语言学部分精选试题_TEM8试题

    本文是根据最新专八考试大纲针对人文知识的要求,从语言学内容精选出的考前自测。
    1.which of the following statements about language is not true?
    a. language is a system b. language is symbolic
    c. animals also have language d. language is arbitrary
    2.which of the following features is not one of the design features of language?
    a. symbolic b. dual c. productive d. arbitrary
    3.what is the most important function of language?
    a. interpersonal b. phatic c. informative d. metalingual
    4.who put forward the distinction between langue and parole?
    a. saussure b. chomsky c. halliday d. anonymous
    5.according to chomsky, which is the ideal user's internalized knowledge of his language?
    a. competence b. parole c. performance d. langue
    6.the function of the sentence "a nice day, isn't it?" is        .
    a. informative b. phatic c. directive d. performative
    7.articulatory phonetics mainly studies              .
    a. the physical properties of the sounds produced in speech
    b. the perception of sounds
    c. the combination of sounds
    d. the production of sounds
    8.the distinction between vowels and consonants lies in             .
    a. the place of articulation b. the obstruction of airstream
    c. the position of the tongue d. the shape of the lips
    9.which is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transcription?
    a. phonetics b. phonology c. semantics d. pragmatics
    10.which studies the sound systems in a certain language?
    a. phonetics b. phonology c. semantics d. pragmatics
    11.minimal pairs are used to                  .
    a. find the distinctive features of a language
    b. find the phonemes of a language
    c. compare two words
    d. find the allophones of language
    12.usually, suprasegmental features include,length and pitch.
    a. phoneme b. speech sounds c. syllables d. stress
    13.which is an indispensable part of a syllable?
    a. coda b. onset c. stem d. peak
    14.which is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and content?
    a. word b. morpheme c. allomorph d. root
    15.which studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed?
    a. morphology b. syntax c. phonology d. semantics
    16.lexeme is                .
    a. a physically definable unit
    b. the common factor underlying a set of forms
    c. a grammatical unit
    d. an indefinable unit
    17.which of the following sounds does not belong to the allomorphs of the english plural morpheme ?
    a. [s] b. [iz] c. [ai] d. [is]
    18.all words contain a              .
    a. root morpheme b. bound morpheme c. prefix d. suffix
    19.the relationship between "fruit" and "apple" is
    a. homonymy b. hyponymy c. polysemy d. synonymy
    20.the part of the grammar that represents a speaker's knowledge of the structure of phrases and sentences is called           .
    a. lexicon b. morphology c. syntax d. semantics
    21.which of the following items is not one of the grammatical categories of english pronouns?
    a. gender b. number c. case d. voice
    22.the pair of words "lend" and "borrow" are
    a. gradable opposites b. converse opposites c. co-hyponyms d. synonyms
    23."big" and "small" are a pair of  opposites.
    a. complementary

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