英语语言学期末考试试卷及答案
周幽王简介英语语言学期末考试试卷
第一部分选择题
I.Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A, B, C or D in the brackets. (2%X10=20%)
1. Saussure’s distinction and Chomsky’s are very similar, but they
微信昵称女differ in that ____________.
A. Saussure took a sociological view of language while Chomsky
took a psychological point of view
B. Saussure took a psychological view of language while
Chomsky took a sociological point of view
C. Saussure took a pragmatic view of language while Chomsky
took a mantic point of view
D. Saussure took a structural view of language while Chomsky
took a pragmatic point of view
2. Language is a system of ____________ vocal symbols ud for human communication.
A. unnatural
B. artificial
C. superficial
D. arbitrary
3. We are born with the ability to acquire language, _______________.
A. and the details of any language system are genetically transmitted
B. therefore, we needn’t learn the details of our mother tongue
C. but the details of language have to be learnt.
D. and the details are acquired by instinct
4. A(n)________ is a phonological unit of distinctive value. It is a
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A. phone
B. allophone
C. phoneme
D. sound
5. The morpheme –ed in the word “worked”is a(n) __________ morpheme.蔬菜的英语怎么说
A. derivational
B. inflectional
C. free
D. word-forming
6. WH-movement is __________ in English which changes a
ntence from affirmative to interrogative.
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B. optional
C. lectional
龙年春联D. arbitrary
百花深处影评7. Naming theory, one of the oldest notions concerning meaning, was propod by _________.
A. Grice
B. Plato
C. Saussure
D. Ogden and
Richards
8. “John married a blond heiress.”__________ “John married a blond.”
A. is synonymous with
B. is inconsistent with
C. entails
D. presuppos
一只青蛙一张嘴9. In mantic analysis of a ntence, the basic unit is called
_______, which is the abstraction of the meaning of a ntence.
A. utterance
B. reference
C. predication
D. morpheme
10. In Austin’s speech act theory, ___________ is the act of
expressing the speaker’s intention; it is the act performed in saying something.
A. a perlocutionary act
B. a locutionary act
C. a constative act
D. an illocutionary act
第二部分非选择题
II. Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in One word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given. (1%×10=10%) 11. P___________ relates the study of language to psychology. It
aims to answer such questions as how the human mind works when people u language.
12. A d_________ study of language is a historical study; it studies the historical development of language over a period of time.
13. Language is a system, which consists of two ts of structures, or
two levels. At the lower level, there is a structure of meaningless sounds, which can be combined into a large number of meaningful units at the higher level. This design feature is called d___________.
14. The articulatory apparatus of a human being is contained in three
important areas: the pharyngeal cavity, the o_________ cavity and the nasal cavity.
15. The localization of cognitive and perceptual functions in a
particular hemisphere of the brain is called l_____________. 16. S_____________ features such as stress, tone and intonation can
influence the interpretation of meaning.
17. Phra structure rules can generate an infinite number of
ntences, and ntences with infinite length, due to their r_________ properties.
18. H__________ refers to the phenomenon that words having
different meanings are identical in sound or spelling, or in both.
19. Some important missions of historical linguists are to identify
and classify families of related languages in a genealogical family tree, and to reconstruct the p____________, the original form of a
language family that has cead to exist.
20. In Sociolinguistics, speakers are treated as members of social
groups. The social group isolated for any given study is called the speech c___________.
III. Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or fal. Put a T for true or F for fal in the brackets in front of each statement. (2%×10=20%)
