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1、国高等教育自学考试语言与文化试题国2013年10月高等教育自学考试语言与文化试题课程代码：00838请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。选择题部分注意事项： 1答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。 2每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。 I. Each of the following incomplete statements is followed by four alternatives. Read each state

2、ment and the four alternatives carefully and decide which of the four alternatives best completes the statement and blacken your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.(20%)1. Language is vocal. This statement means that the primary medium of language is _. A. writing B. speech C. body language D. native langua

3、ge2. A person who cannot read or write is only an “illiterate”. However, a person who cannot speak is normally regarded as “disabled”. This fact shows _. A. speech existed long before the writing system came into being B. normal children always learn to speak first C. speech is more important than w

4、riting for peoples daily life D. written symbols are designed to represent speech3. “Statesman” and “politician” can both be used to refer to a high government official. “Politician” conveys a derogative meaning while “statesman” does not. In this sense, the two words are mainly distinguished by the

5、ir _ meaning. A. conceptual B. connotative C. social D. affective4. Which of the following pairs of English expressions and their Chinese equivalents is NOT correct? A. house-warming房屋供暖 B. wall clock挂钟 C. stop watch跑表 D. contact lenses隐形眼镜 5. In which sentence does “it” function only as a grammatic

6、al subject and not refer to anything? Sentence 1: It is raining. Sentence 2: It is 9:00 o clock. Sentence 3: It is very cold. Sentence 4: It is my book. A. Sentence 1,2 B. Sentence 3,4 C. Sentence 1,2,3 D. Sentence 2,3,4 6. How many morphemes are there in the word “international”? A.0 B.l C.2 D.3 7.

7、 You invite your English speaking friend to have dinner in your house. When he compliments that the food is very tasty, your response might be “_”. A. No, its not good at all. B. Thank you. Im glad you like it. C. You are so nice to say so. D. My cooking is poor. 8. “Excuse me” can be used in the fo

8、llowing occasions EXCEPT _. A. when people want to pass in front of others B. when people want to leave a party C. when people are a few minutes late for an appointment D. when people want to excuse themselves from company 9. “Red tape” means _. A. a red cassette B. the rigid unnecessary official ru

9、les and regulations C. the necessary official rules and regulations D. a red string 10. The English equivalent for “前车之覆，后车之鉴” can be“ _”. A. rats desert a sinking ship B. a small leak will sink a great ship C. he that would sail without danger must never come on the main sea D. let anothers shipwre

10、ck be your seamark 11. What does the expression “a blue fit” mean in informal English? A. a girls dress B. alarm C. unhappy feelings D. a sad day 12. What is the meaning of “a bear” in “He is a bear at fine arts.”? A. a huge guy B. a wealthy man C. good at D. clumsy 13. A Chinese shows respect not o

11、nly to a superior as his interlocutor. He uses honorifics to refer to his superior no matter whether his superior is present or not. For example, an emperor was called _ when he was referred to in speeches or letters. A. 殿下 B. 皇帝 C. 陛下 D. 圣上 14. Euphemisms are also frequently used in education. If a

12、 teacher describes a student as “being able to do better work with help”, he might mean that the student is _. A. slow B. lazy C. cheating in class D. lying15. The logical relation the sentences below exhibit is _. Are your parents coming to the Expo Sites? Yes, they are. A. coherence B. cohesion C.

13、 connection D. conduction16. What is the logical relation of the sentences below? “Tickets, please. ” said the conductor. In a moment passengers were holding out their tickets. A. additive B. adversative C. causal D. temporal17. Uranium is the god of _. A. heavens and father of Titans B. the sea, so

14、n of Saturn and brother of Jupiter C. agriculture and father of Jupiter D. the sky and the king of the gods18. In contemporary legal documents _ are used thinly. A. loan words B. adjectives C. punctuation marks D. long sentences19. Crossing ones forefinger and middle finger signifies_ in English spe

15、aking countries. A. surprise B. good luck C. victory D. frustration20. In proxemics scholars are particularly interested in the _ between interlocutors in interpersonal communication. A. relative rights B. relationship C. distance D. relative obligationII. Each of the following incomplete statements

16、 is followed by four alternatives. Read each statement and the four alternatives carefully and decide what alternatives can complete the statement and blacken your answer(s) on the ANSWER SHEET. There might be more than one correct answer. (10%)21. Language is not entirely arbitrary. The words which

17、 have association with the sounds or the meaning of the compounds are not arbitrary. Which of the following English or Chinese words are NOT created arbitrarily? A. red B. greenhouse C. 钉子 D. 叮当22. Affective meaning is communicated when the feelings or attitudes are expressed in language. Which of t

18、he following expressions are chiefly used to convey affective meaning? A. My god! B. Its my book. C. You are a liar. D. You are a student.23. Which of the following words have more than one morpheme? A. bees B. map C. her D. nicer24. The personal names related to the date of birth are quite popular

19、in China. Which of the following names can reflect such feature? A. 蒋飞扬 B.贾元春 C. 蔡国庆 D.潘长江25. “To ride ones high horse” means _.A. to be proud B. to be haughty C. to be energetic D. to be arrogant 26. “Purple” in English culture is often associated with_. A. high rank or station B. low rank or stati

20、on C. imperial or royal rank D. something best27. Which of the following is the euphemism of “poor”? A. needy B. underprivileged C. shabby D. disadvantaged28. In the normal text sentences are connected _. A. arbitrarily B. hypotactically C. paratactically D. randomly29. Regulators, which help us to

21、interact with other people, include _. A. head-scratching B. hand gestures C. lip-biting D. head nods30. Human beings have a strong sense of territory and their territories can be classified into the following categories _. A. private B. public C. primary D. secondary非选择题部分注意事项：用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上

22、，不能答在试题卷上。 III. Fill in each underlined space with a proper expression. (20%)31. The thinking in which images are particularly attended to is called _ thinking, which the Chinese people are particularly good at.32. The Thames is a _ in Britain.33. The derivational morpheme in word “teacher” is_.34.

23、Terms of family relationships like mother, father, son, uncle, or more familiar terms like mom, dad, and aunty are termed as standard _.35. The English equivalent for “坐失良机” is “to miss the _”.36. In English _ is often used metaphorically to mean gloomy or dismal.37. Terms of humility are used to sh

24、ow the speakers _.38. Induction means the drawing of a general _ from a number of known facts.39. _ in English is often used metaphorically to refer to a formidably fierce, cruel person, especially a woman.40. Of the five categories of gestures _ are perhaps the most important one because they are i

25、ntentional behaviours with widely agreed meanings in a society.IV. Answer the following questions briefly. (12%)41. What are the properties of culture?42. Both “pretty” and “handsome” mean nice looking. But “pretty” is often used together with “girl”, “woman”, “flower”, etc. “Handsome” frequently ap

26、pears together with “boy”， “man”,“car”, etc. In what meaning are these two words different?43. Give examples to show the differences in what can be advertised between English and Chinese culture.44. How hitchhiking is symbolized in English culture?V. Translation. (18%)45. He is not a man to act rash

27、ly.46. She is in a family way.47. your father(用敬语翻译)48您先请进。49牛皮纸50她是那种宁为鸡首不为凤尾的人。VI. Discuss the following topics. (20%)51. In the United States, the black people used to be called as nigers. which is quite offensive. State the euphemisms of nigers in time consequence.52. Explain the kinds of societies that are divided based on psychological time orientation.