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[单项选择] Most words are "lexical words", i.e. nouns signifying "things", the majority of which are abstract concepts rather than physical objects in the world; only "proper nouns" have specific and unique referents in the everyday world. The communicative function of a fully-functioning language requires the scope of reference beyond the particularity of the individual instance. While each leaf, cloud or smile is different from all others, effective communication requires general categories or "universals". Anyone who has attempetd to communicate with people who do not share their language will be familiar with the limitations of simply pointing to things, given that the vast majority of lexical words in a language exist on a high level of abstraction and refer to classes of things such as "buildings" or to concepts like "construction".
We lose any one-to-one correspondence of word and thing the moment we group instances into classes. Other than lexical words, language consists of "functio
A. Language has other functions than that of reference.
B. Once a word is grouped into a class, no one-to-one correspondence existsbetween it and what it signifies.
C. Many words refer to objects that do not exist in the world.
D. Function words do not refer to objects.
E. Proper nouns usually refer to unique entities.
[填空题]As the lexical words carry the main content of a language while the grammatical ones serve to link its different parts together, the lexical words are also known as content words and grammatical ones ______.
[填空题]Words are the most stable of all linguistic units in respect of their internal structure.（）
[单项选择]The majority of back-formed words are
[A] nouns. [B] adjectives. [C] verbs. [D] adverbs.
[填空题]Though having little lexical meaning, ______ words have strong grammatical meaning.
[单项选择]The most frightening words in the English language are, "Our computer is down. " You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, "I’m sorry, I can’t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down. "
"If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket. "
"I can’t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so. "
I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, "What do all you people do"
"We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not. "
"So when it goes down, you go down with it. "
"That’s good, sir. "
"How long will the computer be down" I wanted to know.
"I have no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There’s no way we can find out w
A. When the Computer Is Down
B. The Most Frightening Words
C. The Computer of the Airport
D. Asking the Computer
[简答题]What are the most memorable words Lincoln said in a short speech on the occasion of dedicating the national cemetery at Gettysburg in 1863
[填空题]Some of the most important words you must learn and remember are the technical terms used in specific subjects. In a (36) course, for instance, you would need to understand such terms as behaviorism, stimulus, regression, and so on. With an introductory course in (37) , you must spend a good deal of time learning the specialized (38) of the subject.
Text book authors often define a technical word at the same time they introduce it to you. If you should come upon a technical word that is not explained, you can look for its (39) in the glossary of words that may appear in the back of the book. Or look for the word in the (40) that will probably be included in the back of the book. Once introduced and (41) , many technical words may then recur (42) in a book. To escape being (43) by a rising flood of unfamiliar terms, you should mark off and master important technical words as soon as they appear.
