Part 1_ Introduction

Chapter 1_ Introduction to Language and the Law 单元测验

1、单选题:
​  The most widespread system of law in the world is ______.‍
选项:
A:   common law 
B:    civil law  
C:   religious law
D:   both common law and  civil law  
答案: 【    civil law  

2、判断题:
‎   Equity is a body of rules that developed in England separately from the “common law”, but it only exists in countries which follow the English common law tradition. (T/F)‌
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确

3、判断题:
‎  Forensic linguistics does not cover the area of voice identification. (T/F)‎
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误

4、判断题:
‎  Legal English is not English, since it differs from ordinary language in vocabulary, morphology, syntax, and semantics, as well as other linguistic features. (T/F)‌
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误

5、填空题:
‎   Chinese law is a mixture of _______ and ________, i.e.,  a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics.‌
答案: 【 civil law;socialist law

随堂测验1

1、判断题:
‎  The common law legal system is much older than the civil law legal system. (T/F)‏
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误

2、判断题:
 Civil law can be traced back to the Twelve Tables in 5th century A.D. (T/F)‍‏‍
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误

3、判断题:
Many linguistic theories, such as discourse analysis, have been applied in the field of forensic linguistics. (T/F)​‌​
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 正确

Part 2_ Origins

Chapter 2_ Celts, Anglo-Saxons, and Danes单元测验

1、单选题:
‍The Britons seem to have expressed much of their law in legal sayings or maxims, which were in semi-poetic or rhetorical language, often held together by _______. ‏
选项:
A:   analogy   
B:   alliteration 
C:   parallelism
D:   metaphor
答案: 【   alliteration 

2、单选题:
‌  The Germanic invaders spoke closely related languages that came to form what we call ___________ or Old English.​
选项:
A:   Anglo-Saxon   
B:   Germany 
C: Roman
D:   Italian
答案: 【   Anglo-Saxon   

3、单选题:
​  The word ______ eventually began to refer to meetings to engage in pleading exercises and to argue hypothetical cases used in the English Inns of Court to train further barristers.‍
选项:
A:   doom  
B:   moot
C:   deem 
D:    seem
答案: 【   moot

4、单选题:
​  The influence extended to legal matters by the Roman church is the ___________.​
选项:
A:   Dane   law        
B:   canon law 
C:   customary law 
D:   Common Law
答案: 【   canon law 

5、填空题:
Alliteration survived mainly in _______  ________ (something also called binomial expressions or repetitive word pairs).​‎​
答案: 【 conjoined phrases

Chapter 4_ The Resurgence of English单元测验

1、单选题:
‏Much like today’s digests, the _______ consisted of alphabetical headings, followed by synopses of cases dealing with that topic.‍
选项:
A:    abridgment   
B:    precedent
C:   case reports
D:   year books        
答案: 【    abridgment   

2、单选题:
‌The lawyers use _________ to make self-interest to keep legal prose unreadable.‏
选项:
A:   plain meaning role  
B:   conspiracy theory
C:  the doctrine of precedent
D:   plain language role  
答案: 【   conspiracy theory

3、多选题:
‍Early American documents are replete with long _________. ‍
选项:
A:   conjoined phrases 
B:   archaic vocabulary 
C:   exceptions within exceptions 
D: convoluted syntax
答案: 【   conjoined phrases ;
  archaic vocabulary ;
  exceptions within exceptions ;
convoluted syntax

4、填空题:
‍With the development of the ________________, which largely prohibited introduction of evidence of oral discussions regarding the content of the document, this evolution was complete.​
答案: 【 parol evidence rule

5、填空题:
The __________ were compiled by “reporters” in the literal sense of the word: they simply reported speech in the courtroom, including questions of judges and argument of counsel.‌‍‌
答案: 【 year books

随堂测验1

1、单选题:
​  The word that comes from “know” is _____.‏
选项:
A:   bequeath  
B:    witness  
C:   swear  
D:   promise
答案: 【    witness  

2、判断题:
‌The Celtic languages left many traces in English. (T/F)‎‌‎
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误

3、判断题:
‏The Scandinavians borrowed from the Anglo-Saxon the most important legal word in the English languages: the word law itself.  (T/F)‍‏‍
选项:
A: 正确
B: 错误
答案: 【 错误

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