试题-811 综合知识
2018年湖南农业大学硕士招生自命题科目试题科目名称及代码:811 综合知识适用专业(领域):外国语言学及应用语言学考生需带的工具:语考生注意事项:①所有答案必须做在答题纸上,做在试题纸上一律无效;②按试题顺序答题,在答题纸上标明题目序号。
一、解释题:从下面挑选5个术语进行简单解释并可根据需要举例说明(共计10分,每小题2分)1、arbitrariness 5、deep structure2、IPA 6、informative function3、manners of articulation 7、encoding4、grammatical category二、填空题:在下面每空填一个词,其中部分首字母已给出(共计10分,每空1分)1、When the obstruction is partial and the air is forced through a narrow passage in the mouth so as to cause definite local friction at the point, the speech sound thus produced is a f_________2、Language exist in time and change through time. The description of a language at some point of time iscalled s_________ study of language.3、IC analysis emphasizes the h _________ structure of a sentence, seeing it as consisting of word groupsfirst.4、Pitch variation is known as i_________ when its patterns are imposed on sentences.5、According to its position in the new word, a _________ are divided into two kinds: prefixes and suffixes.6、P _________ refers to the phenomenon that the same word may have a set of different meanings.7、There are generally three kinds of sense relations recognized, namely, sameness relation, oppositeness relation and i_________ relation.8、The u_________ meaning of the sentence varies with the context in which it is uttered.9、H_________ refers to the phenomenon that words with different meanings have the same form.10、C_________ holds that there is no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers to, rather, inthe interpretation of meaning they are linked through the mediation of concepts in the mind. .三、判断题:根据语言学常识判明正误,对者在该题括号里标T,错者在该题括号里标F. (共计15分,每小题1.5分)1、()Free morphemes can be further classified into the inflectional and derivational morphemes.2、()The phoneme /t/ and /d/ can occur in the same position and they distinguish meaning, therefore theyare said to be in complementary distribution.3、()Relations of co-occurrence partly belongs to syntagmatic relations, partly to paradigmatic relations.4、()One advantage of componential analysis is that by specifying the semantic features of words, it will be possible to show how these words are related in meaning.5、()Linguistic forms having the same sense may have different references in different situations whilelinguistic forms with the same reference always have the same sense.6、()In the sentence John loves Mary, John is the argument, loves Mary is the predicate.7、()When a bilingual speaker switches between the two languages concerned, he is converting one modeof thinking into the other.8、()The subject-predicate distinction is the same as the theme and rheme contrast.9、()Speakers of different languages are capable of distinguishing and recognizing experiences of thesame objective world according to their respective different linguistic coding system.10、()Structuralists suggested that errors are unavoidable in learning and should be tolerated.四、问答题:从下面各题挑选5题做简单回答(共计20分,每小题4分)1、How do you understand "duality", a design feature of language?2、Do you prefer descriptive linguistics to prescriptive linguistics ? Give your reasons.3、Illustrate the differences between morpheme, phoneme and allomorph with example.4、What is predicate analysis? What is a no-place, one-place, two-place, or three-place predicate?5、Explain the following remarks with examples or make some comments.“Both semantics and pragmatics are concerned with meaning, but the difference between them can be traced to two different uses of the verb mean: (a) What does X mean? (b) What did you mean by X?”6、Explain the following statement with examples: Syntax is about principles of forming and understanding correct English sentences.7、Some students may use the incorrect forms in the left column below instead of the correct ones in the五、英译汉:将下列段落翻译成汉语(共计30分)When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away. Rereading them, certain sentences are what greet me as familiars. You have visited before; they say when I recognize them. We encounter books at different times in life, often appreciating them, apprehending them, in different ways. But their language is constant. The best sentences orient us, like stars in the sky, like landmarks on a trail.They remain the test, whether or not to read something. The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates.Knowing – and learning to read in – a foreign tongue heightens and complicates my relationship to sentences. For some time now, I have been reading predominantly in Italian. I experience these novels and stories differently. I take no sentence for granted. I am more conscious of them. I work harder to know them. I pause to look something up, I puzzled over syntax I am still assimilating. Each sentence yields a twin, translated version of itself. When the filter of a second language falls away, my connection to these sentences, though more basic, feels purer, at times more intimate, than when I read in English.The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one anotheris the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life. It is a habit of antiphony: of call and response. Most days begin with sentences that are typed into a journal no one has ever seen. There is a freedom to this; freedom to write what I will not proceed to wrestle with. The entries are mostly quotidian, a warming up of the fingers and brain. On days when I am troubled, when I am grieved, when I am at a loss for words, the mechanics of formulating sentences, and of stockpiling them in a vault, is the only thing that centers me again.六、汉译英:将下列段落翻译成英语(共计30分)三十多年前,我们开始改革开放时,突然认识到,市场是个好东西,认为以前之所以没搞好,根本原因就是没有尊重市场调节。
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我们通过这样的实践来考察和提高自己对翻译理论及翻译常用方法、技巧的掌握从而提高自己的翻译技能以适应未来实践的需要。
英语专业翻译实践通过对各类题材的文章翻译实践掌握各种文体的语言特点、汉英两种语言的对比和分析使我们在了解翻译基本理论的基础上在实践中提高自己的翻译能力是自己的翻译能力增强。
一、实习目的全面地将所学的各项英语知识结合起来并在翻译实践中进一步运用翻译技巧来提高翻译水平,巩固专业知识的基础上努力扩大自己的知识面这样才有助于我们成为全面发展的人才在未来的工作领域中一展风采。
另外此次实习经历也让我们学到了许多为人处世的道理并对自己的人生道路有了更明确的规划。
二、实习基本情况从大三开始我们开了翻译课第一学期的英译汉以及本学期的是汉译英,经过了整整两个学期的英语翻译,我觉得自己在翻译方面能力有所提高。
将近一个月的翻译实践课程即将结束,指导老师精心的为我们挑选了具有代表性的翻译资料,资料内容丰富涉及经济、科研、实事新闻、历史、医学、心理等各个方面方面以及保护等方面。
在实习起步阶段,我们先是由魏老师指导向我们进行本次实习的内容、安排以及意义并将我们分组。
要求了每周的具体工作以及我们第一周要进行的翻译材料,汉译英材料是《唐朝皇后棺椁被追回》,英译汉是《extra weight in early childhood foretells later disease risk》,并要求我们将《唐朝皇后棺椁被追回》做成课件,详细的列出翻译过程中所遇到困难以及感受。
第二周的翻译材料是《设备维修中心》和《exhaustion syndrome leaves measurable changes in the brain》万事开头难,翻译实习的开始是比较头疼的,在正式动笔对《唐朝皇后棺椁被追回》进行翻译之前我们不得不复习之前所学过的翻译理论知识点了解在翻译过程中所应该注意的各种事项。
2017年湖南农业大学考研真题811 综合知识硕士招生自命题科目试题
2017年湖南农业大学硕士招生自命题科目试题科目名称及代码:811 综合知识适用专业:外国语言学及应用语言学考生需带的工具:考生注意事项:①所有答案必须做在答题纸上,做在试题纸上一律无效;②按试题顺序答题,在答题纸上标明题目序号。
一、解释题:从下面挑选5个术语进行简单解释并可根据需要举例说明(共计10分,每小题2分)1、langue and parole 5、Inflection2、minimal pairs 6、speech community3、auxiliary verb 7、linguistic relativity4、locutionary act二、填空题:在下面每空填一个词,其中部分首字母已给出(共计10分,每空1分)1、If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use it is said to bed_________2、Consonants differ from vowels in that the latter are produced without o_________3、An initialism is pronounced letter by letter, while an a _________ is pronounced as a word.4、Clear [l] and dark [ɬ] are allophones of the same one phoneme /l/. They never take the same position insound combinations, thus they are said to be in c_________ distribution.5、C _________ is a term used in lexicology by some linguists to refer to the habitual co-occurrences ofindividual lexical items. For example, we can “correct” a “mistake”, “read” a “book” and “watch TV”.No one can “correct” a television or “read” a mistake.6、Predication analysis is to break down predications into their constituents: a _________ and predicate.7、G _________ opposites may be seen in terms of degrees of quality involved.8、C _________ Principle proposed by J.Grice is the general principle, in making conversation, that allparticipants are expected to observe.9、A c _________ sentence contains two clauses joined by a linking word, such as “and ”, “but”, “or”.10、Language itself is not sexist, but its use may reflect the s_________ attitude connoted in the languagethat is sexist.三、判断题:根据语言学常识判明正误,对者在该题括号里标T,错者在该题括号里标F. (共计15分,每小题1.5分)1、()Language is a system of arbitrary, written signs which permit all the people in a given culture, orother people who have learned the system of that culture, to communicate or interact.2、()In the history of any language the writing system always came into being before the spoken form.3、()Stem is the part of word that remains when all inflectional affixes are removed.4、()Move-αrule itself can rule out ungrammatical forms and result in grammatical strings.5、()Of the three speech acts, linguists are most interested in the illocutionary act because this kind ofspeech is identical with the speaker’s intention.6、()Women in western countries at least appear to be more status-conscious and sensitive to the socialsignificance of certain linguistic variables.共3页第1页。
2012年湖南农业大学考研试题811 综合知识.
2012年湖南农业大学硕士招生自命题科目试题科目名称及代码:811 综合知识适用专业:外国语言学及应用语言学考生需带的工具:考生注意事项:①所有答案必须做在答题纸上,做在试题纸上一律无效;②按试题顺序答题,在答题纸上标明题目序号。
一、解释题:从下面挑选5个术语进行简单解释并可根据需要举例说明(共计10分,每小题2分1. competence2. minimal pair3. assimilation rule4 morpheme 5. reference6. illocutionary act7. syntax二、填空题:在下面每空填一个词,其中部分首字母已给出(共计10分,每空1分1. In any language words can be used in new ways to mean new things and can becombined into innumerable sentences based on limited rules, this feature is usually termed p _________.2. A_________ phonetics is a branch of phonetics concerns the production ofspeech sounds.3. A syllable consists of three parts: the onset, the p______ and the coda, e.g. [men].4. E___________ refers to the process of construction where one clause is includedin the sentence (main clause in syntactic subordination.5. P ___________refers to the phenomenon that the same word may have a set ofdifferent meanings. .6. Predication analysis refers to the kind of analysis which involves the breakingdown of predication into their constituents: A________ and Predicate.7.The Sapir- Whorf Hypothesis has two thrusts: linguistic d ________ andlinguistic relativity.8. “The man put on his hat” is transformed into “The man put his hat on”, the rule iscalled r ________ according to Transformational Generative Grammar.9. In making conversation, the general principle that all participants expected to共4页第1页observe is called the C________ Principle proposed by J.Grice.10. While the meaning of a sentence is abstract and decontextualized, that of an_____ is concrete and context- dependent.三、判断题:根据语言学常识判明正误,对者在该题括号里标T,错者在该题括号里标F. (共计15分,每小题1.5分1. (Duality is one of the characteristics of human language. It refers to the fact that that language has two levels of structures: the system of sounds and the system of meanings.2. (Saussure’s exposition of synchronic analysis led to the school of historicallinguistics.3. (Supersegmental phonology refers to the study of phonological properties ofunits larger than the segment- phoneme, such as syllable, word and sentence.4. (We can always tell by the words a compound contains what it means becausethe meaning of a compound is always the sum of the meanings of its parts.5. (A constituent which is not at the same time a construction is a morpheme,and a construction which is not at the same time a constituent is a sentence.6. (The linguistic context considers the probability of one word’s co-occurrenceor collocation with another, which forms part of the meaning, and an important factor in communication.7. (Of the three speech acts, linguists are most interested in the illocutionary actbecause this kind of speech is identical with the speaker’s intention.8. (If language learners are provided with sufficient and the right kind oflanguage exposure and chances to interact with language input, they will acquire the native-like competence in the target language.9. (Fossilization refers to a process that sometimes occurs in second languagelearning in which incorrect linguistics features (such as the accent of a grammatical pattern become a permanent part of the way of a person speaks or writes in the target language.10. (The word “denationalization” is made up of 4 morphemes.四、问答题:从下面各题挑选5题做简单回答(共计20分,每小题4分1. What are design features of language?共4页第2页2. Why do linguists say language is human specific?3. Why is competence and performance an important distinction in linguistics?What is communicative competence?4. What are broad transcription and narrow transcription? How are they manifestedin the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA?5. What is a semantic field? Can you illustrate it?6. What do you think of Halliday’s Systemic Grammar?7. Make a comment on ONE of the following linguists’ contribution to linguisticstudy: (1Chomsky’s ; (2 Bloomfield’s; (3 J. Grice’s; (4Firth’s (5 Ma Jianzhong’s; (马建忠五、英译汉:将下列段落翻译成汉语(共计30分(1 BeautyBeauty means this to one and that to the other. And yet when anyone of us has seen that which to him is beautiful he has known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind.A ship in sail, a blooming flower, a town at night, a lovely poem, leaf shadows, a child's grace, the starry skies, apple trees in spring--the thought of beauty--these are the drops of rain that keep the human spirit from death by draught. They are a stealing and a silent refreshment that we perhaps do not think about but which goes on all the time. Beauty is the smile on the earth's face, open to all, and needs but the eyes to see, mood to understand.(2And the US continues to contribute to Asia's growth as a major trade and investment partner, a source of innovation that benefits Asia's companies, a host to 350,000 Asian students every year, a champion of open markets, an advocate for universal human rights, and a guarantor of stability and security across the Asia Pacific. The Obama Administration has made a comprehensive commitment to reinvigorate our engagement as a Pacific power - shoring up alliances and friendships, reaching out to emerging partners, and strengthening multilateral institutions.These efforts reflect our optimism and enthusiasm for what is happening in Asia today. Of course, countries in this region are grappling with challenges. We all are. But we are bullish(行情看涨on Asia's future, and while the United States is facing its own difficulties, make no mistake: We are bullish on America's future too.六、汉译英:将下列段落翻译成汉语(共计30分(1共4页第3页庆历四年春,滕子京谪守巴陵郡。
2012湖南农大研究生招生考试科目
一级学科名称及代码
二级学科名称与代码
第一门
第二门
第三门
第四门
复试科目
同等学力加试科目
马克思主义理论(0305)
马克思主义中国化研究(030503)
101思想政治理论
201英语一
610马克思主义基本原理
810毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系概论
710中国近代史纲要
601数学(自命题)
824环境学概论
723环境化学
929环境生态学
929农业环境保护
环境工程(083002)
101思想政治理论
201英语一
302数学二
824环境学概论
724环境工程学
930环境质量评价
930环境生态学
食品科学与工程(0832)
食品科学与工程(083200)
101思想政治理论
201英语一
201英语一
314数学(农)
832土地资源学
743遥感原理及应用
946资源与环境概论
946农业资源调查
植物保护
植物病理学(090401)
101思想政治理论
201英语一
315化学(农)
414植物生理学与生物化学
744普通植物病理学
947农业植物病理学
947农业昆虫学
农业昆虫与害虫防治(090402)
101思想政治理论
101思想政治理论
201英语一
314数学(农)或315化学(农)
415动物生理学与生物化学
716动物营养学
949配合饲料学
949饲料添加剂学
特种经济动物饲养(090504)
2020湖南农业大学自命题科目参考书目
830
西方经济学
《西方经济学》(第六版)(微观部分、宏观部分),高鸿业主编,中国人民大学出版社,2014年出版。
831
公共政策学
《公共政策学》(第二版),宁骚主编,高等教育出版社,2016年出版。
832
土地资源学
《土地资源学》(第二版),王秋兵主编,中国农业出版社,2011年出版。
618
动物生物化学
《动物生物化学》(第五版),邹思湘主编,中国农业出版社,2012年出版。
619
水域生态学
《养殖水域生态学》,董双林,赵文主编,中国农业出版社,2004年出版;《鱼类生态学》,殷名称主编,中国农业出版社,2000年出版。
620
食品营养学
《营养与食品卫生学》(第8版),孙长颢主编,人民卫生出版社, 2017年出版。
(095132资源利用与植物保护领域农业资源利用方向)
植物生理学:《植物生理学》,肖浪涛、王三根主编,中国农业出版社,2004年出版;
农业生态学:《农业生态学》,邹冬生,廖桂平主编,湖南教育出版社, 2002年出版;
土壤学:《土壤学》(第三版)黄昌勇,徐建明主编;中国农业出版社,2011年出版。
340
431
金融学综合
《货币金融学》(第二版),蒋先玲,机械工业出版社,2017年出版;《国际金融学》(第五版),杨长江,姜波克,高等教育出版社,2019年出版;《商业银行经营学》(第五版),戴国强,高等教育出版社,2016年出版。
448
汉语写作与百科知识
百科知识要求对中外(外国以英美国家为主)历史文化、政治制度、经济、科学技术和时事有一般性了解,无具体参考书。《应用文写作》,王首程主编,高等教育出版社,2009年,或其它公文类教材。
2020湖南农业大学自命题科目参考书目
食品科学基础
《食品工艺学》,夏文水主编,中国轻工业出版社,2009年出版。
821
农学概论(一)
《农学概论》,杨文钰主编,中国农业出版社,2011年出版;《现代作物栽培学》,官春云主编,高等教育出版社,2011年出版。
822
植物生理学
《植物生理学》,萧浪涛,王三根主编,中国农业出版社;《植物生理学学习指导》,萧浪涛,王三根主编,中国农业出版社2008年版。
农业生态学:《农业生态学》,邹冬生,廖桂平主编,湖南教育出版社, 2002年出版。
339
农业知识综合一
(095131农艺与种业领域作物、种业、草业方向)
植物学:《植物生物学》,周云龙主编,高等教育出版社;
遗传学:《普通遗传学》,(第二版)杨业华主编,高等教育出版社,2006年5月出版;
植物育种学:《作物育种学总论》,张天真主编,中国农业出版社,2003出版;《植物育种理论与方法》官春云主编,上海科技出版社,2004出版。
339
农业知识综合一
(095132资源利用与植物保护领域植物保护方向)
植物学:《植物生物学》,周云龙主编,高等教育出版社;
植物生理学:《植物生理学》,肖浪涛、王三根主编,中国农业出版社,2004年出版;
农业生态学:《农业生态学》,邹冬生,廖桂平主编,湖南教育出版社, 2002年出版。
339
农业综合知识一
346
体育综合
《学校体育学》,沈建华,陈融主编,高等教育出版社,2018年9月出版;《运动训练学》,田麦久,高等教育出版社(第二版),2017年4月出版;《运动训练学》,田麦久,人民体育出版社,2000年8月出版。
357
英语翻译基础
《英语笔译实务》(三级)最新修订版,外文出版社;《汉英英汉美文翻译与鉴赏(中英对照)》,刘士聪主编,译林出版社,2010年版;《翻译学核心术语》,王东风,外语教学与研究出版社,2016年出版;《英译中国现代散文选》,张培基,上海外语教育出版社;《英语世界》、《英语文摘》刊载的时事、外交、经贸、文化、科技类文章。
湖南农业大学马克思主义学院810毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系概论2008-2015年考研真题汇编
目录2015年湖南农业大学810毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系概论考研真题2014年湖南农业大学810毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系概论考研真题2013年湖南农业大学810毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系概论考研真题2012年湖南农业大学810毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系概论考研真题2011年湖南农业大学810毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系考研真题2010年湖南农业大学810毛泽东思想、邓小平理论与“三个代表”重要思想概论考研真题2009年湖南农业大学810毛泽东思想、邓小平理论与“三个代表”重要思想概论考研真题2008年湖南农业大学810毛泽东思想、邓小平理论与“三个代表”重要思想概论考研真题2015年湖南农业大学810毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系概论考研真题科目代码:810科目名称:毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义理论体系概论一、简答题(共计48分,每小题12分)1.为什么说中国特色社会主义理论体系三大理论成果之间既一脉相承又与时俱进?2.简述以毛泽东为核心的第一代领导集体在社会主义建设道路初步探索时期取得的重要思想成果。
3.简述依法治国的重要意义。
4.简述中华优秀传统文化与社会主义先进文化的关系。
二、论述题(共计66分,每小题22分)1.试论中国特色社会主义理论体系对“实现什么样的发展、怎样发展”这个问题的探索和回答。
2.习近平总书记多次强调,中国是一个大国,不能出现颠覆性错误。
所谓的颠覆性错误,就是指根本性、方向性错误。
试论我国在全面深化改革过程中如何才能坚持正确的方向。
3.如何建设学习型、服务型、创新型马克思主义政党?三、材料分析题(共计36分,每小题18分)材料11910年,上海人陆士谔在幻想小说《新中国》里记载了一个神奇的梦,梦中主人公随时光穿梭,看到“万国博览会”在上海浦东举行,为方便市民参观,上海滩建成了浦东大铁桥和越江隧道,还造了地铁,工厂中的机器有鬼斧神工之妙,租界的治外法权已经收回,汉语成了世界通用的流行语言……最后梦中人一跤跌醒,却言道:“休说是梦,到那时,真有这景象也未可知。
2014年湖南农业大学外国语学院811综合知识(语言学基础知识、翻译理论、现代汉语)考研真题
2014年湖南农业大学外国语学院811综合知识(语言学基础知识、翻译理论、现代汉语)考研真题科目名称及代码:811综合知识适用专业:外国语言学及应用语言学考生注意事项:①所有答案必须做在答题纸上,做在试题纸上一律无效;②按试题顺序答题,在答题纸上标明题目序号。
一、解释题:从下面挑选5个术语进行简单解释并可根据需要举例说明(共计10分,每小题2分,多答只计前5题)1. Conceptualism2. Entailment3. Move-α- rule4. Fossilization5. Prefix6. Onomatopoeia7. Conversational Implicature二、填空题:在下面每空填一个词,其中部分首字母已给出(共计10分,每空1分)1. A_____ phonetics studies the movement of the vocal organs of producing thesounds of speech.2. B_____is a process of word-formation in which a new word is formed by combing the meanings and sounds of two words, one of the which is not in its full form or both of which are not in their full forms, like brunch.3. C_____ is based on the presumption that one can derive meaning from, or reduce it to, observable context---- the situational context and the linguistic context.4. M_____ is the branch of grammar that studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed.5. H_____ structure is the sentence structure that group words into structuralconstituents and shows the syntactic category of each structural constituent, such as NP, VP and PP.6. S_____ is a sub-field of linguistics that studies the sentence structure of language.7.P_____ are sentences that do not state a fact or describe a state and are notverifiable, in other words, they are utterances that perform an act.8. I_____ is the language system of an individual as expressed their way he or shespeaks or writes within the overall system of a particular language.9. I_____ is a term coined by Selinker to refer to the systematic knowledge of an L2that is independent of both the target language and the learner’s L110. D_____ refers to an area of human activity in which one particular speechvariety or a combination of several speech varieties is regularly used. Forinstance, situations in which the persons talking to one another are members of the family, e.g. mother and children.三、判断题:根据语言学常识判明正误,对者标T,错者标F. (共计15分,每小题1.5分)1. ()Discourse analysis is the study of how sentences in spoken and writtenlanguage form larger meaningful units such as paragraphs,conversations, interviews, etc.2. ()Vernacular refers to a change by a speaker form one language orlanguage variety to another, it can take place in a conversation when onespeaker uses one language and the other speaker answers in a differentlanguage.3. ()Chomsky’s concept of linguistic performance is similar to Saussure’sconcept of parole, while his use of linguistic competence is somewhat different from Saussure’s langue..4. ()If language learners are provided with sufficient and the right kind oflanguage exposure and chances to interact with language input, they will acquire the native-like competence in the target language.5. ()Syntactic category refers to all phrasal syntactic categories such as NP,VP,and PP, and word-level syntactic categories that serve as heads of phrasal syntactic categories such as N and V.6. ()Cohesion shows whether a certain tagmeme is dominating othertagmemes or is dominated by others.7. ()Inviting, suggesting, warning, ordering are instances of commissives.8. ()Hyponymy is a matter of class membership, so it is the same asmeronymy.9. ()An endocentric construction is also known as a headed construction, ithas just one head.10. ()We can always tell by the words a compound contains what it meansbecause the meaning of a compound is always the sum of the meaning of its parts.四、问答题:从下面各题挑选5题做简单回答(共计20分,每小题4分,多答只计前5题)1. How to distinguish root, stem and base?2. What are deep structure and surface structure?3. What is the difference between synchronic linguistics and diachroniclinguistics?4. What is stress in a word? For words of more than one syllable, how are theypronounced?5. What’s your understanding of cooperative principle?6. What is predicate analysis? What is a no-place, one-place, two-place, orthree-place predicate?7. Make a comment on ONE of the following linguists’ contribution to linguisticstudy: (1) Chomsky’s; (2) Halliday’s; (3) Saussure’s; (4) LÜ Shuxiang’s (吕叔湘); (5) Zhao Yuanren’s (赵元任)五、英译汉:将下列段落翻译成汉语(共计30分)(1)What is leadership?Its qualities are difficult to define. But they are not so difficult to identifyLeaders don’t force other people to go along with them. They bring them along. Leaders get commitment from others by giving it themselves, by building an environment that encourages creativity, and by operating with honesty and fairness.Leaders demand much of others, but also give much of themselves. They are Ambitious — not only for themselves, but also for those who work with them. They seek to attract, retain and develop other people to their full abilities.Good leaders aren’t lone rangers. They recognize that an organization’s strategies for success require the combined talents and efforts of many people. Leadership’s is the catalyst for transforming those talents into results.Leaders know that when there are two opinions on an issue, one is not bound to be wrong. They recognize that hustle and rush are the allies of superficiality. They are open to new ideas, but they explore their ramifications thoroughly.(2)Thomas Malthus first published his “Essay on the Principle of Population”, in which he forecast that population growth would outstrip the world’s food supply, in 1798. His timing was unfortunate, for something started happening around thenwhich made nonsense of his ideas. As industrialization swept through what is now the developed world, fertility fell sharply, first in France, then in Britain, then throughout Europe and America. When people got richer, families got smaller; and as families got smaller, people got richer.Now, something similar is happening in developing countries. Fertility is falling and families are shrinking in places—such as Brazil, Indonesia, and even parts of India—that people think of as teeming with children. As our briefing shows, the fertility rate of half the world is now 2.1 or less—the magic number that is consistent with a stable population and is usually called “the replacement rate of fertility”. Sometime between 2020 and 2050 the world’s fertility rate will fall below the global replacement rate.Falling fertility is a boon for what it makes possible, which is economic growth. Demography used to be thought of as neutral for growth. But that was because, until the 1990s, there were few developing countries with records of declining fertility and rising incomes. Now there are dozens and they show that as countries move from large families and poverty into wealth and ageing they pass through a Goldilocks period: a generation or two in which fertility is neither too high nor too low and in which there are few dependent children, few dependent grandparents—and a bulge of adults in the middle who, if conditions are right, make the factories hum. For countries in demographic transition, the fall to replacement fertility is a unique and precious opportunity.In principle, there are three ways of limiting human environmental impacts:。
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①101 思想政治理论
②201 英语一
③622风景园林综合知识
④510园林设计(考试时间为6小时)
f011电脑制图和手绘效果图
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02农业昆虫与害虫防治
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f062普通昆虫学
03农药学
全日制
f065植物化学保护
04生物信息学
全日制
①101思想政治理论
②201英语一
③613普通生物学(一)
④824计算机基础
f064生物信息学基础
015动物科学技术学院
090500畜牧学
01动物营养与饲料科学
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①101思想政治理论
②201英语一
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012农学院
090100作物学
01作物学
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①101思想政治理论
②201英语一
③615植物学
④821农学概论(一)
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01果树学
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①101思想政治理论
②201英语一
③615植物学
④822植物生理学
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02蔬菜学
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03茶学
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f056茶树栽培、加工与茶叶生物化学
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2014年湖南农业大学外国语学院811综合知识(语言学基础知识、翻译理论、现代汉语)考研真题科目名称及代码:811综合知识适用专业:外国语言学及应用语言学考生注意事项:①所有答案必须做在答题纸上,做在试题纸上一律无效;②按试题顺序答题,在答题纸上标明题目序号。
一、解释题:从下面挑选5个术语进行简单解释并可根据需要举例说明(共计10分,每小题2分,多答只计前题)1. Conceptualism2. Entailment3. Move-α- rule4. Fossilization5. Prefix6. Onomatopoeia7. Conversational Implicature二、填空题:在下面每空填一个词,其中部分首字母已给出(共计10分,每空1分)1. A_____ phonetics studies the movement of the vocal organs of producing thesounds of speech.2. B_____is a process of word-formation in which a new word is formed bycombing the meanings and sounds of two words, one of the which is not in its full form or both of which are not in their full forms, like brunch.3. C_____ is based on the presumption that one can derive meaning from, or reduce it to, observable context---- the situational context and the linguistic context.4. M_____ is the branch of grammar that studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed.5. H_____ structure is the sentence structure that group words into structural constituents and shows the syntactic category of each structural constituent, such as NP, VP and PP.6. S_____ is a sub-field of linguistics that studies the sentence structure of language.7. P_____ are sentences that do not state a fact or describe a state and are not verifiable, in other words, they are utterances that perform an act.8. I_____ is the language system of an individual as expressed their way he or she speaks or writes within the overall system of a particular language.9. I_____ is a term coined by Selinker to refer to the systematic knowledge of an L2 that is independent of both the target language and the learner’s L1 10. D_____ refers to an area of human activity in which one particular speech variety or a combination of several speech varieties is regularly used. For instance, situations in which the persons talking to one another are members of the family, e.g. mother and children.三、判断题:根据语言学常识判明正误,对者标T,错者标F。
(共计15分,每小题1.5分)1. ()Discourse analysis is the study of how sentences in spoken and writtenlanguage form larger meaningful units such as paragraphs, conversations,interviews, etc.2. ()Vernacular refers to a change by a speaker form one language orlanguage variety to another, it can take place in a conversation when onespeaker uses one language and the other speaker answers in a differentlanguage.3. ()Chomsky’s concept of linguistic performance is similar to Saussure’sconcept of parole, while his use of linguistic competence is somewhat different from Saussure’s langue.4. ()If language learners are provided with sufficient and the right kind oflanguage exposure and chances to interact with language input, they willacquire the native-like competence in the target language.5. ()Syntactic category refers to all phrasal syntactic categories such asNP,VP, and PP, and word-level syntactic categories that serve as heads of phrasal syntactic categories such as N and V.6. ()Cohesion shows whether a certain tagmeme is dominating othertagmemes or is dominated by others.7. ()Inviting, suggesting, warning, ordering are instances of commissives.8. ()Hyponymy is a matter of class membership, so it is the same asmeronymy.9. ()An endocentric construction is also known as a headed construction,it has just one head.10. ()We can always tell by the words a compound contains what it meansbecause the meaning of a compound is always the sum of the meaning of its parts.四、问答题:从下面各题挑选5题做简单回答(共计20分,每小题4分,多答只计前5题)1. How to distinguish root, stem and base?2. What are deep structure and surface structure?3. What is the difference between synchronic linguistics and diachroniclinguistics?4. What is stress in a word? For words of more than one syllable, how are theypronounced?5. What’s your understanding of cooperative principle?6. What is predicate analysis? What is a no-place, one-place, two-place, orthree-place predicate?7. Make a comment on ONE of the following linguists’contribution tolinguistic study: (1) Chomsky’s; (2) Halliday’s; (3) Saussure’s; (4) LÜShuxiang’s (吕叔湘); (5) Zhao Yuanren’s (赵元任)五、英译汉:将下列段落翻译成汉语(共计30分)(1)What is leadership?Its qualities are difficult to define. But they are not so difficult to identifyLeaders don’t force other people to go along with them. They bring them along. Leaders get commitment from others by giving it themselves, by building an environment that encourages creativity, and by operating with honesty and fairness.Leaders demand much of others, but also give much of themselves. They are Ambitious — not only for themselves, but also for those who work with them. They seek to attract, retain and develop other people to their full abilities.Good leaders aren’t lone rangers. They recognize that an organization’s strategies for success require the combined talents and efforts of many people. Leadership’s is the catalyst for transforming those talents into results.Leaders know that when there are two opinions on an issue, one is not bound to be wrong. They recognize that hustle and rush are the allies of superficiality. They are open to new ideas, but they explore their ramifications thoroughly.(2)Thomas Malthus first published his “Essay on the Principle of Population”, in which he forecast that population growth would outstrip the world’s food supply, in 1798. His timing was unfortunate, for something started happening around then which made nonsense of his ideas. As industrialization swept through what is nowthe developed world, fertility fell sharply, first in France, then in Britain, then throughout Europe and America. When people got richer, families got smaller; and as families got smaller, people got richer.Now, something similar is happening in developing countries. Fertility is falling and families are shrinking in places—such as Brazil, Indonesia, and even parts of India—that people think of as teeming with children. As our briefing shows, the fertility rate of half the world is now 2.1 or less—the magic number that is consistent with a stable population and is usually called “the replacement rate of fertility”. Sometime between 2020 and 2050 the world’s fertility rate will fall below the global replacement rate.Falling fertility is a boon for what it makes possible, which is economic growth. Demography used to be thought of as neutral for growth. But that was because, until the 1990s, there were few developing countries with records of declining fertility and rising incomes. Now there are dozens and they show that as countries move from large families and poverty into wealth and ageing they pass through a Goldilocks period: a generation or two in which fertility is neither too high nor too low and in which there are few dependent children, few dependent grandparents—and a bulge of adults in the middle who, if conditions are right, make the factories hum. For countries in demographic transition, the fall to replacement fertility is a unique and precious opportunity.In principle, there are three ways of limiting human environmental impacts: through population policy, technology and governance. The first of those does not。