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“_______”is the contracted form of “God be with you” and therefore carries aReligious connotation.
- A.Illustrators are usually intentional.
- B.Illustrators can not stand alone and have meaning.
- C.Children are active users of illustrators.
- D.Adult English speakers do not use illustrators.
- A.Its intended meaning is expressed clearly and exactly.
- B.Its readability is a serious concern.
- C.Latin and French legal terms abound in English legal documents.
- D.Sentences in legal documents are long and involved.
- A.arbitrarily
- B.hypotactically
- C.paraiactically
- D.randomly
- A.who were younger
- B.who were older
- C.who were higher in socio-economic position
- D.who were less privileged in a specific area
- A.To split one’s sides with laughter
- B.To make a cat laugh
- C.Not for all the tea in China
- D.To love at first sight
- A.What a dull speech! He’s merely parroting what many others have said.
- B.One look at his face and we realized that a thunderstorm was about to break.
- C.I’ll have to stop all these between-meal snacks. I’m getting as fat as a pig.
- D.But this is an odd thing, though he’s impulsive, he’s as stubborn as a mule.
- A.President
- B.Democratic Party
- C.Labour Party
- D.Supreme Court
- A.from the general to the particular
- B.from the whole to the individual parts
- C.from the big to the small
- D.from the abstract to the specific
- A.Abraham
- B.Gerald
- C.Daisy
- D.Arthur
- A.Speech is the primary medium of language, while writing is secondary.
- B.The primary function of language is communication.
- C.Language is used to understand and describe the world.
- D.All human knowledge and experience could be passed on to the younger generations without language.
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As human territory sense is concerned, “mother’s kitchen” can be classified into _______territory.
- A.primary
- B.secondary
- C.public
- D.formal
- A.socio-consultative
- B.casual-personal
- C.intimate
- D.public
- A.Mercury
- B.Jupiter
- C.Earth
- D.Mars
- A.Additive
- B.Adversative
- C.Causal
- D.emporal
- A.Totem
- B.cookie
- C.Santa Clause
- D.woodchuck
- A.“Happy birthday. You are a year older today!"
- B.Calling a woman in her fifties “Grandma".
- C.Asking your colleague how much he paid for his car.
- D.“For registration purposes, I need some information. Would you mind telling me your age?"
- A.Visitors should go up the stairs at once.
- B.Would you mind going upstairs right away, please?
- C.Time you all went upstairs, now.
- D.Up you go, chaps!
- A.departing
- B.sleeping
- C.end
- D.a physical process
- A.My father said that the day I was born was a red letter day.
- B.They needn’t expect to be given the red carpet treatment. After all, it is just a regular visit.
- C.It is just that I see red when I think anyone is trying to muscle in on may property.
- D.Unfortunately, he runs the company in the red.
- A.food
- B.people
- C.plants
- D.love
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A handsome young man, passionate, dashing, who has a way with woman may be referred to as _______.
- A.a Cinderella
- B.a Don Juan
- C.a Sherlock Holmes
- D.Romeo
- A.Expressions of gratitude
- B.Vocatives
- C.Titles
- D.Words of modesty
- A.philosophy
- B.geography
- C.individual
- D.Greco-Roman civilization
- A.branching sentence patterns
- B.linear sentence patterns
- C.holistic thinking pattern
- D.indirect thinking pattern
- A.religious
- B.historical
- C.architectural
- D.environmentalistic
- A.the biggest unit and ends with the room number
- B.the name of the city and ends with the country
- C.the smallest unit and moves to the bigger ones and finally to the biggest unit, the country
- D.the name of country and then writes in a random order
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______consists of associations a word gets from those words that are often used together with it.
- A.Thematic meaning
- B.Collocative meaning
- C.Affective meaning
- D.Connotative meaning
- A.Gesture
- B.Facial expressions
- C.Distance held between interlocutors
- D.Public speeches
- A.conceptual meaning
- B.connotative meaning
- C.social meaning
- D.reflected meaning
- A.Language
- B.Thought
- C.Culture
- D.Communication
