According to Saussure, （） refers to the real utterances produced by real people in real situations.

单项选择题AnD is a（）.

A. website
B. team of volunteers
C. band
D. neighborhood

单项选择题By comparison, （）can generate more economic benefits.

A. shark fishing
B. shark eating
C. shark diving
D. shark killing

单项选择题The message the writer attempts to convey throughout the passage is that（）.

A. eating shark fin soup is hazardous
B. overfishing of sharks can have disastrous effects on ocean ecosystems
C. more countries should declare their waters to be a shark sanctuary
D. a balanced ecosystem is a win-win situation

单项选择题Why did they begin to have the idea of creating AnD？（）

A. They were inspired by the movie "The Heavenly Kings".
B. They were touched by the experience of a boyband in Hong Kong.
C. They realized the common straits for most artists in Hong Kong.
D. They decided to address the issues facing artists everywhere.

单项选择题Which of the following statements is true of semantics？（）

A. It will characterize complex sentences on the basis of their structures.
B. Computational semantics lies beyond the scope of semantics.
C. The constituents of sentences consist of meanings and modes.
D. A parent constituent is combined when several child constituents fit together.