英语语言学期末考试试卷考卷及答案副本

英语语言学期末考试试卷

第一部分选择题

I.D irections: 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%X10=20%)

1. Saussure’s distinction and Chomsky’s are very similar, but they differ in that

____________.

A. Saussure took a sociological view of language while Chomsky took a psychological point

of view

B. Saussure took a psychological view of language while Chomsky took a sociological point

of view

C. Saussure took a pragmatic view of language while Chomsky took a semantic point of

view

D. Saussure took a structural view of language while Chomsky took a pragmatic point of

view

2. Language is a system of ____________ vocal symbols used for human communication.

A. unnatural

B. artificial

C. superficial

D. arbitrary

3. We are born with the ability to acquire language, _______________.

A. and the details of any language system are genetically transmitted

B. therefore, we needn’t learn the details of our mother tongue

C. but the details of language have to be learnt.

D. and the details are acquired by instinct

4. A(n)________ is a phonological unit of distinctive value. It is a collection of

distinctive phonetic features.

A. phone

B. allophone

C. phoneme

D. sound

5. The morpheme –ed in the word “worked” is a(n) __________ morpheme.

A. derivational

B. inflectional

C. free

D. word-forming

6. WH-movement is __________ in English which changes a sentence from affirmative to

interrogative.

A. obligatory

B. optional

C. selectional

D. arbitrary

7. Naming theory, one of the oldest notions concerning meaning, was proposed by _________.

A. Grice

B. Plato

C. Saussure

D. Ogden and Richards

8. “John married a blond heiress.”__________ “John married a blond.”

A. is synonymous with

B. is inconsistent with

C. entails

D. presupposes

9. In semantic analysis of a sentence, the basic unit is called _______, which is the

abstraction of the meaning of a sentence.

A. utterance

B. reference

C. predication

D. morpheme

10. In Austin’s speech act theory, ___________ is the act of expressing the speaker’s

intention; it is the act performed in saying something.

A. a perlocutionary act

B. a locutionary act

C. a constative act

D. an illocutionary act

第二部分非选择题

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. P___________ relates the study of language to psychology. It aims to answer such questions

as how the human mind works when people use language.

12. A d_________ study of language is a historical study; it studies the historical development of language over a period of time.

13. Language is a system, which consists of two sets of structures, or two levels. At the

lower level, there is a structure of meaningless sounds, which can be combined into a large number of meaningful units at the higher level. This design feature is called d___________.

14. The articulatory apparatus of a human being is contained in three important areas: the

pharyngeal cavity, the o_________ cavity and the nasal cavity.

15. The localization of cognitive and perceptual functions in a particular hemisphere of

the brain is called l_____________.

16. S_____________ features such as stress, tone and intonation can influence the

interpretation of meaning.

17. Phrase structure rules can generate an infinite number of sentences, and sentences with

infinite length, due to their r_________ properties.

18. H__________ refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings are identical

in sound or spelling, or in both.

19. Some important missions of historical linguists are to identify and classify families

of related languages in a genealogical family tree, and to reconstruct the p____________, the original form of a language family that has ceased to exist.

20. In Sociolinguistics, speakers are treated as members of social groups. The social group

isolated for any given study is called the speech c___________.

III. Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement. (2%×10=20%) ( ) 21. Linguists believe that whatever occurs in the language people use should be described and analyzed in their investigation.

( ) 22. Language is arbitrary in the sense that there is no intrinsic connection between words and what these words actually refer to.

( ) 23. The conclusions we reach about the phonology of one language can be generalized into the study of another language.

( ) 24. The meaning-distinctive function of the tone is especially important in English