(1)What are the tips for opening a small business?
Ans: Studies have shown that entrepreneurs are persistent, succeed in a challenging environment, and have a great need to be in control.
(2)What traits of people are suitable to open a small business?
Ans: 1.Entrepreneurs are persistent, succeed in a challenging environment, and have a great need to be in coutrol.
2.They are risk-takers who take responsibility and are willing and able to make decisions.
3.They are patient and able to wait until the right time to begin a business.
4.They are able to learn from their mistakes and trust their own judgement.
5.Finally, successful enterpreneurs have positive attitudes.
Friday, May 25, 2007
NOTE of Supplemental Reading-The First Englsh Dictionary
1.When did Italian and French establish their dictionary respectively?
Ans:In 1582, the Italians established the Accademia della Crusca ti "purify" the Italian language. In France, in 1635, Cardinal Richelieu called upon his country to establish the Acamdmie Francaise to give "definite rules"to the French language.
2.Why did Charles esblished a comittee?What was his goals?
Ans:To work toward the standardizaion of the English language. The commitee's main goals sere to pubilsh a grammar of English, to create a lexicon, and to consider ways to standardization spelling.
3.Who and when complied the first dictionary?
Ans:It was compiled and written by Samuel Johnson.
4.How did it differ from word lists?
Ans:First, Johnson's dictionary included more words. His dictionary contained 100000 words, whereas the longest previous word list had contained only 40000 words. Second, his lexicon focused on word usage base on examples taken from the works the works of famous English writers.
Ans:In 1582, the Italians established the Accademia della Crusca ti "purify" the Italian language. In France, in 1635, Cardinal Richelieu called upon his country to establish the Acamdmie Francaise to give "definite rules"to the French language.
2.Why did Charles esblished a comittee?What was his goals?
Ans:To work toward the standardizaion of the English language. The commitee's main goals sere to pubilsh a grammar of English, to create a lexicon, and to consider ways to standardization spelling.
3.Who and when complied the first dictionary?
Ans:It was compiled and written by Samuel Johnson.
4.How did it differ from word lists?
Ans:First, Johnson's dictionary included more words. His dictionary contained 100000 words, whereas the longest previous word list had contained only 40000 words. Second, his lexicon focused on word usage base on examples taken from the works the works of famous English writers.
NOTE of Fixing the English Language
(1) What are the features of old Old English, middle English and Modern English?
Ans:
1.Old English, developed from the Germanic branch of Indo- European language, was characterized by limited vocabulary with word endings that identified the gender,number and case of words.
2.Middle English was distinguished by a large influx of French words into the language, and the shift to more simplifed word forms.
3.Modern English featureda move toward standardization of the language by formalizing both usage and spelling.
(2) In the 17th and 18th century, why did some writers hold a low opinion of Englisg?
Ans:They felt that because French and Latin followed specitic patterns and rules, these languages were more prestigious than English.
(3)How did English writers at that time slove this problem?
Ans:Writers as Jonathan Swift and John Dryden concluded that the corruption they saw in their native tongue could be improved by standardization of the lanuage, so it was proposed the English academy should create a standardization grammer and dictionary for the English.
(4)Describe prescriptive and descriptive grammar.
Ans:Describe grammar objectively described the rules native speakers seemed to follow, and the second kind of grammar prescribe correct usage of the English language.
(5)Examples of the debate between the prescriptivists and the descriptivists.
Ans:According to prescriptive grammar rules set up by Dyden and his colleague, English sentences should never end with a preposition. However, prepositions show up quite regularly at the end of sentences. Prescriptivists also view the usage of "ain't"as a contraction of "am not"as inelegant and wrong, whereas many dictionaries list "ain't"indicating the word is used by speakers of English.
Ans:
1.Old English, developed from the Germanic branch of Indo- European language, was characterized by limited vocabulary with word endings that identified the gender,number and case of words.
2.Middle English was distinguished by a large influx of French words into the language, and the shift to more simplifed word forms.
3.Modern English featureda move toward standardization of the language by formalizing both usage and spelling.
(2) In the 17th and 18th century, why did some writers hold a low opinion of Englisg?
Ans:They felt that because French and Latin followed specitic patterns and rules, these languages were more prestigious than English.
(3)How did English writers at that time slove this problem?
Ans:Writers as Jonathan Swift and John Dryden concluded that the corruption they saw in their native tongue could be improved by standardization of the lanuage, so it was proposed the English academy should create a standardization grammer and dictionary for the English.
(4)Describe prescriptive and descriptive grammar.
Ans:Describe grammar objectively described the rules native speakers seemed to follow, and the second kind of grammar prescribe correct usage of the English language.
(5)Examples of the debate between the prescriptivists and the descriptivists.
Ans:According to prescriptive grammar rules set up by Dyden and his colleague, English sentences should never end with a preposition. However, prepositions show up quite regularly at the end of sentences. Prescriptivists also view the usage of "ain't"as a contraction of "am not"as inelegant and wrong, whereas many dictionaries list "ain't"indicating the word is used by speakers of English.
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