西南大学2020年春季高级英语二【0849】课程考试大作业参考答案

西南大学培训与继续教育学院课程考试试题卷 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. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. Passage 1 The creation of the self must, by its very nature, be a cooperative affair. The potentiality for language 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 acquisition and language use appears to be granted as a birthright. But the accident of birth will determine whether the language acquired will be Chinese, 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 language, 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 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 self—in the sense of the selfs development into a distinctive person with distinctions that 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 in which we can speak of the creation of the self implied in Alfred North Whitehead’s 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 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 birthright B. the culture in which you are born C. the chance of your birth D. the use of language - 1 -