When the vocal cords are apart, the air can pass through easily and the sound produced is said to be ______.
A. voiced
B. voiceless
C. vowels
D. consonants
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The symbol of the US Republican Party is ______.
A. elephant
B. tiger
C. donkey
D. lion
Seeing the object "dog", Chinese will call it "gou", while American call it "dog". This well illustrates ______.
A. the arbitrary nature of language
B. the creative nature of language
C. the universality of language
D. the big cultural difference between China and USA
Which of the following cannot be a proof to the statement "speech is prior to the writing"
A. Many languages do not have a writing system.
B. Children always learn to speak before they learn to write.
C. Blind children have no difficulty in learning to speak but deaf children have great difficulty in learning to read.
D. Modern English teaching emphasizes more on the students" improvement of oral English.
A man shouts "Oh, my god! My promising wife!!" because he has missed an important date. In this occasion, what function does it perform
A. Informative.
B. Interpersonal.
C. Performative.
D. Emotive.