TEM8 Linguistics Questions 专八真题语言学

英语专业八级考试TEM8之语言学真题

1. The modern English began in the century. (00)

A. 14th

B. 15th

C. 16th

D. 17th

2. Which of the word contains two morphemes?

A. Physic.

B. International.

C. Disapproved.

D. Fadism.

3. Which of the following words is not formed through derivation? (01)

A. Foolish.

B. Clockwise.

C. Babysit.

D. Earthward.

4. The sameness or close similarity of meaning refers to .

A. polysemy

B. homonymy

C. antonymy

D. synonymy

5. is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.

A. Lingusitics

B. Morphorlogy

C. Syntax

D. Language

6. Predication analysis is a way to analyze meaning. (02)

A. phoneme

B. word

C. phrase

D. sentence

7. is not a suprasegmental feature.

A. Aspiration

B. Intonation

C. Stress

D. Tone

8. “The orphan has no father” is a case of .

A. entailment

B. presupposition

C. contradiction

D. tautology

9. can be simply defined as the study of meaning. (03)

A. Syntax

B. Semantics

C. Pragmatics

D. Linguistics

10. Which of the following is NOT one of the major branches of linguistics?

A. Phonetics.

B. Syntax.

C. Synchronic.

D. Semantics.

11. Which of the following words contain one bound morphemes?

A. Disappearance.

B. Untouchable.

C. Desirability.

D. Physician.

12. In semantics, refers to the inherent meaning of the linguistic form. (04)

A. sense

B. synonym

C. homonym

D. reference

13. The duality of the language is .

A. letters and sounds

B. sounds and symbols

C. symbols and meaning

D. sounds and meaning

14. Of all the speech organs, the is/are the most flexible.

A. lips

B. mouth

C. tongue

D. vocal cords

15. Syntax is the study of . (05)

A. language functions

B. sentence structures

C. textual organization

D. word formation

16. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?

A. Arbitrariness.

B. Productivity.

C. Cultural transmission.

D. Finiteness.

17. The Speech Act Theory was first put forward by .

A. John Searle

B. John Austin

C. Noam Chomsky

D. Halliday

18. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion of . (06)

A. reference

B. meaning

C. antonymy

D. context

19. The words “ kid, child, offspring” are examples of .

A. dialectal synonyms

B. stylistics synonyms

C. emotive synonyms

D. collocational synonyms

20. The distinction between parole and langue was made by .

A. Halliday

B. Chomsky

C. Bloomfield

D. Saussure

21. refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation. (07)

A. Phonology

B. Morphology

C. Semantics

D. Sociolinguistics

22. The distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT .

A. lexical

B. syntactic

C. phonological

D. psycholinguistic

23. The word tail once referred to “the tail of a horse”, but now it is used to mean

“ the tail of any animal”. This is an example of .

A. widening of meaning

B. narrowing of meaning

C. meaning shift

D. loss of meaning

24. Which of the following is NOT a design features of human language? (08)

A. Arbitrariness.

B. Displacement.

C. Duality.

D. Diachronicity.

25. What type of sentence is “ Mark likes fiction, but Tim is interested in poetry.”?

A. A simple sentence.

B. A coordinate sentence.