专八语言学选择题及答案.doc

专八语言学试题一
1.Linguisticsisthescientificstudyof__________.
A.aparticularlanguageB.theEnglishlanguage
C.humanlanguagesingeneralD.thesystemofaparticularlanguage
2.Theconsonant[f]inEnglishcanbecorrectlydescribedashavingthefollowingphoneticfeatures:__________.
A.voiceless,bilabial,stopB.voiceless,labiodental,fricative
C.voiced,bilabial,stopD.voiced,labiodental,fricative
3.Therearedifferenttypesofaffixesormorphemes.Theaffix"ed"intheword"learned"isknownasa(n)__________.
A.derivationalmorphemeB.freemorpheme
C.inflectionalmorphemeD.freeform
4.Inthephrasestructurerule"S→NPVP",thearrowcanbereadas__________.
A.isequaltoB.consistsofC.hasD.generates
5."Iboughtsomeroses"__________"Iboughtsomeflowers".
A.entailsB.presupposes
C.isinconsistentwithD.issynonymouswith
6.Y'sutteranceinthefollowingconversationexchangeviolatesthemaximof__________.
X:Whowasthatyouwerewithlastnight?
Y:Didyouknowthatyouwerewearingoddsocks?
A.qualityB.quantityC.relationD.manner
7.Changesinalanguagearechangesinthegrammarofthespeakersofthelanguage.Thismeansthatphonemes,__________,wordsandgrammaticalrulesmaybeborrowed,added,lostoraltered.
A.phrasesB.sentencesC.morphemesD.utterances
8.Inaspeechcommunitypeoplehavesomethingincommon__________alanguageoraparticularvarietyoflanguageandrulesforusingit.
A.sociallyB.linguisticallyC.culturallyD.pragmatically
9.Whichofthemajormentalfunctionslistedbelowisnotunderthecontrolofthelefthemisphereinmostpeople?__________.
A.languageandspeechB.visualandspatialskills
C.readingandwritingD.analyticreasoning
10.Ingeneral,the__________stagebeginsroughlyinthesecondhalfofthechild'ssecondyear.
A.babblingB.one-wordC.two-wordD.multiword
答案：1.C2.B3.C4.B5.A6.C7.C8.B9.B10.C
专八语言学试题二
1.ThefamousquotationfromShakespeare'splay“RomeoandJuliet”‘Arosebyanyothernamewouldsmellassweet’wellillustrates_______.()
A.theconventionalnatureoflanguageB.thecreativenatureoflanguage
C.theuniversalityoflanguage
D.thebigdifferencebetweenhumanlanguageandanimalcommunication
2.Ofthefollowingsoundcombinations,only_____