语言学考试试卷B

北京林业大学2006--2007学年第二学期考试试卷（A卷）

试卷名称: 普通语言学课程所在院系:外语学院考试班级: 英04级

I. For each question, there are four choices of answers. In some cases, only one choice is correct while in others there may be two or three correct ones. Choose ALL the correct ones. (25 points)

1. Which of the following theories takes as the origin of language the instinctive sounds of pain, anger and joy?

A. the bow-wow theory

B. the pooh-pooh theory

C. the “yo-he-ho” theory

D. the Winnie-the-Pooh theory

2. Which of the following are among Halliday’s theory of metafunctions of language?

A. ideational

B. relational

C. interpersonal

D. textual

3. The distinction between langue and parole was put forward by _____.

A. Bloomfield

B. de Saussure

C. Chomsky

D. Halliday

4. Which of the following is a vowel?

A. [p]

B. [f]

C. [æ]

D. [m]

5. Which of the following is the correct description of [f]?

A. voiceless labiodental fricative

B. voiced labiodental fricative

C. voiceless labiodental stop

D. voiced labiodental stop

6. Which of the following vowels is CV8?

A. [a]

B. [e]

C. [u]

D. [i]

7. Which of the following words are likely to have stress in sentences?

A. on

B. wonderful

C. fire

D. right

8. _____ advocated treating the word as “the minimum free form”.

A. Leonard Bloomfield

B. Noam Chomsky

C. John Lyons

D. M A K Halliday

9. Which of the following word classes are open classes?

A. conjunction

B. determiner

C. adverb

D. verb

10. Which of the following are suffixes?

A. un

B. tion

C. ness

D. er

11. Number and gender are mostly categories of the _____.

A. interjection

B. noun

C. preposition

D. pronoun

12. “Concord” has the same meaning as _____.

A. perfective

B. progressive

C. agreement

D. government

13. Which of the following meanings are the terms of Geoffrey Leech?

A. conceptual meaning

B. social meaning

C. lexical meaning

D. thematic meaning

14. Synonymy is the technical term for the _____ relation.

A. oppositeness

B. complementary

C. gradable

D. sameness

15. Which of the following are converse antonyms?

A. clever : stupid

B. husband : wife

C. give : receive

D. teacher : employee

16. Which of the following are correct readings of “CAUSE (x, (BECOME (y, (~ALIVE (y)))))”?

A. x causes y to become not alive.

B. x causes y to become alive.

C. x causes y to become not dead.

D. x causes y to become dead.

17. Which of the following meanings are the foci of pragmatics?

A. Lexical meaning

B. Propositional meaning

C. Utterance meaning

D. Contextual meaning

18. Which of the following lines rhyme?

A. Be your wounds like eyes / To weep for the dead, the dead.

B. It was winter such as when birds die / In the deep forests; and the fishes lie

C. Stiffened in the translucent ice, which makes / Even the mud and slime of the warm lakes

D. Gather about great fires, and yet feel cold: / Alas, then, for the homeless beggar old!

19. Which of the following lines are in the form of iambic pentametres?

A. Her eye are wild, her head is are, / The sun has burnt her coal-black hair,

B. When lovely woman stoops to folly, / And finds too late that men betray,

C. For saints have hands that pilgrim’s hands do touch, / And palm to palm is holy palmer’s kiss.

D. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

20. Which of these writers wrote in the form of ‘stream of consciousness’?

A. William Faulkner

B. James Joyce

C. Charles Dickens

D. Virginia Woolf

21. The ‘variationist perspective’ is a way to investigate language by studying how language is used

in _____.

A. social interaction

B. religious beliefs

C. ethnic identity

D. different situations

22. Which of the following are more likely to be used by women?

A. ‘fancy’ color terms

B. strong curse words

C. tag questions

D. less direct expressions

23. Which of the following are related to the recent developments of CALL?

A. Multimedia

B. Hypermedia

C. The internet

D. The language lab