综合训练
第一组练习
1）The most important sociological use of language is the __________ function, by which people establish and maintain their status in a society.
A. interpersonal B. performative C. phatic D. metalingual
2）Synonyms are classified into several kinds. The kind to which “fall” and “autumn” belong is called _____ synonyms. A. stylistic B. dialectal C. emotive D. collocational
3) The sentence “John likes ice-cream” contains ________ arguments.
A. one B. two C. none D. three 5) Once the notion of ________ was taken into consideration， semantics spilled into pragmatics.
A. meaning B. context C. form D. content 6) Of the three speech acts， linguists are most interested in the _______.
A. locutionary act B. perlocutionary act C. illocutionary act D. none of the above
7) Most of the violations of the maxims of the Cooperative Principle give rise to _____.
A. utterance meaning B. speech act theory C. conversational implicatures D. none of the above
8) The significance of Grice?s CP lies in that it explains how it is possible for the speaker to convey ______ is literally said.
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A. more than B. less than C. the same as D. none of the above
9) The goal of ______ is to explore the nature of language variation and language use among a variety of speech communities and different social situations.
A.psycholinguistics B.sociolinguistics C.historical linguistics D.general linguistics
10) Black English has a number of distinctive features in its phonological， morphological and syntactic systems which are _______.
A. rule-governed B. systematic C. arbitrary D. both A and B
11）As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use， and not to lay down rules for \， it is said to be ___. A. prescriptive B. sociolinguistic C. descriptive D. psycholinguistic 12) Language is a system of arbitrary _________ symbols used for human communication.
A. cultural B. conventional C. decoded D. vocal
13) A word with several meanings is called _________. A. an abnormal word B. a polysemous word C. a synonymous word D. none of the above 14) There are different types of affixes or morphemes. The affix “ed” in the word “learned” is known as a（n） __________. A. derivational morpheme B. free morpheme C. inflectional morpheme D. free form
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15) The syntactic rules of any language are ________ in number.
A. large B. small C. finite D. infinite 16) “I bought some roses” __________ “I bought some flowers”.
A. entails B. presupposes C. is inconsistent with D. is synonymous with
17）The phrase “boys and girls” belongs to the ____________ construction.
A. predicate B. endocentric C. subordinate D. exocentric
18) Can I borrow your bike？\ A. is synonymous with B. is inconsistent with C. entails D. presupposes
19）Of all the speech organs， the ___ is/are the most flexible. A. mouth B. lips C. tongue D. vocal cords
20）Chomsky uses the term _______ to refer to the actual realization of a language user?s
knowledge of the rules of his language in linguistic communication.
A. langue B. competence C. parole D. performance
参考答案 ：1-5 ABBBB 6-10 CCABD 11-15 CDBCC 16-20 ABDCD 第二组练习
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1. The study of language as a whole is often called ______ linguistics.
A. particular B. general C. ordinary D. generative 2. According to F. de Saussure, _______ refers to the abstract linguistics.
A. parole B. performance C. langue D. language 3. ________ is concerned with all the sounds that occur in the world?s language.
A. Phonology B. Phonetics C. Morphology D. Phonemics.
4. The word “boyish” contains two ______.
A. morphemes B. morphs C. phonemes D. allophones
5. The clauses in a ______ sentence are structurally equal part of the sentence.
A. simple B. complete C. complex D. coordinate
6. Semantics can be defined as the study of ______. A. naming B. meaning C. communication D. context
7. ______ act is the act performed by or resulting from saying something.
A. A locutionary B. An illocutionary
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C. A perlocutionary D. A speech
8. The Cooperative Principle is proposed by ______.
A. John Searle B. John Austin C. Paul Grice D. John Lyons
9. [p] is a voiceless bilabial ________.
A. affricate B. stop C. fricative D. liquid 10. ______ are produced by moving from one vowel position to another through interventing position.
A. Diphthongs B. Consonants C. Vowels D. Individual vowels
参考答案： 1. B 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. D 6. B 7. C 8. C 9. B 10. A
第三组练习
1. _______ is best known and remembered for its contribution to phonology and the distinction between phonetics and phonology. The most influential scholar in this aspect is Trubetzkoy who published Principles of Phonology in 1939. A. The London School B. Traditional grammar C. American Structuralism D. The Prague School 2. Saussure believed that language is a system of signs. This
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