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1、西南大学培训与继续教育学院课程考试试题卷学期：2020年春季课程名称【编号】： 高级英语二【0849】 A卷考试类别：大作业 满分：100分I. Reading Comprehension (20%)Directions: In this part there are 2 passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. W
2、rite your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.Passage 1The creation of the self must, by its very nature, be a cooperative affair. The potentiality for language acquisition and language use appears to be granted as a birthright. But the accident of birth will determine whether the language acquired will be C
3、hinese, Swahili, Spanish, or English. And the same accident will determine the nature of the dialect acquired within the language. These “accidents” assume the presence of people and a culture that together bring the language to the individual.If, then, the individual creates himself through languag
4、e, it is only with the help provided by a sympathetic environment; a mother who encourage him to babble, to distinguish sounds and consequences, and then to utter sentences; and a host of other people who act and react linguistically around him. Gradually as the individual develops, he acquires not
5、only language but what might be called a “linguistic personality”, a set of language behavior patterns that make up a substantial part of his identity as a person different from other persons.The creation of the selfin the sense of the selfs development into a distinctive person with distinctions th
6、at are in large part linguistic (or asserted or fulfilled through language)is a creation of the self in a kind of gross or obvious sense. Few would quarrel with the rough outline sketched above, though some might want to express it in a different set of terms. But there is another, more subtle sense
7、 in which we can speak of the creation of the self implied in Alfred North Whiteheads assertion that “it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind.” Where a nineteenth-century divine, or a twentieth-century philosopher, might refer to “souls”, the modern
8、 psychologist might refer to the sense of an enduring self. This sense is generated, sustained, and preserved in language.1. Whether your mother tongue is English or Chinese is determined by _B_.A. your birthrightB. the culture in which you are bornC. the chance of your birthD. the use of language2.
9、 Ones language development is assisted by all of the following EXCEPT_C_.A. his motherB. a sympathetic environmentC. his language teacherD. other people around him3. “Linguistic personality” means _D_.A. a personality that involves the use of languageB. the behavior of a person who speaks a differen
10、t language from othersC. language behavior patterns similar to other persons who speak the same languageD. linguistic behavior patterns that differentiate him from others4. The two expressions “souls” and “enduring self” (in the third paragraph) _C_.A. have the similar meaningB. mean differentlyC. a
11、re terms of philosophy and psychology respectivelyD. have a religious connotation5. Which of the following is NOT true? _A_.A. The acquisition of a dialect within a language is determined by the accident of birthB. There are still great debates whether language helps the creation of the self into a
12、distinctive personC. In the acquisition of language, one also acquires a set of distinctive language behavior patternsD. Everyone is bestowed with the potential ability of language acquisition and language usePassage 2The most exciting kind of education is also the most personal. Nothing can exceed
13、the joy of discovering for yourself something that is important to you! It may be an idea or a bit of information you come across accidentally or a sudden insight, fitting together pieces of information or working through a problem. Such personal encounters are the “payoff” in education. A teacher m
14、ay direct you to learning and even encourage you in it but no teacher can make the excitement or the joy happen. Thats up to you.A research paper, assigned in a course and perhaps checked at various stages by an instructor, leads you beyond classrooms, beyond the texts for classes and into a process
15、 where they joy of discovery and learning can come to you many times. Preparing the research paper is an active and individual process, and ideal learning process. It provides a structure within which you can make exciting discoveries, of knowledge and of self, that are basic to education. But the research paper also gives you a chance to individualize a school assignment, to suit a piece of work to your own interests and abilities, to show others what you can do. Writing a research paper is more than just a classroom exercise. It is an experience in searching out, understan
