英语语言学练习题

Middle-Term Test of Linguistics

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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%×10=20%)

1. As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for "correct" linguistic behavior, it is said to be ___.

A、 prescriptive

B、 sociolinguistic

C、 descriptive

D、 psycholinguistic

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

A、 mouth

B、 lips

C、 tongue

D、 vocal cords

3. The morpheme "vision" in the common word "television" is a(n) ___.

A、 bound morpheme

B、 bound form

C、 inflectional morpheme

D、 free morpheme

4. "Can I borrow your bike?" ___ "You have a bike."

A、 is synonymous with

B、 is inconsistent with

C、entails

D、 presupposes

5、The pair of words “lend”and “borrow”are ___.( )

A. gradable opposites

B. relational opposites

C. co-hyponyms

D. synonyms

6.The semantic components of the word “gentleman” can be expressed as

__.( )

A. +animate, +male, +human, -adult

B. +animate, +male, +human, +adult

C. +animate, -male, +human, -adult

D. +animate, -male, +human, +adult

7.The famous quotation from Shakespeare's play “Romeo and Juliet” ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’ well illustr ates _______.( )

A.the conventional nature of language

B.the creative nature of language

C.the universality of language

D.the big difference between human language and animal communication

8. Of the following sound combinations, only _______ is permissible according to the sequential rules in English.( )

A.kibl

B.bkil

C.ilkb

D.ilbk

9.The term _______ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages.

A.synchronic

B.diachronic

parative

D.historical comparative

10. ____ modify the meaning of the stem, but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.

A. Prefixes

B. Suffixes

C. Roots

D. Affixes

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. (2%×10=20%)

1. Chomsky defines "competence" as the ideal user's k of the rules of his language.

2. The four sounds /p/,/b/,/m/ and /w/ have one feature in common, i.e, they are all

b .

3. M is a branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.

4. The affix “-ish” in the word boyish conveys a g meaning.

5. B___________ morphemes are those that cannot be used independently but have to be combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word.