Being able to speak another language fluently is a great___when you're looking for a job.A
Being able to speak another language fluently is a great___when you're looking for a job.
A.chance
B.success
C.interest
D.advantage
Being able to speak another language fluently is a great___when you're looking for a job.
A.chance
B.success
C.interest
D.advantage
Not being able to speak English, they felt rather ______ in the USA.
A.strange
B.puzzled
C.alone
D.lonely
By then we'll be wrestling with another question: how we control all the electronic (6)_____ connected to the internet: trillions of PCs, laptops, cell phones and other gadgets. In Cambridge, we're already working (7)_____ millimetre-square computing and sensing devices that can be linked to the internet through the radio network. This sort of (8)_____ will expand dramatically (9)_____ microscopic communications devices become dirt-cheap and multiply. Just imagine (10)_____ the paint on the wall could do if it had this sort of communications dust in it: change colour, play music, show movies or even speak to you.
(11)_____ costs raise other possibilities too. (12)_____ launching space vehicles is about to become very much cheaper, the number of satellites is likely to go up exponentially. There's lots of (13)_____ up there so we could have millions of them. And if you have millions of loworbit satellites, you can establish a (14)_____ communications network that completely does away with towers and masts. If the satellites worked on the cellular principle so you got spatial reuse of frequencies, system (15)_____ would be amazing. Speech is so (16)_____ that I expect voice communication to become almost free eventually: you' 11 pay just a monthly fixed (17)_____ and be able to make as many calls as you want. By then people will also have fixed links with business (18)_____, friends and relatives. One day I (19)_____ being able to keep in touch with my family in Poland on a fibreoptic audio-video (20)_____; we'll be able to have a little ceremony at supper-time, open the curtains and sit down "together" to eat.
A.electrically
B.electronically
C.automatically
D.technically
Speech, whether oral or written, is a used commodity. If we are to be heard, we must (1)_____ our words from those (2)_____ to us within families, peer groups, societal institutions, and political networks. Our utterances position us both in an immediate social dialogue (3)_____ our addressee and, simultaneously, in a larger ideological one (4)_____ by history and society. We speak as an individual and also, as a student or teacher, a husband or wife, a person of a particular discipline, social class, religion, race, or other socially constructed (5)_____. Thus, to varying degrees, all speaking is a (6)_____ of others' words and all writing is rewriting. As language (7)_____, we experience individual agency by infusing our own intentions (8)_____ other people's words, and this can be very hard.
(9)_____, schools, like into churches and courtrooms, are places (10)_____ people speak words that are more important than they are. The words of a particular discipline, like those of "God the father" or of "the law", are being articulated by spokespeople for the given authority. The (11)_____ of the addressed, the listener, is to acknowledge the words and their (12)_____. In Bakhtin's (13)_____, "the authoritative word is located in a distanced zone, organically connected with a (14)_____ that is felt to be hierarchally higher".
(15)_____, part of growing up in an ideological sense is becoming more "selective" about the words we appropriate and, (16)_____, pass on to others. In Bakhtin's (17)_____, responsible people do not treat (18)_____ as givens, they treat them as utterances, spoken by particular people located in specific ways in the social landscape. Becoming alive to the socio-ideological complexity of language use is (19)_____ to becoming a more responsive language user and, potentially, a more playful one too, able to use a (20)_____ of social voices, of perspectives, in articulating one's own ideas.
A.invent
B.appropriate
C.coin
D.change
If you practise more, you will be able to speak English better.
The ______ you practise, the ____ you will be able to speak English.
A.gesturing
B.handshaking
C.smelling
D.hand-stroking
A) approval
B) obstacle
C) advantage
D) bound
此题为判断题(对,错)。
When we speak of a language as being dead we mean that it ().
A. does not have a written form
B. does not have living speakers
C. has not been translated
D. has been forbidden by the government