大学英语(二)(21)

B. Comfortable clothes make workers more productive.

C. A casual clothes code is welcomed by young workers.

D. All the employers in the U.S. are for casual office wear.

【 】24. According to this passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A. Company workers started to dress down about twenty years ago.

B. Dress-down has become an everyday phenomenon since the early 1990s. C. “Dress-down Friday” was first given as a favor from employers.

D. Many workers want to wear casual clothes to impress people.

【 】25. In this passage, the following advantages of casual office wear are

mentioned EXCEPT ______________.

A. saving worker’s money

B. making workers more attractive.

C. improving worker’s feeling

D. making workers happier

答案：

21. C 22. A 23. D 24. C 25. B

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Of all systems of symbols， language is the most highly developed. It has been pointed out that human beings， by agreement， can make anything stand for anything. Human beings have agreed， in the course of centuries of mutual dependency， to let the various noises that they can produce with their lungs， throats， tongues， teeth， and lips systematically stand for certain happenings in their nervous system. We call that system of agreements language.

There is no necessary connection between the symbol and that which it stands for. Just as social positions can be symbolized by feathers worn on the head， by gold on the watch chain， or by a thousand other things according to the culture we live in， so the fact of being hungry can be symbolized by a thousand different noises according to the culture we live in.

However obvious these facts may appear at first glance,they are actually not so obvious as they seem except when we take special pains to think about the subject. Symbols and the things they stand for are independent of each other，yet we all have a way of feeling as if， and sometimes acting as if， there were necessary connections. For example,there are people who feel that foreign languages are unreasonable by nature： foreigners have such funny names for things，and why can’t they call things by their right names? This feeling exhibits itself most strongly in those English and American tourists who seem to believe that they can make the natives of any country understand English if they shout loud enough. Like the little boy who is reported to have said:“Pigs are called pigs because they are such dirty animals，” they feel that the symbol is inherently (内在地) connected in some way with the things symbolized.