B. applied… pragmatic D. semantic …linguistic 19. The compound word “bookstore” is the place where books
are sold. This indicates that the meaning of a compound __________.
A. is the sum total of the meaning of its components B. can always be worked out by looking at the meanings of morphemes
C. is the same as the meaning of a free phrase. D. None of the above.
20. Language is said to be arbitrary because there is no logical
connection between _________ and meanings.
A. sense B. sounds C. objects D. ideas
1-5 CBABA 6-10 DDDBC 11-15 ACCCD 16-20 CCADB 第五组
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. 1. Modern linguistics differs from traditional grammar for it is mostly _________.
A.prescriptive B.descriptive C. subjective D. Latin-based
2. A linguist regards the changes in language and language use as ________.
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A. abnormal B. something to be feared
C.natural D. unnatural
3. Which of the following sounds is a voiced affricate? A. [dV] B.[tF] C.[z] D.[T]
4. There are ___________morphemes in the word “disabled”?
A. one B. two C. three D. four
5. In English, “dis-“ is called________?
A. a free morpheme B. a suffix C. an infix D. a prefix
6. Black English is probably the most widespread and most familiar ____ variety of the English language. A. regional B. ethnic C. social D. lower class
7. The pair of words “alive” and “dead” are _____________. A. gradable antonyms B. complementary antonyms
C. relational opposites D. co-hyponyms
8. ____ belong(s) to the Indo-European language family. A. English B. German C. French D. All of them
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9. The sentence “Kids like apples” is a___________. A. two-place predication B. three-place predication C. no-place predication D. one-place predication
10. What is the construction of the sentence: “The baby smiled?”
A. subordinate B. coordinate C. exocentric D. endocentric 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%X10=10%) 11. Language is a system of a ____________ vocal symbols used for human communication.
12. The linguistic study of meaning in the context of use is called p____________.
13. The description of a language as it changes through time is a d___________ study.
14. According to the Swiss linguist F. de Saussure,
p___________ refers to the realization of language in actual use.
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15. The three branches of phonetics are labelled
a____________ phonetics, auditory phonetics and acoustic phonetics respectively.
16. M___________ is the smallest meaningful unit of language.
17. S___________ is a subfield of linguistics that studies the sentence structure of language.
18. The term a________ is used for oppositeness of meaning.
19. S________ is the subdiscipline of linguistics that studies language in social contexts.
20. Variation in language use associated with the sex of individual speakers is called g__________varieties. 答案
1. B 2. C 3. A 4. C 5. D 6. B 7. B 8. D 9. A 10. C
11. arbitrary 12. pragmatics 13. diachronic 14. parole 15. articulatory
16. Morpheme 17. Syntax 18. Antonymy 19. Sociolinguistics 20. gender
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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.F. de Saussure is a(n) _________ linguist. A. American B. Swiss C. British D. Russian 2. Which of the following sounds is a voiced bilabial stop? A. [p] B. [m] C. [b] D. [t] 3. Of the “words” listed below, __________ is not an English word.
A. [spriN] B. [lkbi]
C.[strikt] D. [5U:ziz]
4. The affixes which manifest various grammatical relations or grammatical categories such as “-ing,-est” are called __________.
A. derivational affixes B. free morphemes C. inflectional affixes D. roots
5. The sentence containing two clauses joined by a linking word is called a ____________ sentence.
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