英语语言学试题

英语语言学试题 TTA standardization office【TTA 5AB- TTAK 08- TTA 2C】

英语语言学试题B卷及答案（

III. Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the corresponding letter A， B， C or D in the brackets. （1%×20=20%）

1) The study of language at one point of time is a _______ study.

A. synchronic

B. historic

C. diachronic

D. descriptive

2）Synonyms are classified into several kinds. The kind to which “fall” and “autumn” belong

is called _____ synonyms.

A. stylistic

B. dialectal

C. emotive

D. collocational

3) The sen tence “John likes ice-cream” contains ________ arguments.

A. one

B. two

C. none

D. three

4) Semantics can be defined as the study of ________.

A. naming

B. meaning

C. communication

D. context

5) Once the notion of ________ was taken into consideration， semantics spilled into

pragmatics.

A. meaning

B. context

C. form

D. content

6) Of the three speech acts， linguists are most interested in the _______.

A. locutionary act

B. perlocutionary act

C. illocutionary act

D. none of the above

7) Most of the violations of the maxims of the Cooperative Principle give rise to _____.

A. utterance meaning

B. speech act theory

C. conversational implicatures

D. none of the above

8) The significance of Grice’s CP lies in that it explains how it is possible for the speaker to convey ______ is literally said.

A. more than

B. less than

C. the same as

D. none of the above

9) The goal of ______ is to explore the nature of language variation and language use among a variety of speech communities and different social situations.

A. psycholinguistics

B. sociolinguistics

C. historical linguistics

D. general linguistics

10) Black English has a number of distinctive features in its phonological， morphological

and syntactic systems which are _______.

A. rule-governed

B. systematic

C. arbitrary

D. both A and B

11）As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use，and not to lay down rules for "correct" linguistic behavior， it is said to be ___.

A. prescriptive

B. sociolinguistic

C. descriptive

D. psycholinguistic

12) Language is a system of arbitrary _________ symbols used for human communication.

A. cultural

B. conventional

C. decoded

D. vocal

13) A word with several meanings is called _________.

A. an abnormal word

B. a polysemous word

C. a synonymous word

D. none of the above

14) 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

15) The syntactic rules of any language are ________ in number.

A. large

B. small

C. finite

D. infinite

16) “I bought some roses” __________ “I bought some flowers”.

A. entails

B. presupposes

C. is inconsistent with

D. is synonymous with

17）The phrase “boys and girls” belongs to the ____________ construction.

A. predicate

B. endocentric

C. subordinate

D. exocentric

18) Can I borrow your bike" ___ "You have a bike."

A. is synonymous with

B. is inconsistent with

C. entails

D. presupposes19） Of all the speech organs， the ___ is/are the most flexible.

A. mouth

B. lips

C. tongue

D. vocal cords 20）Chomsky uses the term _______ to refer to the actual realization of a language user’s

knowledge of the rules of his language in linguistic communication.

A. langue

B. competence