英语报刊阅读进阶答案2023

第四章测试

1.The social constructionist view of language holds that personality or experience cannot pre-date language and that the person is constructed through language. ( )
A:错 B:对
答案:B
2.In Saussurean linguistics, signs have two parts to them: ( ). The former is a word, a spoken sound, used to refer to a thing, and the latter is the thing referred to.
A:knowledge and power
B:power and resistance
C:discourse and power
D:the signifier and the signified
3.Saussure made some important points about signs, including ( ).
A:Signs are the things that populate our mental life, things we may refer to, talk to others about, muse upon, try to describe and so on.
B:The link between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.
C:Once a signifier becomes attached to a signified, this relationship becomes fixed.
D:The meaning of a sign resides not intrinsically in that sign itself, but in its relationship to other signs.
4.The fundamental argument of poststructuralism is that the meanings carried by language are never fixed, always open to question, always contestible, and always temporary. ( )
A:错 B:对 5.Since the meaning of language is shifting, transitory, and contestible, newspaper articles are open to multiple readings. ( )
A:对 B:错