[单项选择]Which language is Betty weakest in
A. English.
B. French.
C. Japanese.

[单项选择]
Which language is Betty weakest in

[单项选择]Nowadays the Gaelic language, which is an ancient （　）, is still heard in the Highlands and the Western Isles.
A. Scottish language
B. English language
C. Irish language
D. Celtic language

[单项选择]______ is the effect of language in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated.
A. Metaphor
B. Simile
C. Personification
D. Irony

[单项选择]English is the language which （　）.
A. demonstrates more hypotactic relations than Chinese does
B. demonstrates more paratactic relations than Chinese does
C. demonstrates only hypotactic relations
D. only relies on conjunctions for sentence construction

[单项选择]Which language does Mary speak well
A. Chinese
B. French
C. Japanese
D. English

[填空题]Metonymy is a kind of figurative language which is usually classed as a type of synecdoche. It refers to using the name of part of an object to talk about the whole thing, and vice versa, as the use of "hands" in "We are short of hands".（）

[填空题]Betty

[单项选择] A language is a signaling system which operates with symbolic vocal sounds, and which is used by a group of people for the purpose of communication. Let’’s look at this 【B1】 in mom detail because it is language, more than anything else, 【B2】 distinguishes man from the rest of the 【B3】 world. Other animals, it is true, communicate with one another by 【B4】 of cries: for example, many birds utter 【B5】 calls at the approach of danger; monkeys utter 【B6】 cries, such as expressions of anger, fear and pleasure. 【B7】 these various means of communication differ in important ways 【B8】 human language. For instance, animals’’ cries do not 【B9】 thoughts and feelings dearly. This means basically that they lack structure. They lack the kind of structure that 【B10】 us to divide a human utterance into 【B11】 We can change an utterance 【B12】 one word in it with 【B13】 a good illustration of this is a soldier who can say, e.g., "tanks approaching from the north", 【B14】 who can change one
A. replacing
B. spelling
C. pronouncing
D. saying