成教学院语言学期末考试试卷B

语言学期末考试试卷（B）卷

Part I. Multiple choice 30% (共15小题，每题2分，共30分)

1. The distinction between vowels and consonants lies in ________

A. the place of articulation

B. the obstruction of airstream

C. the position of the tongue

D. the shape of the lips

2. In English, words fall into two types, i.e. open classes and closed classes. Which of the following does not belong to the open class? ________

A. nouns

B. verbs

C. pronouns

D. adjectives

3. In English –ise and–tion are called __________.

A. prefixes

B. suffixes

C. infixes

D. stems

4. _______ put forward TG grammar?

A. Chomsky

B. Saussure

C. Halliday

D. Austin

5. This is what John does for Jane: he sends roses to her every day. The underlines words form ________.

A. exophoric reference

B. anaphoric reference

C. cataphoric reference

D. deictic reference

6. "Morning star “and “evening star "may have the same ______.

A. sense

B. reference

C. meaning

D. denotation

7. “Sam found the dog”. In this sentence, the underlined word plays the semantic role of _______.

A. agent

B. theme

C. source

D. goal

8. "Your money or your life?" is an example of _________

A. declarations

B. expressives

C. commissives

D. directives

9. The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called ________

A. pragmatics

B. semantics

C. phonology

D. sociolinguistics

10. The statement “What an awful meal you cooked.” violates the maxim of _______.

A. Tact

B. Generosity

C. Approbation

D. Modesty

11. "Jane had another date with John" is a case of _______

A. inconsistency

B. presupposition

C. entailment

D. tautology

12. [+HUMAN] is a ________ of “man”.

A. semantic relation

B. semantic feature

C. sense

D. reference

13. Narration, description, exposition and argumentation are the major forms of _____.

A. cohesion

B. coherence

C. text

D. context

14. Wh ich device has been used to form the word “smog”? _______

A. affixation

B. acronym

C. blending

D. clipping

15. Which of the following consonants is not an alveolar? _________

A. /t/

B. /d/

C. /f/

D. /l/

PartⅡ. True or false 10% (共10小题，每题1分，共10分)

1. Every normal speaker needs to mind his own and other’s faces.

2. All human infants can speak some language.

3. The marking of word stress is arbitrary for the most part in English.

4. In pragmatics, context refers to the sentences preceding and following the current word or sentences.

5. One may tell a story when arguing for a thesis.

6. Some words are always superordinates while some others are always hyponyms.

7. All ambiguous sentences result from failure to use proper organization.

8. All English words have their referents.

9. Not all uses of language are meant to convey new information.

10. Every English sentence has a subject.

PartⅢTerm definition 30% (共5小题，每题6分，共30分)

1. Displacement

2. Phonology

3. Arbitrariness

4. Morphology

5. Linguistics

Part IV. Short answer questions 30% (共3小题，每题10分，共30分)

1. Please write the three categorizations of antonyms and give some examples for each category.

2. What are the three most important devices of word-formation in English? Please give some corresponding examples.

3. Deictic expressions include five categories. Please write them down and at the same time give the examples.