2009年10月浙江自考语言与文化真題00838

全国2009年1 0月高等教育自学考试

语言与文化试题

课程代码：00838

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%)

1. “A Chauvinist pig” refers to a person who believes that women are ______.(     )

A. prone to tears B. sociable

C. frail D. inferior

2. A hot, freshly cooked sausage sandwiched in a split roll of bread is called ______.(     )

A. hamburger B. sandwich

C. hot dog D. pudding

3. Language is ______.(     )

A. the product of the human brain B. rule governed

C. independent of culture D. the result of social institutions

4. Language is used for communication in that communication is the ____ function of language.(     )

A. primary B. peripheral

C. medium D. personal

5. Which of the following statements is NOT true?(     )

A. English is a language with explicit grammar and Chinese is a language with implicit grammar.

B. Compared with Chinese, English has more grammatical morphemes that are used more frequently in either speech or writing.

C. Chinese has no grammatical morphemes.

D. Grammatical explicitness and consistency are required in English.

6. English is the language which ______.(     )

A. demonstrates more hypotactic relations than Chinese does

B. demonstrates more paratactic relations than Chinese does

C. demonstrates only hypotactic relations

D. only relies on conjunctions for sentence construction