资料英语语言学期末考试试卷考卷及答案副本

资料英语语言学期末考试试卷考卷及答案副本 Document number【AA80KGB-AA98YT-AAT8CB-2A6UT-A18GG】

英语语言学期末考试试卷

第一部分选择题

I.Directions: 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