全国2006年10月高等教育自学考试现代语言学试题

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全国2006年10月高等教育自学考试

现代语言学试题

课程代码:00830

Ⅰ.Directions: 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%×10=20%)

1.Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing, which is a feature of()

A.all consonants B.vowels only

C.all consonants and some vowels D.all vowels and some consonants

2.The negative prefix“ in-”in English, when added to the adjective “possible”, is actually pronounced/im/,and spelt as “im”. This is the result of the

______________rule at work.()

A.deletion B.assimilation

C.phonetic D.sequential

3.The word “ecology” is a two-morpheme cluster that contains_______________.

()

A.two roots B.a root and a suffix

C.a root and a free morpheme D.a prefix and a root

4.When we move the adverbial phrase “every day” in the sentence “Every day, we study English” to the end of the sentence, we are now ______________ the phrase to the right.()

A.rewriting B.preposing

C.postposing D.maintaining

5.Antonyms are divided into several kinds .Which of the following is NOT a kind of

antonyms?()A.complementary B.relational

C.superordinate D.gradable

6.In terms of predication analysis , the utterance“ Is it going to snow this afternoon?” is a______________()

A.one-place predication B.two-place predication

C.three-place predication D.no-place predication

7.In Old English, word order was freer because the case endings were rich. So in Old English, word orders included SVO, VSO, SOV and OSV. However, Modern

English has a much weaker case system, so its sentences have to follow a basic

word order of________________.

()

A.SOV B.SVO

C.VSO D.OSV

8.Black English is a kind of _______________dialect.()

A.regional B.standard

C.ethnic D.situational

9.The critical period for language acquisition refers to the short period of _____________years old in one’s life, during which the human brain is most

ready to acquire a particular language.

()A.1-2 B.2-12

C.1-12 D.13-18

10.In a sense, humans can be said to be biologically programmed to acquire at least one language. What is meant by this ______________view of language

acquisition is that humans are equipped with the neural prerequisites for

language and language use.()

A.behaviorist B.nativist

C.mentalist D.empiricist

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.A scientific study of language is based on the s________________ investigation of

language data.

12.The limited range of sounds which are meaningful in human linguistic

communication and are of interest to linguistic studies are called the

p________________ medium of language.

13.phrase structure rules can generate an infinite number of sentences with infinite

length, due to their r________________ properties.

14.A f_________________ clause is a clause that takes a subject and a main verb, and

at the same time stands structurally alone.

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