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1、客观自测练习一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. Modern linguistics differs from traditional grammar for it is mostly _.A.prescriptive B.descriptive

2、C. subjective D. Latin-based2. A linguist regards the changes in language and language use as _.A. abnormal B. something to be feared C.natural D. unnatural3. Which of the following sounds is a voiced consonant?A. d B.t C.p D.t4. There are _morphemes in the word “disabled”A. one B. two C. three D. f

3、our5. In English, “dis-“ is called_A. a free morpheme B. a suffix C. an infix D. a prefix6.Black English is probably the most widespread and most familiar _ variety of the English language. A. regional B. ethnic C. social D. lower class7.The pair of words “alive” and “dead” are _.A. gradable antonym

4、s B. complementary antonymsC. relational opposites D. co-hyponyms8._ belong(s) to the Indo-European language family. A. English B. German C. French D. All of them 9.The sentence “Kids like apples” is a_.A. two-place predication B. three-place predicationC. no-place predication D. one-place predicati

5、on10.What is the construction of the sentence: “The baby smiled”?A. subordinate B. coordinate C. exocentric D. endocentricII. 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 o

6、nly, 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. Accordi

7、ng to the Swiss linguist F. de Saussure, p_ refers to the realization of language in actual use.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

8、 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. III. Directions

9、: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and give the correct version. (2%X10=20%)21. Competence and performance mean, to N. Chom

10、sky, much the same thing.22. The basic difference between a vowel and a consonant is that in the pronunciation of the former it is characterized by the absence of obstruction of the airstream and it does not have a place of articulation in the same sense as a consonant.23. In English, nouns, verbs,

11、prepositions and adverbs are open classes since we can regularly add new words to these classes.24. Sentences are strings of words put together in a random order.25. Sense and reference are two terms often encountered in the study of meaning. They are two related but different aspects of meaning.26.

12、 “It is raining hard” is a one-place predication sentence.27. Idiolect is the stylistic variation in a persons speech, or writing, usually ranges on a continuum from casual or colloquial to formal or polite.28. Bilingualism describes a situation in which two very different varieties of language co-e

13、xist in a speech community, each with a distinct range of social function and appropriate for certain situations.29. Commissive, a type of illocutionary speech acts by Searle, means bringing about immediate changes by saying something.30. Utterance meaning is based on sentence meaning; the former is

14、 concrete and context-dependent and the latter is abstract and de-contextualized.练习二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) _

15、 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. spin B. lkbi C.strikt D. desk 4. The affixes which manifest various grammatical relations or grammatical c

16、ategories 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. A. coordinate B. simple C. subordinate D. embedded 6. “Words are names or labels for things.”

17、 This view is called _ in semantic theory. A. mentalism B. contextualism C. conceptualism D. naming theory 7. The semantic relationship between flower and rose is _. A.hyponyms B. hyponymy C. co-hyponyms D. superordinate 8. The words such as handbook and highway are _. A. formed by blending B. coine

18、d by back-formation C. compound words D. derivations 9. X-bar theory is _. A. highly specific and concrete, therefore only useful to solve concrete problemsB. capable of reducing the redundancies of individual phrasal structure rules C. so highly abstract that it can explain all the properties of al

19、l phrasal categories D. inefficient in coping with the language structures other than those of English 10. The words “railway” and “railroad” are _. A. synonyms differing in emotive meaning B. synonyms differing in styles C. dialectal synonyms D. synonyms differing in register II. Directions: Fill i

20、n 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. A person who studies linguistics is called a l_. 12.M_ is the linguistic

21、 study of how morphemes are combined to form words. 13. In modern linguistics, s_ is considered primary over writing. 14. There are two ways to classify consonants: by place of articulation and by m_ of articulation. 15. S_ is the linguistic study of meaning in abstraction. 16. H_ refers to the phen

22、omenon that words having different meanings have the same form.17. The study of language with reference to the workings of the mind is called p_. 18. Vowels can be classified by the position of the tongue, openness of the mouth and l_ of the sound. 19. The notion of linguistic determinism and lingui

23、stic relativism is called the S_ hypothesis. 20. An e_ is a mild, indirect or less offensive word or expression substituted when the speaker or writer fears more direct wording might be harsh or unpleasant. III. Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for

24、 true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and give the correct version. (2%X10=20%) 21. English language is a tone language. 22. A linguistic taboo refers to a word or expression that is prohibited by the pol

25、ite society from general use such as obscene, profane and swear words. 23. Chinese is thought to be the first language by most linguists. 24. Phonology is a branch of linguistics which studies the sentence patterns of a language. 25. Idiolect is a personal dialect of an individual speaker that combi

26、nes aspects of all the elements regarding regional, social and stylistic variation. 26. It is generally accepted that the history of the English language is divided into the periods of old English and modern English. 27. A locutionary act of Speech Act Theory is the act performed by or resulting fro

27、m saying something. 28. According to predication analysis, in the sentence “The man beat the dog.”, the word “beat” is called predicate, and the words “man” and “dog” are called arguments. 29.f is a dental consonant. 30. The transcription of speech sounds with letter-symbols together with the diacri

28、tics is called broad transcription练习三 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 study of language development at some point in time is generally

29、termed as _ linguistics. A. comparative B. applied C. synchronic D. diachronic 2. N. Chomsky is a famous _ linguist. A. American B. British C. Greek D. Swiss 3. In the following sounds _ is a voiceless consonant. A. d B.g C. t D. b 4. In English, “pill” and “bill” are _. A. a phonemic contrast B. complementary distribution C. assimilation D a minimal pair 5. The word “unhappiness” has _ morpheme(s) A. one B. two C. three D. four 6. In English the letter combination “care” in the word “carelessness” is called _. A. suffix B. prefix C. infix D.