Ever since humans have inhabited the earth, they have made use of various forms of communication. Generally, this expression of thoughts and feelings has been form of oral speech. When there is a language barrier, communication is accomplished through sign language in which motions stand for letter, words, and ideas. Tourists, the deaf, and the mute have had to resort to this form of expression. Many of these symbols of whole words are very picturesque and exact and can be used internationally; spelling, however, cannot.
Body language transmits ideas or thoughts by certain actions, either intentionally or unintentionally. A wink can be a way of flirting or indicating that the party is only joking. A nod signifies approval, while shaking the head indicates a negative reaction.
Other forms of nonlinguistic
A. Everybody uses only one form of communication.
B. Nonlinguistic language is very useful to foreigners.
C. When a language is a barrier, people will find other forms of communication.
D. Although other forms of communication exist, oral speech is .the fastest.
[单项选择]Passage Four
After the violent earthquake that shook Los Angeles in 1994, earthquake scientists had good news to report; the damage and death toll (死亡人数) could have been much worse.More than 60 people died in this earthquake. By comparison, an earthquake of similar intensity that shook America in 1988 claimed 25, 000 victims. Injuries and deaths were relatively less in Los Angeles because the quake occurred at 4:31 a.m. on a holiday, when traffic was light on the city’s highways. In addition, changes made to the construction codes in Los Angeles during the last 20 years have strengthened the city’s buildings and highways,making them more resistant to quakes.
Despite the good news, civil engineers aren’t resting on their successes. Pinned to their drawing boards are blueprints (蓝图的) for improved quake-resistant buildings. The new designs should offer even greater security to cities where earthquakes often take place. In the past, making structures quake-resistant meant firm ye
A. new computers had been installed in the buildings
B. it occurred in the residential areas rather than on the highways
C. large numbers of Los Angeles residents had gone for a holiday
D. improvements had been made in the construction of buildings and highways
[单项选择]According to the passage, the author mentioned that "when once the staff of the Historic American Engineering Record wished to have drawings made of machines and isometric views of industrial processes for its historical record of American engineering" in order to ______.
A. point out the inability of engineering students.
B. point out the omission of conventional engineering lessons.
C. praise the architectural schools.
D. encourage contests of such kind.
[单项选择] Passage Four
We walked in so quietly that the nurse
at the desk didn’t even lift her eyes from the book. Mum pointed at a big chair
by the door and I knew she wanted me to sit down. While I watched, mouth open in
surprise, Mum took off her hat and coat and gave them to me to hold. She walked
quietly to the small room by the lift and took out a wet mop. She pushed the mop
past the desk and as the nurse looked up, Mum nodded and said, "Very dirty
floors."
"Yes. I’m glad they’ve finally decided to clean them,"
the nurse answered: She looked at Mum strangelyand said, "But aren’t you working
late"
Mum just pushed harder, each swipe of the mop taking her
farther and farther down the hall. I watched until she was out of sight and the
nurse had turned back to writing in the big book.
After a long
time Mum came back. Her eyes were shining. S
A. to clean the floor
B. to please the nurse
C. to see a patient
D. to surprise the story-teller
[单项选择]
Passage Two Few numbers tell a happier story than those that measure life expectancy. An American born in 1900 could expect to live 47 years. Thanks to colossal improvements in sanitation and medicine, that figure is now 75 for men and 80 for women. 71 So it is both alarming and surprising when life expectancy falls, even for a small part of the population. Yet that is what some researchers at Harvard have found. They looked at death rates by county, having corrected for migration and merged sparsely populated ones so that America’s 3, 141 counties became 2, 068 “county units. ” 72 But between 1983 and 1999, it fell significantly(by about a year)for women in 180 county units, and stagnated in another 783. Men fared less poorly: their life expectancy fell significantly in only 11county units, and stagnated in another 48. Put differently, life expectancy appears to have either stagnated or fallen slightly for some 4% of American men and 19% of women. The
A. Another function of advertising is to communicate information about the product, its attributes, and its location of sale; this is the information function.
B. The forms that advertising takes and the media in which advertisements appear are as varied as the advertisers themselves and the messages that they wish to deliver.
C. An especially important issue in the creation of advertising is related to understanding how much information consumers want about a given product.
D. Advertising may influence consumers in many different ways, but the primary goal of advertising is to increase the probability that consumers exposed to an advertisement will behave or believe as the advertiser wishes.
E. Advertising also exists on billboards along the freeway, in subway and train stations, on benches at bus stops, and on the frames around car license plates.
F. The pervasiveness of advertising and its creative elements are designed to cause viewers to take note.
[单项选择] Passage 2
In the old days, sending a thank-you
note to a relative was easy. You wrote it, (1) , a stamp on
the envelope and dropped it (2) a mailbox. (3)
it went in a red-white-and-blue U.S. Mail truck, and (4)
of days later the friendly neighborhood mailman walked it,
(5) . weather, right to the recipient’s door.
(6) you’re as likely to send a fax, e-mail, or
instant message. (7) you cling to traditional pen and paper,
it’s no longer clear (8) it will travel. Airborne Express
Overnight Two-Day Priority
(9) it moves
into the 1st century, the American mail system (13) to
survive. In the past few years, the U.S. Postal Service(USPS) has (11)
many new services, (12) stamps over the Internet,
electronic bill payment, and a service that prints and
A. made
B. made up
C. made up of
D. made out of
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