1. Which of the following words is entirely arbitrary?__________
A. tree    B. crash    C. typewriter    D. bang
2. ________ made the distinction between competence and performance.
A. Saussure    B. Chomsky    C. Bloomfield    D. Sapir
3. Conventionally a ______ is put in slashes.
  A. allophone    B. phone    C. phoneme    D. morpheme
4. The word “hospitalize” is an example of __________.
  A. compound    B. derivation    C. inflection    D. blending
5. Constituent sentences is the term used in ___________.
  A. structural linguistics    B. functional analysis    C. TG Grammar    D. traditional grammar
6. Cold and hot is a pair of ___________ antonyms.
  A. gradable    B. complementary    C. reversal    D. converse
7. According to Searle, those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action are called________.
A. commissives    B. directives    C. expressive    D. declaratives
8. Speech variety may be used instead of _______.
  A. vernacular language, dialect, pidgin, creole    B. standard language
  C. both A and B    D. none of the above
9.______ deals with how language is acquired, understood and produced.
  A. Sociolinguistics    B. Psycholinguistics    C. Pragmatics    D. Morphology
10. Discovering procedures are practiced by ________.
  A. descriptive grammar    B. TC Grammar    C. traditional grammar    D. functional grammar
11. The function of the sentence “Water boils at 100 degrees centigrade” is _________.
  A. interrogative    B. directive    C. informative    D. performative
12. _________ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.
  A. Parole    B. Langue    C. Speech    D. Writing
13. The opening between the vocal cords is sometimes referred as _________.
replaceable  A. glottis    B. vocal cavity    C. pharynx    D. uvula
14. ________ refers to the study of the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed.
  A. Morphology    B. Syntax    C. Semantics    D. Phonology
15. “When did you stop taking this medicine?” is an example of _________in sense relationships.
  A. entailment    B. presupposition    C. assumption    D. implicature
16. Idioms are ________.
  A. sentences    B. naming units    C. phrases    D. communication units
17. An illocutionary act is identical with________.
  A. sentence meaning        B. the speaker’s intention
  C. language understanding        D. the speaker's competence
18. In sociolinguistics, ______ refers to a group of institutionalized social situations typically constrained by a common set of behavioral rules.
  A. domain    B. situation    C. society    D. community
19. ______ refers to the gradual and subconscious development of ability in the first language by using it naturally communicative situations.
  A. Learning    B. Competence    C. Performance    D. Acquisition
20. In which of the following stage did Chomsky add the semantic component to his TG Grammar for the first time? __________
  A. The Classic Theory        B. The Standard Theory
  C. The Extended Standard Theory    D. The Minimalist Program
1. In Chinese when someone breaks a bowl or a plate the host or the people present are likely to say sui sui ping an (every year be safe and happy)as a means of controlling the f
orces which the belivers feel might affect their lives. Which function does it perform? __________
  A. interrogative    B. Emotive    C. Performative    D. Recreational
2. Which of the following properties of language enables language users to overcome the barriers caused by time and place, due to this feature of language, speakers of a language are free to talk about anything in any situation? ___________
  A. Interchangeable    B. Duality    C. Displacement    D. Arbitrariness.
3. Which of the following is not the major branch of linguistics? ___________
  A. Phonology    B. Pragmatics    C. Syntax    D. Speech
4._______ deals with language application to other fields, particularly education.
  A. Linguistic geography    B. Sociolinguistics
  C. Applied linguistics    D. Comparative linguistics
5. A phoneme is a group of similar sounds called_________.
  A. minimal pairs    B. allomorphs    C. phones    D. allophones
6. Which one is different from the others according to manners of articulation? _________
  A. [z]    B. [w]    C. [h]    D. [v]
7.________ doesn’t belong to the most productive means of word-formation.
  A. Affixation    B. Compounding    C. Conversion    D. Blending
8. Nouns, verbs, and adjectives can be classified as __________.
  A. lexical words        B. grammatical words   

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