安徽科技学院20122013学年第二学期《大学英语四级》（统招）期终试卷（A卷】 装 订… 线 专业 级 班姓名 学号 得分」 密封…线. B):the schools are struck hard by a flood for tharn B):wealthy American grants'children should be paid by B):Dallas,Oklahoma,Arkansas and Arizona sl the following EXCEP of the above A):there ill be more llegal immigrants in most of the states in USA D} Thehtdne uanche B)Negative C):favorable D):sympathetic Passage Two Questions 21 to25 are based on the following passage: scentifi controversy:Whether na land They robe rrent inte rd sign language has roots in the pion ngwork of on When Bill Stroke went to Gallaudet to teachEnglish.the sho couse in signing But Stroke noticed r signing as materials on ASLand the deaf cuture the Galaudet w he studied a e nK t be base on the and apan an approach to simplifying the grammatical of a language 又m变 a fan cholar in the study of the hun an brain B)lding specialist in the study some senior experts in American Sign Language B):a genuine language ni sign language was not too artificial to be widely accepted e and to understan ound s a pr 第3页共7到安徽科技学院 2012~2013 学年第二学期《大学英语四级》（统招）期终试卷（A 卷） ………………………………装…………订…… …线………………………………… 专业 级 班 姓名 学号 得分 …………………………………密…………封…………线……………………………… 第 3 页 共 7 页 B): the schools are struck hard by a flood C): the schools are burdened with economics problems D): children of illegal immigrants come to the schools in great numbers 17. From the passage, we can infer that American public schools are funded by＿＿ A): the president B): wealthy American C): tax payers D): immigrants 18. According to the writer, the cost of the education of illegal immigrants’ children should be paid by＿＿ A): Texas B): Dallas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Arizona C): Maine and Alaska D): none of the above 19. The passage suggests all the following EXCEPT that ＿＿ A): there will be more illegal immigrants in most of the states in USA B): illegal immigrants get better pay in the USA than in their homeland C): illegal immigrants’ children must be provided with some of the benefits of American public-school education D): Americans are neither legally nor morally obliged to provide free education to illegal immigrants’ children 20. The attitude of the writer towards providing free education to illegal immigrants’ children is ＿＿ A): indifferent B): Negative C): favorable D): sympathetic Passage Two Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage: Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed language are unique—a speech of the land. They offer a new way to probe how the brain generates and understand language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy: whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C, the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people. When Bill Stroke went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course in signing. But Stroke noticed something odd; among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher. Stroke has been taught a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a sort of Pidgin English. But Stroke believed the “hand talk” his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people actually have a genuine language? And could that language be unlike any other on earth? It was 1995, when even deaf people dismissed their signing as “substandard”. Stroke’s idea was academic heresy. It is 37 years later. Stroke –now devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals an to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture—having lunch at a café’ near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he studied a revolution. For decades educators fought his idea that signed languages are natural language like English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech, the modulation of sound. But sign language is based on the moments of hands, the modulation of space. “What I said,” Stroke explains,” is that language is not mouth stuff—it’s brain stuff.” 21. The study of sign language is thought to be＿＿ A): a new way to look at the learning of language B): a challenge to traditional views on the nature of language C): an approach to simplifying the grammatical structure of a language D): an attempt to clarify misunderstanding about the origin of language 22. The present growing interest in sign language was stimulated by＿＿ A): a famous scholar in the study of the human brain B): a leading specialist in the study of liberal arts C): an English teacher in a university for the deaf D): some senior experts in American Sign Language 23. According to Stroke, sign language is＿＿ A): a substandard language B): a genuine language C): an artificial language D): an international language 24. Most educators objected to Stroke’s idea because they thought＿＿ A): sign language was not extensively used even by deaf people B): sign language was not too artificial to be widely accepted C): a language should be easy to use and to understand D): a language could only exist in the form of speech sounds 25. Stroke’s argument is based on his belief that＿＿ A): sign language is as efficient as any other language B): sign language is derived from natural language C): language is a system of meaningful codes D): language is a product of the brain