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官方真题Official9托福听力Lecture4题目文本

Question 1 of 6

What does the professor mainly discuss?

A. The findings of a study on prairie dog communication.

B. The way that mammals learn to make warning cries.

C. Features that distinguish language from animal communication systems.

D. Various types of signal used by animals to communicate with each other.

Question 2 of 6

Why does the student mention a research project she studied in a biology class?

A. To point out similarities in the behavior of rodents and monkeys.

B. To explain how she first became interested in animal communication.

C. To introduce an instance of an animal species that might have language.

D. To show how she applied her knowledge of linguistics in another course.

Question 3 of 6

What is the professor's opinion of a recent study of prairie dogs?

A. She finds the study interesting but is not convinced that prairie dogs can communicate.

B. She thinks that some claims made by the researchers are not supported by their findings.

C. She sees the study as proof that mammals other than humans possess a form of language.

D. She thinks the researchers misinterpreted the high-pitched barks as warming signals.

Question 4 of 6

What does the professor say about the individual units that make up human languages?

A. They can be combined to create an infinite number of new messages.

B. They are not capable of being reproduced by members of any other species.

C. They function in the same way as the signals all animals use to communicate.

D. They are acquired instinctively without having to be learned.

Question 5 of 6

The professor uses the sentence, “Move the large coyote fast”, in order to illustrate two features of language. What are they?Click on 2 answers.

A. Displacement.

B. Learnability.

C. Productivity.

D. Discreteness.

Question 6 of 6

Why does the professor say this?

A. To see if anyone knows the answer to the student's question

B. To suggest that the student’s using the wrong terminology

C. To express frustration because she has already answered a similar question

D. To determine whether she has been speaking clearly enough

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