语言学选择题

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语言学
A__ is the study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation.
A. Phonology
B. Lexicography
C. Lexicology
D. Morphology
C2. ___C_ is defined as the scientific study of language, studying language in general.
A. Psycholinguistics
B. Neurolinguistics
C. Linguistics
D. Phonetics
B3. Which of the linguistic items listed below is best described as the smallest unit of meaning
A. the word
B. the morpheme
C. the phoneme
D. the clause
B4. A prefix is an affix which appears ____.
A. after the stem
B. before the stem
C. in the middle of the stem
D. below the stem
C 5. Which of the following is true ____
A. Phonetics is the study of pronunciation.
B. Phonetics is the scientific study of the movement of sound waves.
C. Phonetics is the scientific study of the sounds of language.
D. Phonetics is the scientific study of the organs of speech.
D6. “What’s in a name That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,” (Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2, 43~5)
To what characteristic of language dose Shakespeare refer ___
A. Creativity
B. Productivity
C. Duality
D. Arbitrariness
A7. Language, as a system, consists of two sets of structures or two levels, which is known as ____, one of a design features of human language.
A. Duality
B. Displacement
C. Productivity
D. Arbitrariness
D8. The different members of a phoneme, sounds which are phonetically different but do not make one word different from another in meaning, are ____.
A. phonemes
B. phones
C. sounds
D. allophones
A9. What is complementary distribution ____
A. Different places of occurrence of allophones within a word.
B. When a phone can only occur at the end of a word.
C. When an allophone occurs at the beginning of a word.
D. Contrastive distribution of allophones
D10. ___ deals with the analysis and creation of words, idioms and collocations.
A. Morpheme
B. Vocabulary
C. Root
D. Lexicon
B1. Cold and hot are called ____ antonyms.
A. complementary
B. gradable
C. reversal
D. converse
C2. “I regret that I can’t help you.” This is an example of __ _.
A. representatives
B. directives
C. expressives
D. commissives
D. What is the duality of the language ____
A. Letters and sounds
B. Sounds and symbols
C. Symbols and meaning
D. sounds and meaning
A4. “I bought some roses” ___ “I bought some flowers”.
A. entails
B. presupposes
C. is inconsistent with
D. is synonymous with
C5. Of the following linguists, ____ should be grouped into Prague School.
A. Bloomfield
B. Saussure
C. Jakobson
D. Firth
C6. Damage in and around the angular gyrus of the parietal lobe often causes the impairment of reading and writing ability, which is often referred to as acquired ____.
A. diglossia
B. aphasia
C. dyslexia
D. dysgraphia
A7. ____ A Dictionary of the English Language established a uniform standard for the spelling and word use.
A. Samuel Johnson’s
B. Bishop Lowth’s
C. Firth’s
D. Samuel John’s
B8. What is phonology ____
A. The study of how speech sounds are made, transmitted and received
B. The study of the function, behavior and organization of speech sounds as linguistic items.
C. The study of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
D. The study of all possible speech sounds.
D9. The morpheme “cast” in the common word “telecast” is a (n) ____.
A. bound morpheme
B. bound form
C. inflectional morpheme
D. free morpheme
D10. A phoneme is ____.
A. a set of different realization of a phone
B. a set of contrastive allophones in free variation
C. a set of phones in complementary distribution
D. a set of phonetically similar noncontrastive phones
A1. Firstly, to which of these language groups dose English belong ____
A. Germanic
B. Slavonic
C. romance
D. Baltic
D2. What is defined as “the study of sentence structure” ___
A. Morphology
B. Semantics
C. Phonology
D. Syntax
D3. According to Krashen, ___ refers to the gradual and subconscious development of ability in the first language by using it naturally in daily communicative situations.
A. learning
B. competence
C. performance
D. acquisition
C4. There are different types of affixes 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
C5. ____ studies the total stock of morphemes of a language, especially those items which have clear semantic references.
A. Phonology
B. Lexicology
C. Morphology
D. Lexicography
A6. As a type of linguistic system in L2 learning, ____ is a product of L2 training, mother tongue interference, overgeneralization of the target language rules, and learning and communicative strategies of the learner.
A. interlanguage
B. interference
C. language transfer
D. linguistic relativity
A7. ____ means the lack of a logical connection between the form of something and its expression in sounds.
A. Arbitrariness
B. Abstractness
C. Ambiguity
D. Fuzziness
B8. 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 comparative
D9. When a speech sound changes and becomes more like another sound that follows or precedes it, it is said to be ____.
A. nasalized
B. voiced
C. aspirated
D. assimilated
C10. F. de Saussure is a (n) ____ linguist.
A. American
B. British
C. Swiss
D. Russian
A1. N. Chomsky is a (n) ____ linguist.
A. American
B. Canada
C. Swiss
D. French
B2. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis has two thrusts: ___ and ____.
A. Linguistic description, Linguistic determinism
B. Linguistic determinism, Linguistic relativity
C. Linguistic relativity, Linguistic description
D. Linguistic determinism, Linguistic performance
A3. A special language variety that mixes or blends languages and used by people who speak different language for restricted purpose is ____.
A. pidigin
B. creole
C. dialect
D. blends
B4. By ____, we refer to word forms which differ from each other only by one sound, . “pin” and “bin”.
A. complementally distribution
B. minimal pair
C. Adjacency pair
D. code—switching
A5. When two sounds never occur in the same environment they said to be in ___.
A. complementary distribution
B. free variation
D6. ___ century is considered to be the beginning of Modern English.
A. 18th
B. 17th
C. 19th
D. 16th
B7. Conventionally a __ __ is put in slashes.
A. allophone
B. phoneme
C. phone
D. morpheme
D8. __ __ is a principle of scientific method, based on the belief that the only things valid enough to confirm or refute o scientific theory are interpersonally observable phenomena, rather than people’s introspections or intuitions.
A. Mentalism
B. Functional grammar
C. Case grammar
D. Behaviorism
C9. According to Searle, those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action are called __C.
A. expressives
B. directives
C. commisives
D. declaratives
*C 10. A __ _ is often seen as part of a word, but it can never stand by itself although it bears clear, definite meaning.
A. morpheme
B. word
C. root
D. phoneme
D1. Linguistics is the scientific study of ___.
A. a particular language
B. the English language
C. human language in general
D. the system of a particular language
A2. __ __ is the language that a learner constructs at a given stage of SLA.
A. Interlanguage
B. Ideology
C. Dialect
D. Interference
B3. Phonological rules that govern the combination of sounds in a particular language are called __ _ rule.
A. Deletion
B. Sequential
C. superasegmental
D. Assimilation
B 4. “There is no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers to”. This is the __ view concerning the study of meaning.
A. naming theory
B. conceptualist
C. contextualist
D. behaviorist
A5. English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, etc. , in terms of _.
A. manner of articulation
B. openness of mouth
C. place of articulation
D. voicing
A6. According to Chomsky, _ __ is the ideal user’s internalized knowledge of his language.
A. competence
B. parole
C. performance
D. langue
A7. __ is not a suprasegmental feature.
A. Aspiration
B. Intonation
C. Stress
D. Tone
A8 __ is a phenomenon that L2 learners subconsciously use their L1language in their learning process.
C. Interference
D. Cooperative
C9. _ are affixes added to an existing form to create a new word, . in-,-er.
A. inflectional morpheme
B. free morpheme
C. derivational morpheme
D. root
B10. Writing is the secondary language form based on ___.
A. sound
B. speech
C. gesture
D. sign
C1. ____ covers the study of language use in relation to context, and in particular the study of linguistic communication.
A. Semantics
B. Sociolinguistics
C. Pragmatics
D. Linguistics
A2. Morphemes that represent “tense”, “number”, “gender”, “case” and so on are called ____ morphemes.
A. inflectional
B. free
C. bound
D. derivational
C3. Which of the following is not a compound word ___
A. clearway
B. rainbow
C. scarcity
D. without
A4. The fact that ability to speak a language is transmitted from generation to generation by process of learning, and not genetically is referred to as ____.
A. culture transmission
B. performance
C. competence
D. acquisition
C5. ____ is the language of Angles, Saxons and Jutes who invaded Britain after AD 450.
A. Old Norse
B. Cletic
C. Old English
D. Middle English
C6. A group of two or more consonants together in a syllable is called a (n) ____.
A. arresting cluster
B. releasing cluster
C. consonant cluster
D. syllable
C7. The semantic features of the word “woman” can be expressed as ____.
A. +ANIMATE, -- HUMAN, +ADULT, +MALE
B. + ANIMATE, + HUMAN, -- ADULT, + MALE
C. + ANIMATE, + HUMAN, + ADULT, -- MALE
D. + ANIMATE, -- HUMAN, -- ADULT, -- MALE
A8. ____ is to refer to an auxiliary language used to enable routine communication to take place between groups of people who speak different native languages.
A. Lingua franca
B. Dialect
C. Pidgin
D. Ethnic dialect
A9. ____ is the study of the relationship between brain and language, including research into how the structure of the brain influences language learning.
A. Neurolinguistics
B. Psyhcholingistics
C. Applied Linguistics
D. Sociolinguistics
B10. Modern synchronic linguistics traditionally dates from the ____ of Swiss scholar Ferdinand de Saussure.
A. Syntactic structure
B. Cours de Linguitique General
C. De Lingua Latina
D. Language and Mind
A1. According to the strong version of the ____ hypothesis, language determines speakers’ perceptions and
patterns their way of life.
A. Sapir Whorf
B. input
C. Grim
D.Innateness
D2. Which of the following is true ____
A. In the history of any language the writing system always came into being before the spoken form.
B. A compound is the combination of only two words.
C. The division of English into old English, Middle English, and Modern English is nonconventional and not
arbitrary.
D. If a child is deprived of linguistic environment, he or she is unlikely to learn a language successfully later on.
D3. Which of the following statements is not true ____
A. Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.
B. Language is
human specific
C. Language is relatively stable and systematic while parole is subject to personal and situational constraints
first language was invented by Adam, the first man.
B 4. A group of people who do in fact have the opportunity to interact with each other and who share not just a
single language with its related varieties but also attitudes to- ward linguistic norms are defined as ____.
A. speech variety
B. speech community
C. register
D. sociolect
C5. “Your money or your life” is an example of ___.
A. representative
B. expressive
C. directives
missives
D6. Which of the following distinctive features can be used to separate [p] and [b] __
A. stop
B. fricatives
C. bilabial
D.voiced
D7. ____ studies the total stock of morphemes of a language particularly those items which have clear semantic references.
A. Lexicography
B. Phonology
C. Lexicology
D. Morphology
C8. ____ theorized that acquisition of language is an innate process determined by biological factors which limit
the important period for acquisition of a language from roughly two years of age to puberty.
A. Input hypothesis
B. Interaction hypothesis
C. Critical period hypothesis
D.Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
C9. An example of ___ would be the change in meaning undergone by the OE word, docga, modern day dog. In
OE docga referred to a particular breed of dog, while in modern usage it refers to the class of dogs as a whole.
A. semantic degradations
B. semantic reductions
C. semantic extensions
D. semantic elevation
C10. According to Chomsky, the child is born with a built – in set of rules, which have the specific function of
enabling her to construct the grammar of her mother tongue. This view is to be seen as ____.
A. Input hypothesis
B. X-theory
C. Language acquisition device
D.Universal grammar
D1. “Old” and “Young” are a pair of ____ opposites.
A. complementary
B. relational
C. converse
D. gradable
B2. Systemic-Functional Grammar, one of the most influential linguistic theories in the 20th century, is put forward by ____.
A. Chomsky
B. Halliday
C. Firth
D.Malinowski
D3. Vowels that are produced between the positions for a front and back vowel are called ____ vowel.
A. back
B. front
C. unrounded
D.central
D4. From Halliday’s viewpoint, language is a form of realization of ____ rather than a form of realization
of______.
A. knowing, doing
B. thinking, knowing
C. doing, thinking
D.doing, knowing
C5. ___ believes that language learning is simply a matter of imitation and habit formation.
A. The innatist
B. The interactionist
C. The behaviorist
D.The mentalist
the physical properties of speech sound, as transmitted between mouth and ear.
A. Articulatory phonetics
B. Physiological phonetics
C Acoustic phonetics D. Auditory phonetics
B7. Creativity refers to ____.
A. the unconscious knowledge that language users have in their minds
B. the capacity of language users to produce and understand an indefinitely large number of sentences
C. a property claimed to be characteristic of all languages
D. animals’ capacity to learn more than one human language
A8. Fossilization is a process _ _.
A. in which incorrect linguistic features beca me a permanent part of a learner’s competence
B. in which incorrect as well as correct linguistic features beca me a permanent part of a learner’s competence,
but the correct items gradually delete the incorrect items
C. which can happen as a result of teachers’ disapproval of an incorre ct item
and C are correct
B9. “Competence” refers to ____.
A. knowledge of meaning of words and sentences
B. a speaker’s unconscious knowledge about his/her language
C. the actual use of a speaker’s unconscious knowledge about his/her language
D. the laws that pertain to all languages throughout the world
A10. ___ refers to unintentionally deviation from the adult grammar of a native speaker.
A. An error
B. A mistake
C. A slip of the tongue
D. Fossilization
C1. ____ is a multiword construction that is a semantic unit whose meaning cannot be deduced from the meanings of its constituents.
A. semantic component
B. collocation
C. idiom
D. reference
B2. The distinction between langue and parole is similar to that between ____.
A. prescriptive and descriptive
B. competence and performance
C. speech and writing
D. synchronic and diachronic
A3. Nouns, verbs, and adjectives can be classified as ____.
A. open class words
B. grammatical words
C. closed class words
D. function words
B4. What is the meaning relationship between the two words “furniture/bed” ____
A. polysemy
B. hyponymy
C. homonymy
D. antonymy
B5. Which description of componential analysis for the word “woman” is right ____
A. +human,-adult, -male
B. +human, + adult, -male
C. +human, + adult, +male
D. +human, -adult, +male
B6. The type of language which is selected as appropriate to the type of situation is a ____.
A. regional dialect
B. register
C. field
D. repertoire
D7. In structural grammar, distributional analysis is used to define ____, which are taken as the basic building blocks.
A. morphemes
B. words
C. syllable
D. phonemes
D8. “Speech Act Theory” was proposed by ____ in 1962.
A. Saussure
B. Chomsky
C. Jane Austin
D. John Austin
D9. The major new development in linguistics in 20th century was ____ grammar.
A. speculative
B. traditional
C. structural
D. transformational-generative
A10. ____ refers to the tendency of many learners to stop developing their inter-language grammar in the direction of the target language.
A. Fossilization
B. Error analysis
C. Overgeneralization
D. Interference
D1. The most recognizable difference between American English and British English are in ____ and vocabulary.
A. structure
B. grammar
C. usage
D. pronunciation
C2. The study of how we do things with utterance is the study of ____, the nature of which is determined by context.
A. context
B. pragmatics
C. speech act
D. semantics
A3. A(n) ___ is a mild, indirect or less offensive word or expression that replaces a taboo word or serves to avoid more direct wording that might be harsh, unpleasantly direct, or offen sive, . “pass away” for “die”.
A. euphemisms
B. delete
C. coinage
D. taboo
B4. In many societies of the world, we find a large number of people who speak more than one language. As a characteristic of societies, ____ inevitably results from the coming into contact of people with different cultures and different languages.
A. transfer
B. bilingualism
C. diglossia
D. inter-language
D5. Pragmatics differs from traditional semantics in that it studies meaning not in isolation, but in ____.
A. relationship
B. dependence
C. sentence
D. context
is a design feature of human language that enables speakers to talk about a wide range of things, free from barriers caused by separation in time and space.
A. cultural transmission
B. duality
C. displacement
D. productivity
B7. Traditional grammarians begin with ____ definition of the sentence and components.
A. structural
B. notional
C. descriptive
D. prescriptive
A8. ____ is defined as any regionally or socially definable human group identified by shared linguistic system. A. Speech community B. A race C. A society D. A country
A9. ___ invasions established three major groups in England: Saxons, Angles and Jutes.
A. Germanic
B. Norman
C. French
D. Roman
D10. Japanese is the only major language that uses ___ writing system.
A. a word-writing
B. a logographic
C. an alphabetic
D. a syllabic
C1. ____ is one whose distribution is functionally equivalent to that of one or more of its constituents, . a word or group of words, which serves as a definable “center” or “head”.
A. Exocentric construction
B. Coordination
C. Endocentric construction
D. Collocation
A2. Of the following linguists, ____ should not be grouped into American school.
A. Firth
B. Sapir
C. Bloomfield
D. Boas
D3. When people learn a foreign language for external goals such as passing exams, financial rewards or furthering a career, we say they learn a foreign language with a (n) ___.
A. intrinsic motivation
B. resultative motivation
C. integrative motivation
D. instrumental motivation
B4. What is the sense relation in the sentence “My unmarried sister is married to a bachelor.” ____
A. Presuppose
B. Contradiction
C. Entailment
D. Inconsistent
B5. ---TRUTH.
---Do not say what you believe to be false.
---Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence.
Those can be defined as the features of ____ of Gricean maxims.
A. maxim of quantity
B. maxim of quality
C. maxim of relation
D. maxim of manner
C6. ____ caused by the differing rates of vibration of the vocal cords refers to the use of pitch in language to distinguish words.
A. Intonation
B. Stress
C. Tone
D.Aspiration
C7. ____ is a socially prestigious dialect that is supported by institutions.
A. Ethnic dialect
B. Ideolect
C. Standard dialect
D. Creole
D8. Which of the following country are those loanwords “garage, champion, beauty, parliament” borrowed from ____.
A. Latin
B. Dutch
C. German
D.French
B9. In the sentence “The angry man went furiously through the rooms.” The first division into immediate constitute should be between ____.
A. angry and man
B. man and went
C. furiously and through
D. The and angry
C10. ____ refers to the effect of the utterance.
A. Illocutionary act
B. Locutionary act
C. Perlocutionary act
D. Speech act
A1. The consonant sound /p/ is described as ___.
A. voiceless bilabial stop
B. voiceless alveolar stop
C. voiced bilabial stop
D. voiced alveolar stop
C2. A new word created by cutting the final part or cutting the initial part is referred to as ____.
A. acronym
B. borrowing
C. clipping
D.blending
C3. According to the author our brain is divided into two hemispheres. Language functions are mainly located in ____.
A. right hemispheres
B. front hemispheres
C. left hemispheres
D.back hemispheres
C4. “A language pattern which occurs in all known language” is called ____.
A. a phonemic representation
B. a phonetic representation
C. a language universal
D. language change
C5. In the sentence-------“The child found the puppy”, ____ is not a constituent.
A. The child
B. found the puppy
C. found the
D. the puppy
A6. A ____ is a word or phrase which people use in place of terms which they consider to be more disagreeable or offensive to themselves and /or to their audience.
A. Euphemism
B. metaphor
C. denotation
D.jargon
C7. ____ is the learner’s process of adapting to the culture and value system of the target language community.
A. Acquisition
B. Assimilation
C. Acculturation
D. Articulation
C8. What is the relationship between the two words “flower / rose” ____
A. Homonymy
B. Antonymy
C. hyponymy
D. Polysemy
D9. The function of the sentence “How are you” ____
A. directive
B. informative
C. performative
D. phatic
C10. Homonyms ____.
A. are words that share the same phonetic features and the same semantic features
B. are
words that share the same semantic features but have different sets of phonetic features
C. are words that share the same phonetic features but have different sets of semantic features
D. are two words that all but one of semantic features in common
B1. The distinction between language and parole is proposed by ____.
A. Halliday
B. Saussure
C. Chomsky
D. Firth
C2. In the following dialogue, the maxim of ____ is not observed.
A. What time is it
B. It’s terribly cold in here.
A. quality
B. quantity
C. relevance
D. manner
B3. ____ are linguistic units larger than sentences.
A. Moves
B. Discourses
C. Topics
D. Tendencies
A4. Which of the following two-term sets shows the feature of complementarity __
A. single/married
B. big/small
C. hot / cold
D. old /young
A5. Usually ____ refers to the use of linguistic research in language teaching, but linguistics is used in other areas, as well.
A. applied linguistics
B. theoretical linguistics
C. contextual linguistics
D. general linguistics
D6. Two words that are differentiated by one phoneme, such as “cat” and “rat”, are known as a ____.
A. distinctive feature
B. argument
C. code
D. minimal pair
D7. ____ is often regarded as the founder of the study of sociolinguistics.
A. Saussure
B. Halliday
C. Chomsky
D. Labov
C8. ____ is the academic discipline concerned with the study of the processes by which people learn languages in addition to their native tongue.
A. IPA
B. IC Analysis
C. SLA
D. TG
C9. The ____ is the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents.
A. bound morpheme
B. affix
C. root
D. prefix
A10. In terms of S earle’s classification system of illocutionary acts, the sentence “Ten bucks say that The Yankee will win the game.” used to bet belongs to ____.
A. representative
B. commissive
C. directive
D. declaration
B1. Three factors involved in describing vowels are ____.
A. place of articulation / part of the tongue raised / voicing
B. tongue height / part of the tongue raised / lip rounding
C. articulators / extreme vowel positions / tongue position
D. teeth position / alveolar ridge position / voicing
C2. In ____ the structure of words is studied.
A. phonetics
B. phonology
C. morphology
D. syntax
D3. Which one is not a source of error ____
A the native language B. the target language
C. learner’s style of thinking
D. none
C4. “Love” and “hate” are ____.
A. binary antonyms
B. complementary pairs
C. gradable antonyms
D. relational opposites
A5. ___ refers to sentences not only describe or report information, but also help speakers accomplish things. A. Speech act B. Discourse C. Context D. Communication
B6. The feature that distinguishes “hotdog” and “hot dog” is ____.
A. tone
B. stress
C. intonation
D. aspiration
A7. ____ deals with how language is acquired, understood and produced.
A. Psycholinguistics
B. Sociolinguistics
C. Neurolinguistcs
D. Anthropological linguistics
D8. The study of language at some point of time is generally termed as ____ linguistics.
A. applied
B. diachronic
C. comparative
D. synchronic
A9. Of the following linguists, ____ should be grouped into London school.
A. Firth
B. Bloomfield
C. Boas
D. Trubetzkoy
C10. ____ 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. Pidgin
D. Standard language
D1. The basic essentials of the first language are acquired in the short period from about age two to puberty, which is called the ____ period for the first language acquisition.
A. initial
B. one-word stage
C. puberty
D. critical
A2. The study of the linguistic meaning of words, phrases, and sentences is called ____.
A. semantics
B. pragmatics
C. syntax
D. language change
D3. In making conversation, the general principle that all participants are expected to observe is called the ____ principle proposed by J. Grice.
A. comprehensive
B. generative
C. discourse
D. cooperative
C4. ___ is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.
A. reference
B. lexical meaning
C. sense
D. word
B5. “Autumn” and “fall” are used respectively in Britain and America, but refer to the same thing. The words are ___ synonyms.
A. collocational
B. dialectal
C. complete
D. stylistic
D6. ____ is the abstract syntactic representation of a sentence, namely, the underlying level of structural organization which specifies all the factors governing the way the sentence should be interpreted.
A. surface structure
B. syntactic ambiguity
C. syntactic component
D. deep structure
C7. London speech that was illustrated by Shakespeare’s writing was generally termed ____.
A. Old English
B. Middle English
C. Early Modern English
D. Late Modern
A8. If we begin interpretation of a sentence spontaneously and automatically on the basis of whatever information is available to us, that is called ____.
A. top-down processing
B. bottom-up processing
C. inductive analysis
D. comparative analysis
B9. ____ is a personal dialect of an individual speaker that combines elements regarding regional, social, gender, and age variations.
A. Dialect
B. Idiolect
C. Ethnic dialect
D. Linguistic repertoire
A10. Of the following words, ____ is an initialism.
A. UN
B. NATO
C. BASIC
D. UNESCO。