完整版本英语专八语言学测试卷试题

完好版本英语专八语言学测试卷试题
英语专八人文语言学测试题
1. Which of the following features is NOT one of the design features of language?
A language is a system
B language is symbolic
C Animal also have language
D language is arbitrary
2.The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that
human loanguage is __________.
A arbitrary
B non-arbitrary
C logical
D non-productive
3. Which of the foloowing terms best describes the -ate ” in the word““ affectionate ”?
A derivational morpheme
B infectional morpheme
C free morpheme
D prefix
4. Which of the foloowing terms best describes the pair of words kill and dill?
A minimal pair
B phonemic contrast
C closed class words
D bound morphemes
5. What is the basic lexical relation between piece and peace?
A synonymy
B antonymy
C homonymy
D polysemy
6. /p/ is different from /b/ in ______.
A the manner of articulation
B the shape of the lips
C the vibration of the vocal cords
D the place of articulation
7. Of all the speech organs, the ____ is / are the most flexible.
A mouth
B lips
C tongue
D vocal cords
8. The phonological features of the consonant /t/ are ______.
A voiced stop
B voiceless stop
C voiced fricative
D voiceless fricative
9.The branch of linguistics that studies show context influences the way speakers interpret
sentences is called ________.
A semantics
B pragmatics
C sociaolinguistics
D psycholinguistics
10. The utterance“ We’ ve already eaten ten tons.” Obviously violates the maxim of ______.
A quality
B quantity
C relation
D manner
11.All the back vowels in English are pronounced with rounded-lips, i.e. rounded, except _____.
A //
12. The semantic relationship between the two sentences“ Mary’ s son is an engineer.
”An has a son.” is.
A entailment
B presupposition
C synonymy
D inconsistency
13. Which of the following sentences is a commissive?
A The eqarth is round.
B I now prinounce you husband and wife.
C I ’ m really sorry!
D I ’ ll be here tomorrow
14.Semantic feature analysis attempts to account for the _____ of a word according to the
presence or abence of a specific semantic feature in the word.
A conceptual meaning
B social meaning
C connotative meaning
D affective meaning
15. ____ act is the extra meaning of the utterance produced on the basis of its literal meaning.
A Speech
B Locutionary
C Illocutionary
D Perlocutionary
16. _____is a group of people using a given language or dialect. They use the same kind of
language or dialect which is highly strtified in terms of social division.
A Speech community
B Individual dialect
C Regional dialect
D Social dialect
17.The situation where two very different varieties of the same language are used side by side
for two different sets of functions is termed as _______.
完好版本英语专八语言学测试卷试题
A diglossia
B bilingualism
C multilingualism
D register
18.A ____is a variety of a language that is not a native language of anynone, but is learned on co9ntact situation such as trading.
A pidgin
B creole
C dialect
D lingua franca
19. The Word “ lab” is formed through _________.
A back formation
B blending
C clipping
D derivation
20. Which of the following items is not one of the grammatical categories of English pronouns?
A gender
B number
C case
D voice
21. The pair of words “lend ”and “borrow ”are _______.
A gradable opposites
B converse opposites
C co-hypinyms
D synonyms
22. “Big ”and “Small ”are a pair of _________opposites.
A complementary
B gradable
C complete
D converse
23. _______is the study of how speakers of a language use sentences to effect successful communication.
A Semantics
B pragmatics
C sociolinguistics
D psycholinguistics
24.A variety of a language used recognizably in a specific region or by a specific social class is called __________.
25.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 pragmatically
26. [ l ] and [ r ] function in a minimal pair of ___________.
A lid and rid
B lad and red
C peel and peer
D both A ， B， C
27.Man ’s linguistic ability enables him to produce and understand an infinitely large number of sentences in his native language, including the sentences which were never heard before. This design feature of language is ____________.
A specialization
B cultural transmission
C Productivity
D arbitrariness
28.The study of language developed over a period of time is generally termed as ______ linguistics, which focuses on the changes and developments of language.
29.Human language operates on two levels of structure. At one level are elements which have no meaning in themselves but which combine to form units at another level which do have meaning. This design feature of language is called ______.
A D。