语言学客观自测练习及答案 7

语言学客观自测练习及答案 7

I. Directions： Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which on e of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A， B， C or D in the brackets. （2%X10=20%）

1. The study of language as a whole is often called ____________ linguistics.

A. general

B. applied B. generative D. particular

2. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is

a good illustration of the ___________ nature of language.

A. productive

B. dual

C. arbitrary

D. displacing

3. English consonants can be classified in terms of _____________.

A. manner of articulation

B. place of articulation

C. force of articulation

D. Both A and B

4. Which of the following vowel is not a front vowel in English？

A. [i：]

B. [e ]

C. [ɑ：]

D. [i]

5. Inflectional morphology studies _____________.

A. word-formation

B. sentence

C. inflections

D. none of the above

6. Which of the following morphemes can function as both an inflectional affix a nd a derivational affix？

A. dis-

B. uni-

C. –er

D.-ful

7. The two clauses in a ___________ sentence are structurally equal parts of the sentence.

A. simple

B. complete

C. complex

D. coordinate

8. Which of the following does not belong to the major lexical categories？

A. Verb

B. Noun

C. Determiner

D. Adjective

9. Bloomfield drew on _______________ psychology when trying to define the meani ng of linguistic forms.

A. naming

B. conceptualist

C. contextual

D. behaviorist

10. “rebuke”，“accuse”， and “charge” are ____________ synonyms.

A. dialectal

B. stylistic

C. collocational

D. semantica lly different

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 fi ll in One word only， and you are not allowed to change the letter given. （1%X10=1 0%）

11. P___________ is the study of language with reference to psychology.

12. D___________ features refer to the defining properties of human language tha t distinguish it from any animal system of communication.

13. A____________ refers to a strong puff of air stream in the production of spe ech sounds.

14. Sentence s_________ refers to the relative force which is given to the words in a sentence.

15. In terms of morphological analysis， d_____________ can be viewed as the add ition of affixes to stems to form new words.