简答题Personal pronouns followed by an ordinary modal verb, are much more clear and intelligible than longer impersonal expression.简答题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 _______. A、analogy B、alliteration C、parallelism D、metaphor简答题How does the lawyers in the United States pronounce the “defendant”? A、de fendant B、defend ant C、defen dant D、defen dant简答题The “conversation” between the lawyer and witness is also unusual in that it consists of virtually nothing but questions and answers.简答题A related reason for not modernizing archaic legal texts is that specific words and phrases may have received authoritative interpretations over the years.简答题The formalized phrases of Law French were regarded as a convenient shorthand for summarizing legal arguments on paper.简答题The most widespread system of law in the world is ______. A、common law B、civil law C、religious law D、both common law and civil law简答题A standard provision that is routinely added to a particularly type of document is called ________. A、boilerplate B、precedent C、abridgment简答题One of the main justifications for continued use of antiquated vocabulary is that it is more precise than the modern equivalent.简答题The lawyers use _________ to make self-interest to keep legal prose unreadable. A、abridgment B、precedent C、case reports简答题The present tense shall include the future, and sometimes the past, and the singular shall include the plural, and vice versa.简答题When the jury is given some guidance on how to decide the defendant’s fate, it has a serious flaw: its reliance on the technical terms (1) and (2).简答题In Anglo-Saxon England, legal language was almost entirely oral; any writing was simply a record or evidence of the spoken event.简答题The complexity of sentences is mainly related to the length of sentences.简答题The word that comes from “know” is _____. A、bequeath B、witness C、swear D、promise简答题There have been dozens of people who have been condemned to die by juries who poorly understand the legal principle that were supposed to guide their decision.简答题The (1) would suggest that lawyers employ highly stilted, formal and redundant legal prose to create the impression that drafting legal documents is far more complex than it really is.简答题The long sentences and complex sentences have many (1) and (2) phrases.简答题Many linguistic theories, such as discourse analysis, have been applied in the field of forensic linguistics.简答题Even though many lawyers espouse plain language in theory, they seem reluctant to change their style in practice.