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The proverb “Man proposes, God disposes." illustrates that_______is an importantsource of proverbs.
- A.patience
- B.emotional stress
- C.worry
- D.not knowing what to do
- A.technical terms
- B.passive sentences
- C.nominalization
- D.verbs
- A.I overslept this morning, so I missed the early bus.
- B.The boy didn’t go to bed until his mother came back.
- C.He dictated the letter. His secretary typed it.
- D.Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 4:24pm today. Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well.
- A.Japanese is particularly rich in honourifics.
- B.Honourifics are language forms used in speeches to show respect to a superior.
- C.There are more honourifics in European languages than in Oriental languages.
- D.Although Chinese have so many grammatical honourifics as Japanese, it certainly has many more than English.
- A.to make one’s flesh creep
- B.mind one’s p’s and q’s
- C.just what the doctor ordered
- D.to miss the boat
- A.His ideas will live on forever.
- B.The seeds of his great ideas were planted in his youth.
- C.I just can’t swallow that claim.
- D.There are too many facts here for me to digest them all.
- A.a young person to an older one
- B.a woman to a man
- C.an inferior to a superior
- D.a group to an individual
- A.president
- B.queen
- C.parliament
- D.congress
- A.environmentalism
- B.individualism
- C.hedonism
- D.collectivism
- A.language is uniquely human
- B.language is arbitrary
- C.language is non-systematic
- D.language is vocal
- A.Pluto
- B.formula
- C.antenna
- D.mathematics
- A.Arabs
- B.Latin Americans
- C.Southern Europeans
- D.Asians
- A.The casual-personal zone
- B.The intimate zone
- C.The socio-consultative zone
- D.The public zone
- A.at the top right corner
- B.below the receiver’s address
- C.at the upper left corner
- D.above the signature
- A.Dutch
- B.German
- C.French
- D.Indian languages
- A.additive
- B.adversative
- C.causal
- D.temporal
- A.Your Majesty
- B.Her Majesty
- C.Your Honourable
- D.Her Excellency
- A.to depart from this life
- B.to perish in war
- C.to sleep in the grave
- D.to be with God
- A.to be skillful
- B.to be clumsy
- C.to perform swiftly
- D.to walk fast
- A.my hands
- B.are
- C.as cold as
- D.ice
- A.a red letter day
- B.red tape
- C.the red carpet
- D.paint the town red
- A.Christianity
- B.Greco-Roman civilization
- C.individualism
- D.collectivism
- A.their parents
- B.historical events
- C.weapon names
- D.their grandparents
- A.John
- B.Barry
- C.Henry
- D.Viola
- A.conceptual meaning
- B.collocative meaning
- C.stylistic meaning
- D.thematic meaning
- A.it is not necessary for every sentence to have a subject in English
- B.the grammatical explicitness and consistency should not be violated in English
- C.simplicity is more important than grammatical explicitness in English
- D.grammatical consistency is more important than simplicity in Chinese
- A.form
- B.order
- C.meaning
- D.logic
- A.Conceptual meaning
- B.Connotative meaning
- C.Thematic meaning
- D.Affective meaning
- A.Language
- B.Thought
- C.Culture
- D.Communication
- A.verbal
- B.cultural
- C.nonverbal
- D.two-way