B. can not be combined with other morphemes C. can either be free or bound
D. have to be combined with other morphemes.
28. ____ modify the meaning of the stem, but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word. A. Prefixes B. Suffixes C. Roots D. Affixes
29. _____ are often thought to be the smallest meaningful units of language by the linguists.
A. Words B. Morphemes C. Phonemes D. Sentences
30. “-s” in the word “books” is _______.
A. a derivative affix B. a stem C. an inflectional affix D. a root
31. If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be ______________. A. prescriptive B. analytic C. descriptive D. linguistic
32.Which of the following is not a design feature of human language?
A. Arbitrariness B. Displacement C. Duality D. Meaningfulness
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33. Modern linguistics regards the written language as ____________.
A. primary B. correct C. secondary D. stable 34. In modern linguistics, speech is regarded as more basic than writing, because ___________.
A. in linguistic evolution, speech is prior to writing B. speech plays a greater role than writing in terms of the amount of information conveyed.
C. speech is always the way in which every native speaker acquires his mother tongue D. All of the above 35. A historical study of language is a ____ study of language. A. synchronic B. diachronic C. prescriptive D. comparative
36.Saussure took a (n)__________ view of language, while Chomsky looks at language from a ________ point of view. A. sociological…psychological B. psychological…sociological
C. applied… pragmatic D.semantic and linguistic 37. According to F. de Saussure, ____ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.
A. parole B. performance C. langue D. Language
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38. Language is said to be arbitrary because there is no logical connection between _________ and meanings. A. sense B. sounds C. objects D. ideas 39. Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This feature is called_________,
A. displacement B. duality C. flexibility D. cultural transmission
40. The details of any language system is passed on from one generation to the next through ____ , rather than by instinct. A. learning B. teaching C. books D. both A and B
41. Which of the following theories takes as the origin of language the instinctive sounds of pain, anger and joy? A. the bow-wow theory
B. the pooh-pooh theory D. the Winnie-the-Pooh
C. the “yo-he-ho” theory theory
42. Which of the following is not among Halliday?s theory of metafunctions of language? A. ideational textual
43. The distinction between langue and parole was put forward
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B. relational C. interpersonal D.
by _____. A. Bloomfield Halliday
44. Which of the following is a vowel? A. [p]
B. [f]
C. [?]
D. [m]
B. de Saussure C. Chomsky
D.
45. Which of the following is the correct description of [f]? A. voiceless labiodental fricative B. voiced labiodental fricative
C. voiceless labiodental stop
D. voiced labiodental stop
46. Which of the following vowels is CV8? A. [a]
B. [e]
C. [u]
D. [i]
47. Which of the following is not suffix? A. un
B. tion
C. ness
D. er
48. _____ advocated treating the word as “the minimum free form”.
A. Leonard Bloomfield C. John Lyons
B. Noam Chomsky D. M A K Halliday
49. “Concord” has the same meaning as _____. A. perfective government
50. Which of the following meanings is NOT a term of Geoffrey Leech?
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B. progressive C. agreement D.
A. conceptual meaning C. lexical meaning
B. social meaning
D. thematic meaning
51. Synonymy is the technical term for the _____ relation. A. oppositeness C. gradable
B. complementary
D. sameness
52. What does ?mouse potato? mean? A. a mouse pad potato
C. a potato as food for the mouse D. a computer addict 53. Which of the following meanings are the foci of pragmatics? A. Lexical meaning
B. Propositional meaning D. Contextual meaning
B. a mouse shaped like a
C. Thematic meaning
54. Which of the following lines does not rhyme?
A. Be your wounds like eyes / To weep for the dead, the dead.
B. It was winter such as when birds die / In the deep forests; and the fishes lie
C. Stiffened in the translucent ice, which makes / Even the mud and slime of the warm lakes
D. Gather about great fires, and yet feel cold: / Alas, then, for the homeless beggar old!
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