A. to do something                                           B. to go touring

C. to obtain something                                      D. to go boating

29. The colour word “red” can be used metaphorically to symbolize ____________in English culture.

A. high military ranks                                       B. embarrassment or shyness

C. communism and revolution                           D. celebrations and joyful occasions

30. “____________” can be used as a euphemism to signify death.

A. Complete                                                    B. Perish

C. To be with one’s parents                                D. To pay the debt of nature

III. Fill in each underlined space with a proper expression.(20%)

31. Only human beings possess what can be called ____________in the true sense of the term.

32. Conceptual meaning is the ____________a word conveys.

33. English uses frequently inflectional morphemes to indicate the ____________relations between linguistic elements.

34. The Chinese meaning of the English name ____________is “ 人类的保护者 ”.

35. The term “text” refers to any piece of spoken or written language, which expresses a ____________ meaning.

36. In American English, the letter “a” in the word “pass” is pronounced as ____________.

37. The study of the ways human beings use and communicate with ____________is      referred to as proxemics.

38. ____________are one type of idioms, consisting of a verb and a particle in most cases.

39. In both similes and metaphors tenor and ____________, the medium through which