not significant.For instance,wood chess pieces can be less expensive than stone ones.Or magnetic chess pieces can be hung on the wall so that an audience can watch players play. Your reasoning is sound,but is irrelevant to the point we talk about.Our question is what makes a "soldier"a soldier in Chinese chess.Your objection is about the differences in chess material.” Discuss the ways in which words are like the chess pieces. (答案) 41.The discussion should includes the following points: (1)words are also abstract; (2)they can be materialized in a cluster of sounds,or strokes,or letters; (3)words become words,not because they are made of these materials,but because they are used together with other words in communication; the physical sounds or strokes can be important to some people,e.g.calligraphers,but calligraphy has little to do with linguistics. 495not significant. For instance , wood chess pieces can be less expensive than stone ones. Or magnetic chess pieces can be hung on the wall so that an audience can watch players play. Your reasoning is sound , but is irrelevant to the point we talk about. Our question is what makes a "soldier" a soldier in Chinese chess. Your objection is about the differences in chess rnaterial. " Discuss the ways in which words are like the chess pieces. (答案) 41. The discussion should includes the following points: (1) words are also abstract; (2 )they can be materialized in a cluster of sounds, or strokes, or letters; (3)words become words , not because they are made of these materials, but because they are used together with other words in communication; the physical sounds or strokes can be important to some people , e. g. calligraphers, but calligraphy has little to do with linguistics. ) 495