“The Judgment” under the Elms and in the Thunderstorm: A Comparative Study between Desire under the Elms and Thunderstorm

This paper will leave out the question how Cao Yu is influenced by O’Neill and go directly to the text, from the two playwrights’ tragic vision and the fate’s arrangements of the main characters in the masterpieces of the two playwrights, which refracted the differences in the two playwrights’ tragic tension and exposed the"judgment of human nature"and make a comparative study of the two plays.     

Gender Roles: Biases or Differences?

This paper aims to probe into the two distinct gender roles—males and females—in several ways,and further answers the question"what on earth cause the salient differentiation in gender roles,biases or differences?"In conclusion,the author holds that it is the physiological and psychological differences in the two sexes that result in the differed distribution of such vari ous duties which males and females are supposed to fulfill as the current society has expected.     

12-sided One Pound Coins

You＇re travelling to some village. At some point there is a fork in the road. You could go two ways but only one of them leads to the village. Lucky for you there are two men standing next to the fork. But unfortunately one of them always lies and one always speaks the truth and you do not know who is who. Since the men do not really like to help you, you are allowed to ask one of them only one question. Which question should you ask＇？     

“The Judgment”under the Elms and in the Thunderstorm:A Compara-tive Study between Desire under the Elms and Thunderstorm

This paper will leave out the question how Cao Yu is influenced by O’Neill and go directly to the text, from the two playwrights’tragic vision and the fate’s arrangements of the main characters in the ...     

2006上海春季招生英语试卷

第Ⅰ卷(105分) Ⅰ. Listening Comprehension. Part A Short Conversations Directions: In part A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.     

What,according to Michel Foucault,characterizes the order of discourse?

Through his theory,Michel Foucault uses the epistemological approach to answer the question "how?" concerning the colluding concepts of knowledge,discourse,and the order of discourse.He aims at getting to know,almost deciphering,the processes and circumstances of knowledge by answering the question "How do we know what we know?"     

Theories and Practical Ideas on Vocabulary Development

The reasons for choosing this topic are two: 1) Vocabulary development is the primeconcern for both learners and teachers of a foreign language; 2) Personal teaching experiencehas often challenged me with the question how to develop vocabualry more effectively. Thegeneral objective of this writing is to generalize some enlightening information on the specificarea of vocabulary learning and instruction and to bring forward some ideas practical to ourteaching situation.     

An Analysis of Teacher Questions in EFL Classroom

In EFL teaching environment, classroom is the main place where language acquisition occurs. In the classroom, teacher question is viewed as an important constituent of teacher talk. Teacher questions also give impetus to classroom interaction. The quantity and quality of teacher questions have a great influence on learners. However, in China, few aspects of the research on teacher questions have been discussed in some relevant articles. This paper attempts to analyze the characteristics of teacher questions from two aspects: display questions and referential questions. Moreover, it explores the relationship between teacher question and student output. Finally, according to the survey results in this paper the researcher gives some implications and guidance to English teachers.     

Interpretation of Power and Solidarity from Perspective of Pragmatic Functions

Since Brown and Gilman pioneered the concepts of power and solidarity in 1960 and because of people’s continued research in them,the two terms have been fundamental to sociolinguistic theory.What are the pragmatic functions of them? In order to answer the question,an analysis of power and solidarity is conducted in view of deictic terms,address terms,verb patterns,code-switching and style variation and it tries to probe into the pragmatic functions of power and solidarity on the basis of Jakobson’s theory of language functions.     

Feminine Consciousness—From the perspective of Gender Markedness

Some researches have been conducted concerning the Markedness Theory about the marked and the unmarked, from aspects of Phonetics, Grammar, Pragmatic, Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic. Few researches have combined the Markedness Theory with literature theories and even no research has been done to study the Feminism Theory from the perspective of the Markedness Theory. This paper discusses markedness theory with regard to two basic issues: Why it is ok to say"历史"in Chinese, but the equivalent in English is"history", not"*herstory". Why the meaning of"governor"and"governess"is distinctively different? No research concerning the issues from the perspective of markedness has been conducted yet. This paper gives a brief review of the studies concerning the Markedness Theory, on the basis of which the question is aroused.     

“两双”、“口嘴”的意象图式

文章从隐喻的意象图式角度分析"两"与"双"、"口"与"嘴"在语言表达中的同现限制。"两"与"双"的字形不同,它们的意象图式也不同:"两"是平分图式,"双"是配偶图式;"两"、"双"词语在言语交际中的意义和用法也就不同:选择"两"的语境强调"分而为二、两相对立",在选择"双"的语境强调合二为一、配成一对。"口"与"嘴"隐喻投射到对事物域的认识当中,但是各有侧重:"N+口"强调的是"容器通往外界的地方","N+嘴"强调的是"容器中形状突出的部分"。     

《孟子》中“正”“长”“贤”“轻”“良”的形容词用法

通过对《孟子》中“正”、“长”、“贤”、“良”、“轻”5个形容词的语义和语法功能作较为细致的描写,试图从中寻找出《孟子》中不同的形容词在语法功能上的共性与个性,并进一步提出问题,即这些共性与个性的历时和共时的差异,以及造成这些差异的原因。     

从"思辩"经"实证"到"理解"——试比较三种类型的教育研究范式

教育研究大致经历了从哲学--思辩研究范式经科学--实证研究范式到人文--理解研究范式的历程.范式的转换不只是方法的更替,更是哲学理论背景、思维方式、价值取向、研究过程等的变更和创新.本文以众多学者的研究为基础尝试作多方面的比较.     

"吏"与"史"

很多同学容易将"吏"与"史"写混,今天和大家说说怎样区别这两个字. 先说"吏"字吧.在《新华字典》中,"吏"字解释为"旧时代的官员".大家想一想,旧时代的官员们不都戴着一顶官帽吗?在古代,什么身份的人戴什么样的帽子可有讲究了,在官场中这讲究可就更多、更复杂了."吏"字上的一横不正像是那一顶帽子吗?记住这一横,不仅能分清两个字,还把"吏"字的意思记住了,一举两得.     

"自我"的"印象"——析史铁生的长篇小说《务虚笔记》与《我的丁一之旅》

从史铁生的两部长篇小说《务虚笔记》与《我的丁一之旅》的文本出发,重点分析《务虚笔记》小说人物性格,从而通过文字表面的映像,来了解史铁生现实生活经历,发现史铁生最内里的“自我”与“印象”,阐述史铁生小说中的“质疑真实,推崇自我”的哲学思想,发掘文学与哲学的重合方式。