英语语言学期末考试试卷考卷及答案副本

2021年1月25日发(作者：勒索)
英语语言学期末考试试卷

第一部分

选择题

I.

D
irections:
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.
Saussure
’
s distinction
and
Chomsky
’
s are
very similar, but
they
differ
in
that
____________.
A.
Saussure
took
a
sociological
view
of
language
while
Chomsky
took
a
psychological
point
of view
B.
Saussure
took
a
psychological
view
of
language
while
Chomsky
took
a
sociological
point
of view
C. Saussure took a pragmatic view of language while Chomsky took a semantic point of
view
D. Saussure took a structural view of language while Chomsky took a pragmatic point of
view
2.
Language is a
system of
____________
vocal symbols used for human
communication.
A. unnatural B. artificial
C. superficial D. arbitrary
3. We are born with the ability to acquire language, _______________.
A. and the details of any language system are genetically transmitted
B. therefore, we needn
’
t learn the details of our mother tongue
C. but the details of language have to be learnt.
D. and the details are acquired by instinct
4.
A(n)________
is
a
phonological
unit
of
distinctive
value.
It
is
a
collection
of
distinctive phonetic features.
A. phone B. allophone
C. phoneme D. sound
5. The morpheme
–
ed in the word
“
worked
”
is a(n) __________ morpheme.
A. derivational B. inflectional
C. free D. word-forming
6. WH-movement is __________ in English which changes a sentence from affirmative to
interrogative.
A. obligatory B. optional
C. selectional D. arbitrary
7.
Naming
theory,
one
of
the
oldest
notions
concerning
meaning,
was
proposed
by
_________.
A. Grice B. Plato
C. Saussure D. Ogden and Richards
8.
“
John married a blond heiress.
”
__________
“
John married a blond.
”

A. is synonymous with B. is inconsistent with
C. entails D. presupposes
9. In semantic analysis of a sentence, the basic unit is called _______, which is the
abstraction of the meaning of a sentence.
A. utterance B. reference
C. predication D. morpheme
10. In Austin
’
s speech act theory, ___________ is the act of expressing the speaker
’
s
intention; it is the act performed in saying something.
A. a perlocutionary act B. a locutionary act
C. a constative act D. an illocutionary act
第二部分

非选择题

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%
×
10=10%)
11.
P___________
relates
the
study
of
language
to
psychology.
It
aims
to
answer
such
questions
as how the human mind works when people use language.
12.
A
d_________
study
of
language
is
a
historical
study;
it
studies
the
historical
development of language over a period of time.
13. Language is a system, which consists of two sets of structures, or two levels. At the
lower level, there is a structure of meaningless sounds, which can be combined into a
large number of meaningful units at the higher level. This design feature is called
d___________.
14. The articulatory apparatus of a human being is contained in three important areas: the
pharyngeal cavity, the o_________ cavity and the nasal cavity.
15. The localization of cognitive and perceptual functions in a particular hemisphere of
the brain is called l_____________.
16.
S_____________
features
such
as
stress,
tone
and
intonation
can
influence
the
interpretation of meaning.
17.
Phrase
structure
rules
can
generate
an
infinite
number
of
sentences,
and
sentences
with
infinite length, due to their r_________ properties.
18.
H__________
refers
to
the
phenomenon
that
words
having
different
meanings
are
identical
in sound or spelling, or in both.
19. Some important missions of historical linguists are to identify and classify families
of
related
languages
in
a
genealogical
family
tree,
and
to
reconstruct
the
p____________,
the original form of a language family that has ceased to exist.
20.
In
Sociolinguistics,
speakers
are
treated
as
members
of
social
groups.
The
social
group
isolated for any given study is called the speech c___________.
III. Directions: 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. (2%
×
10=20%)
( )
21.
Linguists
believe
that
whatever
occurs
in
the
language
people
use
should
be
described
and analyzed in their investigation.
( ) 22. Language is arbitrary in the sense that there is no intrinsic connection between
words and what these words actually refer to.
( ) 23. The conclusions we reach about the phonology of one language can be generalized
into the study of another language.
( ) 24. The meaning- distinctive function of the tone is especially important in English