英语八级语言学选择题及答案

1、语言学试题及参考答案一    1. Linguistics is the scientific study of _.    A. a particular language    B. the English language    C. human languages in general     D. the system of a particular language     2. The consonant f in English can be correctl

2、y described as having the following phonetic features: _.    A. voiceless, bilabial, stop    B. voiceless, labiodental, fricative    C. voiced, bilabial, stop        D. voiced, labiodental, fricative    3. There are different types of affix

3、es or morphemes. The affix "ed" in the word "learned" is known as a(n) _.    A. derivational morpheme     B. free morpheme    C. inflectional morpheme    D. free form    4. In the phrase structure rule "SNP VP", the arro

4、w can be read as _.    A. is equal to  B. consists of     C. has  D. generates    5. "I bought some roses" _ "I bought some flowers".    A. entails B. presupposes    C. is inconsistent with    D. is synonymous

5、with    6. Y's utterance in the following conversation exchange violates the maxim of _.    X: Who was that you were with last night?    Y: Did you know that you were wearing odd socks?    A. quality    B. quantity    C. relation 

6、  D. manner    7. Changes in a language are changes in the grammar of the speakers of the language. This means that phonemes, _, words and grammatical rules may be borrowed, added, lost or altered.    A. phrases      B. sentences    C. morphemes D. u

7、tterances     8. In a speech community people have something in common _a language or a particular variety of language and rules for using it.    A. socially      B. linguistically    C. culturally  D. pragmatically9. Which of the major mental functi

8、ons listed below is not under the control of the left hemisphere in most people? _.    A. language and speech    B. visual and spatial skills     C. reading and writing        D. analytic reasoning     10. In general, the _ stage begins rou

9、ghly in the second half of the child's second year.    A. babbling    B. one-word    C. two-word    D. multiword 答案：   1、C 2、B 3、C 4、B 5、A 6、C 7、C 8、B 9、B 10、C语言学试题二1.The famous quotation from Shakespeare's play “Romeo and Juliet” A rose by a

10、ny other name would smell as sweet well illustrates _.(      )  A.the conventional nature of language  B.the creative nature of language   C.the universality of language  D.the big difference between human language and animal communication 2.Of the following sound

11、combinations, only _ is permissible according to the sequential rules in English.(      )  A.kibl            B.bkil            C.ilkb          D.ilbk3.The sentence that has a NP and a VP can be s

12、hown in a _ formula "SNP VP".(      )  A.hierarchical    B.linear          C.tree diagram  D.vertical4.It is the _ on Case assignment that states that a Case assignor and a Case recipient should stay adjacent to each other.( 

13、     )  A.Case Condition                    B.parameter        C.Adjacent Condition                  D.Adjacent Parameter5.Predication analysis is a way to analyze _ mean

14、ing.  A.phoneme          B.word            C.phrase          D.sentence6.According to Searle,those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action are called _.(   

15、  )  A.commisives      B.directives      C.expressives    D.declaratives7.The term _ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages.  A

16、.synchronic      B.diachronic      C.comparative    D.historical comparative8.The way in which people address each other depends on their age, sex, social group, and personal relationship. The English system of address forms frequently used includes first name

17、, last name, title+last name, _,and kin term.  A.title+first name                B.title+title  C.title alone                      D.first name+last name+title9.Language and thought may be viewed

18、 as two independent circles overlapping  in some parts. When language and thought are identical or closely parallel to each other, we may regard thought as "subvocal speech," and speech as "_".(      )  A.vocal thought          &#

19、160;       B.subvocal thought  C.covert thought                  D.overt thought10.Whcih of the following best states the behaviorist view of child language acquisition?_.(      )  A.Language acquisition is a proces

20、s of habit formation  B.Language acquisition is the species-specific property of human beings  C.Children are born with an innate ability to acquire language  D.Humans are equipped with the neural prerequisites for language and language use 答案   1.A       

21、; 2.A        3.B        4.C        5.D     6.A        7.B        8.C        9.D        10.A语言学试题三1、As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze

22、the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for "correct" linguistic behavior, it is said to be _.  A、 prescriptive  B、 sociolinguistic  C、 descriptive  D、 psycholinguistic  2、Of all the speech organs, the _ is/are the most flexible.  A、 mouth&

23、#160; B、 lips  C、 tongue  D、 vocal cords  3、The morpheme "vision" in the common word "television" is a(n) _.  A、 bound morpheme  B、 bound form  C、 inflectional morpheme  D、 free morpheme  4、A _ in the embedded clause refers to the introduct

24、ory word that introduces the embedded clause.  A、 coordinator  B、 particle  C、 preposition  D、 subordinator  5、"Can I borrow your bike?" _ "You have a bike."  A、 is synonymous with  B、 is inconsistent with  C、 entails  D、 presupposes&#

25、160;   6、The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called _.  A、 semantics  B、 pragmatics  C、 sociolinguistics  D、 psycholinguistics 7、Grammatical changes may be explained, in part, as analogic changes, which are _

26、or generalization.  A、 elaboration  B、 simplification  C、 external borrowing  D、 internal borrowing 8、_ refers to a marginal language of few lexical items and straightforward grammatical rules, used as a medium of communication.  A、 Lingua franca  B、 Creole  C、 Pid

27、gin  D、 Standard language 9、Psychologists, neurologists and linguists have concluded that, in addition to the motor area which is responsible for physical articulation of utterances, three areas of the left brain are vital to language, namely, _ .  A、 Broca's area, Wernicke's area

28、and the angular gyrus  B、 Broca's area, Wernicke's area and cerebral cortex  C、 Broca's area, Wernicke's area and neurons  D、 Broca's area, Wernicke's area and Exner's area 10、According to Krashen, _ refers to the gradual and subconcious development of abil

29、ity in the first language by using it naturally in daily communicative situations.  A、 learning  B、 competence  C、 performance  D、 acquisition答案 1、C 2、C 3、D 4、D 5、D6、B 7、B 8、C 9、A 10、D语言学试题四1.The pair of words “lend”and “borrow”are _.(      )  A.gradable oppos

30、ites            B.relational opposites  C.co-hyponyms                    D.synonyms2.The discovery of Indo-European language family began with the work of the British scholar    .(      )

31、60; A.Jacob Grimm      B.Rasmus Rask  C.Franz Bopp      D.Sir William Jones3.A linguist regards the changes in language and language use as _.(      )  A.unusual          B.something to be feared  C.abnormal  &

32、#160;     D.natural4._produce fast and fluent speech with good intonation and pronunciation but the content of their speech ranges from mildly inappropriate to complete nonsense,often as unintelligible.(      )  A.Broca's aphasic      B.The linguistic

33、 deprivation  C.The damage on the angular gyrus      D.Wernicke's aphasic5.Some Southern learners of English in China tend to say “night” as “light”.This shows:    .(      )  A.They cannot pronounce/n/        B.Interlangue int

34、erference because there is notthe sound /n/in their mother tongue  C.The teachers do not have a good teaching method  D.They do not like to pronounce nasal sounds6.A word with several meanings is called _word.(      )  A.a polysemous    B.a synonymous  &#

35、160; C.an abnormal    D.a multiple7.The function of the sentence “A nice day, isn't it?”is _.(      )  A.informative    B.phatic    C.directive    D.performative8.The most recognizable differences between American English and British En

36、glish are in _ and vocabulary.(      )  A.usage          B.grammar      C.pronunciation      D.structure9._deals with the way in which a language varies through geographical space.(      )  A.Linguistic ge

37、ography      B.Lexicology  C.Lexicography              D.Sociolinguistics10.The semantic components of the word “gentleman” can be expressed as _.(      )  A.+animate,+male,+human,-adult  B.+animate,+male,+human,+adult&#

38、160; C.+animate,-male,+human,-adult  D.+animate,-male,+human,+adult 答案   1.B      2.D      3.D      4.D      5.B    6.A      7.B      8.C      9.A      10.

39、B语言学试题五Tick off the correct or the best possible answers: 1 One of the properties of language is that a language user can understand and produce sentences he/she has never heard before. This property of language is called _.A. duality B. productivity C. displacement D. arbitrary Key: B2 The _ functi

40、on refers to the fact that language can be used for establishing a favorable atmosphere or maintaining social contact rather than for exchanging information or ideas. A. phatic B. directive C. evocative D. performativeKey: A3 From a functional approach, the _ meaning of a language use consists of wh

41、at is communicated of the feelings and attitudes of the speaker/writer.A. affective B. associative C. stylistic D. collocativeKey: A4 When -ing in 'gangling' is removed to get a verb 'gangle', we call this way of creating words _.A. suffixation B. back-formation C. blending D. acrony

42、myKey: B5 _ refers to the process by which words rise from humble beginnings to positions of importance.A. Degradation B. Specialization C. Elevation D. ExtensionKey: C6 As we know, every speaker has his own pet words and expressions and special way of expressing his ideas in language. This language

43、 variety of individual users is called _.A. idiolect B. regional dialect C. temporal dialect D. social dialectKey: A7 When pitch, stress and length variations are tied to the sentence rather than to the word, they are collectively known as _.A. intonation B. tone C. phoneme D. sentence stressKey: A8

44、 _ refers to the change of a sound as a result of the influence of an adjacent sound.A. Addition of sound B. Loss of soundC. Metathesis D. AssimilationKey: D9 Basically, all the languages in the world can be classified in terms of language family. Vietnamese and Korean are two languages in the _ fam

45、ily.A. Indo-European B. Sino-Tibetan C. Hamito-Semitic D. Malayo-PolynesianKey: B10 A _ is the minimal contrastive unit in the writing system of a language.A. morpheme B. phoneme C. grapheme D. letterKey: C11 All mono-morphemic words are constituted by free morphemes, and those poly-morphemic words

46、which consist wholly of free morphemes are called_.A. hyponyms B. compoundsC. blends D. allomorphsKey: B12 The requirement that the forms of two or more words of specific word classes which stand in specific syntactic relationship with one another shall also be characterized by the same paradigmatic

47、ally marked category or categories is called _.A. concord B. governmentC. recursiveness D. cohesionKey: A13. The formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another is called _.A. blending B. clippingC. acronymy D. compoundingKey: A14. The distinction of 'ling

48、uistic potential' and 'actual linguistic behavior' is proposed by _.A. N. Chomsky B. F. de Saussure C. M. A. Halliday D. J. AustinKey: C15. The word meaning given in the dictionary is called _ meaning.A. denotative B. connotativeC. collective D. stylisticKey: A16. When we consider the va

49、riation relating to what a user is trying to do with language, we are dealing with addressee relationship-continually categorized as "_".A. tenor of discourse B. mode of discourseC. field of discourse D. idiolectKey: A17. According to words' structures, Turkish is a typical _ language.

50、A. isolating B. fusionalC. analytic D. agglutinativeKey: D18. _ refer to the fact that one type of utterance is typically followed by a special type of utterance.A. Minimal pairs B. Illocutionary actsC. Social dialects D. Adjacency pairsKey: D19. The relation between "dead" and "alive

51、" is labeled as _.A. gradability B. complementarityC. hyponymy D. homonymyKey: B20. The words "encore" and "au pair " are loanwords from _.A. French B. GermanC. Italian D. SpanishKey: A21. The distinction of langue and parole is proposed by_.a. N. Chomsky b. F. de Saussure c

52、. M. A. Halliday d. J. AustinKey: b22 Which of the following is the exception to the feature of arbitrariness of language a. native English words b. borrowed words c. echoic words d. one-syllable wordsKey: c23 Which of the following feature cannot be used to describe the phone s a. voiceless b. oral

53、 c. alveolar d. lateralKey: d24 In terms of place of articulation, the two consonants f, v are _.a. dental b. alveolar c. palatal d. labiodentalKey: d25 In terms of manner of articulation, the sounds p, b, t, d, k, g are _.a. affricates b. fricatives c. bilabial d. oral stopsKey: d26 Which of the fo

54、llowing statements about allophone is NOT correct a. Allophones are different forms of the same phonemeb. Allophones of the same phoneme are in complementary distribution.c. Allophones distinguish meaning.d. Allophones are language specific.Key: c27 Which of the following words is not a free morphem

55、e a. able b. pet c. change d. dustyKey: d28 How many morphemes are there in the word discharged a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5Key: b29 Which of the following words is made up of bound morphemes only a. happiness b. television c. ecology d. teacherKey: c30. Language is passed on from one generation to the next

56、by teaching and learning rather than by instinct. This property of language is called_.a. interchangeability b. productivity c. cultural transmission d. arbitrarinessKey: c31 The famous quotation from Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet' wel

57、l illustrates _.A. the conventional nature of languageB. the creative nature of language C. the universality of languageD. the big difference between human language and animal communicationKey: A32 Of the following sound combinations, only _ is permissible according to the sequential rules in Englis

58、h.A. kibl B. bkil C. ilkb D. ilbkKey: A33 The sentence that has a NP and a VP can be shown in a _ formula "SNP VP".A. hierarchical B. linear C. tree diagram D. verticalKey: B34 It is the _ on Case assignment that states that a Case assignor and a Case recipient should stay adjacent to each

59、 other.A. Case Condition B. Case Parameter C. Adjacent Condition D. Adjacent ParameterKey: C35. Predication analysis is a way to analyze _ meaning.A. phoneme B. word C. phrase D. sentenceKey: D36. According to Searle, those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future cours

60、e of action are called _.A. commisives B. directives C. expressives D. declarativesKey: A37. The term _ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages.A. synchronic B. diachronic C. comparat

61、ive D. historical comparativeKey: B38. The way in which people address each other depends on their age, sex, social group, and personal relationship. The English system of address forms frequently used includes first name, last name, title+last name, _, and kin term.A. title+first name B. title+titl

62、eC. title alone D. first name+last name+titleKey: C39. Language and thought may be viewed as two independent circles overlapping in some parts. When language and thought are identical or closely parallel to each other, we may regard thought as "subvocal speech," and speech as "_"

63、.A. vocal thought B. subvocal thoughtC. covert thought D. overt thoughtKey: D40.Whcih of the following best states the behaviorist view of child language acquisition A. Language acquisition is a process of habit formation.B. Language acquisition is the species-specific property of human beings.C. Ch

64、ildren are born with an innate ability to acquire language.D. Humans are equipped with the neural prerequisites for language and language use.Key: A41. The words "kowtow" and "tea " are loanwords from _.A. Chinese B. German C. Italian D. SpanishKey: A42. The term _ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages.A. synchronic B. diachronic C. comparative D. historical comparativeKe