—Shall we go out for__________walk?
—Sorry．This is not the right____________to invite me．I am too tired to walk．
A．a；moment B．the；situation C．a：place D．／：chance
—Since you can't find a better way out for the time being，why not follow his advice?
—Oh，_____________．
A．I believe not B．I might as well C．It doesn't matter D．I don't care
第二卷
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上英语老师要求同桌之间互相修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。
文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在该词下面写出该加的词。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及修改均仅限一词。
2、只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。
Most families in China hoped their single children will have a happy future, so they are very strict in their
children. So do teachers in school! Many children are given so much homework that they have hardly
any spare time have sports. The children are forbidden to do anything but to study. No wonder such many
children are tired of lessons. Some even attack or kill his parents and teachers! I believe many people
already read this kind of news in newspapers or magazines. Shouldn’t we draw lesson from the accidents?
Now our government is making out a plan to solve the education problems.
---Will you be ____ this afternoon , John?
----It depends. I’ m afraid I’ll be called in by my boss.
|
A．suitable |
B．available |
C．accurate |
D．convenient |
---Will you take these shoes?
---No, they don’t fit me. Show me_____.
|
A．another one |
B．any others |
C．the other |
D．some others |
Speakers of different languages not only describe the world differently but think about it differently too, according to a new study.
Researchers used a cartoon cat Sylvester to study how language was reflected (反映) in the gestures people made. Dr. Sotaro Kita of the University of Bristol’s Department of Experimental Psychology (心理学), showed the cartoon to a group of native English, Japanese and Turkish speakers and then watched their gestures as they described the actions they had seen. He found speakers of the three different languages used different gestures to describe the same event, which appeared to reflect the way the structure of their languages expressed that event. For example, when describing a scene where the cat swings on a rope, the English speakers used gestures showing an arc trajectory (弧形轨迹) and the Japanese and Turkish speakers tended to use straight gestures showing the motion but not the arc.
Dr. Kita suggests this is because Japanese and Turkish have no proper verb to express the English meaning “to swing”. While English speakers use the arc gesture as their language can readily express the change of location and the arc-shaped trajectory, Japanese and Turkish speakers cannot as easily express the idea of movement with an arc trajectory so they use the straight gesture.
Dr. Kita said, “My research suggests that speakers of different languages cause different spatial (空间的) images of the same event in a way that matches the expressive possibilities of their own languages. In other words, language influences (影响) spatial thinking at the moment of speaking.”
68. Researchers watched the gestures the people made because they wanted to know _____.
A. how language was reflected
B. whether they could express the same idea
C. whether they could describe what they had seen
D. how the structure of language changed
69. After watching the gestures of speakers of the three different languages, Dr. Kita concluded that _____.
A. Japanese and Turkish people couldn’t express the meaning of “swing”
B. English was obviously better than Japanese and Turkish
C.no word in Japanese and Turkish could express some ideas of English
D. every language had its own special way to describe things
70. What is mainly discussed in the text?
A. Differences between languages.
B. Differences between gestures.
C. How people use different gestures to express the same event.
D. That language influences the way people think.
