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11. P________ is defined as the study of the phonic medium of language.
12. M________is the study of the way in which words are formed.
13. If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be d__________. 14. The description of a language as it changes through time is a d_________ study.
15. Similar to Saussure?s distinction between langue and parole is the distinction between c________ and performance by the linguist N. Chomsky.
16. Language is p________ in that it makes possible the construction and interpretation of new signals by its uses. 17. The English sounds [m],[n] and [N] are called n_______ consonants.
18. The morphemes such as “-en”, “dis-” and “–ism” are called b_______ morphemes.
19. The words of a sentence are produced one after another in a sequence is the l____________ structure of a sentence.
20. Jane Austin?s Speech Act Theory includes locutionary
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act, illocutionary act and p_______ act.
答案：1. C 2. A 3. C 4. D 5.C 6. D 7. B 8. C 9. A 10. C
11.Phonetics 12. Morphology 13. descriptive 14. diachronic
15. competence 16. productive 17. nasal 18. bound 19. linear 20. perlocutionary 第八组
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. (2%X10=20%)
1.The word “language” is sometimes used to refer to the whole of a person?s language called _________. A. colloquial language B. scientific language C. standard language D. idiolect 2.Which of the following words is entirely arbitrary?
A. bang B. photo C. typewriter D. rumble
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3.Which of the following sounds is a diphthong? A. [ai] B. [t] C[dV] D. [A] 4.“hot dog” with the first element stressed means________. A. a dog which is hot B. a barking dog C. a kind of food D. a dead dog
5.There are _________morphemes in the word” frightening”. A. one B. two C. three D. four 6. In English, “-ate” and “dis-“ are called _________. A. Prefixes B. suffixes C. infixes D. affixes 7. The phrase “boys and girls” belongs to the ______ construction.
A. complex B. coordinate C. embedded D. subordinate 8. The illocutionary act of the utterance “ I promise to come.” is a _______.
A. representative B. expressive C. declaration D. commissive 9.Which of the following two-term sets shows the feature of complementarity?
A. hot/cold B. doctor/patient C. single/married d. husband /wife
10. Which part of the brain is generally considered to control
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language and speech.
A. left hemisphere B. right hemisphere C. front hemisphere D. back hemisphere
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 arbitrary vocal s_______ used for human communication.
12. A linguistic study is p___________ if it tries to lay down rules for “correct” behaviour.
13. Generally speaking, we can divide p______ into at least three branches: articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics and auditory phonetics.
14. The speech sounds can be divided into two broad categories: v_________ and consonants.
15. M___________ is the smallest meaningful unit of language. 16. S___________ is a subfield of linguistics that studies the sentence structure of language.
17. Semantics can be simply defined as the study of m______.
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18. The term a__________ is used for oppositeness of meaning.
19. A predication usually consists of a________ and predicate. 20. The Cooperative Principle includes four maxims: the maxim of q_______, the maxim of quality, the maxim of relation and the maxim of manner.
答案： 1. D 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. C 6. D 7. B 8. D 9. C 10.A
11．symbols 12. prescriptive 13. phonetics 14. vowels 15. Morpheme 16. Syntax 17. meaning 18. antonymy 19. argument 20. quantity 第九组
1. What kind of function does the sentence “How do you do?” have?
A. Informative C. Recreational
B. Emotive
D Phatic communion
2. The famous quotation from Shakespeare's play “Romeo and
Juliet” ?A rose by any other name would smell as sweet? well illustrates ____________.
A. the conventional nature of language B. the creative nature of language
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