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1.According to its________
A meaning
B function
C position
D sound
对的答案:C
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2.The sentence that has a NP and a VP can be shown in a _______ formula "S→NP VP".
A hierarchical
B linear
C treediagram
D vertical
对的答案:B
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3.Which of the following is NOT included in the advantages of a constituent structure tree?
A It reveals the linear word order of a sentence.
B It shows the hierarchical structure of a sentence.
C It illustrates the syntactic category of each structural constituent.
D It emphasizes the main suprasegmental features of a sentence.
对的答案:D
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4.Of the following items, which one does not belong to the same syntactic category?
A the student
B liked
C anidea
D the linguistic lecture
对的答案:B
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5.Most of the violations of the maxims of the CP give rise to________.
A breakdown of conversation
B confusion of one’s intention
C hostility between speakers and the listeners
D conversational implicatures
对的答案:D
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6.A: Would you like to come to our party tonight?/ B: I'm afraid I'm not feeling, so well today./ The implicature produced here is _______.
A I'll be glad to go to your party.
B Probably I'll be a little late because I'm not feeling well.
C I do not want to go to your party.
D I'll go there even though I am not feeling well today.
对的答案:C
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7.There are different types of affixes or morphemes. The affix “ed” in the word “learned” is known as a (an) _______、
A derivational morpheme
B free morpheme
C inflectional morpheme
D free form
对的答案:C
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8.By saying "We shall know a word by the company it keeps," John Firth, a British linguist, means that the real meaning of a word -____________.
A is determined by a dictionary
B is determined by a native speaker
C is determined by its context
D is determined by a linguist
对的答案:C
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9.________ is the study of how speakers of a language use sentences to effect successful communication、
A Semantics
B Pragmatics
C Sociolinguistics
D Psycholinguistics
对的答案:B
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10.The two words" collaborator" and "accomplice" are examples given to illustrate that synonyms may differ._____.
A in style
B in their emotive or evaluative meaning
C in their collocation
D slightly in what they mean
对的答案:B
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11.Bound morphemes do not include ________.
A roots
B prefixes
C suffixes
D words
对的答案:C
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12.Which of the following statements about Black English is untrue?
A Black English is an ethnic variety of the English language.
B Black English is one of the official languages of America.
C Black English has some vocabulary of its own.
D Black English has a number of distinctive features in its phonological, morphological and syn-tactic systems.
对的答案:B
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13.The basic unit in phonology is called ______; it is a unit that is of distinctive value.
A phone
B phoneme
C allophone
D phonetic transcription
对的答案:B
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14.Officially bilingual countries with two official languages for national or regional use do not include _______.
A Japan
B Canada
C Finland
D Belgium
对的答案:A
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15.By saying "You have left the door wide open," a speaker might be performing the three acts: locu-tionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary ________.
A at the same time
B one after another
C two first and then the other
D one first and then the other two
对的答案:A
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16.Which one of the following is not a common English address term?
A FirstName
B Titlealone
C Title+FirstName
D Kinterm
对的答案:C
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17.There are _______morphemes in the word denationalization.
A three
B four
C five
D six
对的答案:C
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18.According to its________
A meaning
B function
C position
D sound
对的答案:C
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19.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
C comparative
D historical comparative
对的答案:B
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20.Bound morphemes do not include ________.
A roots
B prefixes
C suffixes
D words
对的答案:D
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21.Such suffixes as " - able" and " - ment" in Modern English originally came from_______.
A French
B Old English
C Latin
D Greek
对的答案:A
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22.Which of the following words is entirely arbitrary?
A photo–copy
B cackle
C book
D rumble
对的答案:C
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23.The naming theory seems applicable to ________only.
A verbs
B adjectives
C adverbs
D nouns
对的答案:D
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24.Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This is what"_________" means.
A displacement
B cultural transmission
C duality
D productivity
对的答案:A
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25./ p / and / b / can occur in the same environments and they distinguish meaning、Therefore they are ______.
A in phonemic contrast
B in complementary distribution
C a minimal pair
D allophones
对的答案:A
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26.Which of the following can be said to be the smallest meaningful unit of language?
A Letters
B Morphemes
C Words
D Sentences
对的答案:B
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27.The classic semantic triangle fails to answer--------
A what precisely the link between the symbol and the concept is
B what symbol/form refers to
C what referent refers to
D what thought/reference refers to
对的答案:A
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28.According to sequential rules in English, which of the following combinations of sounds is Not pos-sible in English?
A bilk
B blik
C kilb
D Ibki
对的答案:D
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29._______ modify the meaning of the stem , but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.
A Affixes
B Prefixes
C Suffixes
D Inflectional morphemes
对的答案:B
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30.Which of the following statements is NOT used by the speaker to perform certain acts?
A “I name this ship Elizabeth.’’
B “I visited my uncle last Sunday.’’
C “I give and bequeath my watch to my brother.’’
D “I bet you sit pence it will rain tomorrow.’’
对的答案:B
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31.All the following statements concerning the nature of language change is true except-------
A language change is inevitable
B language change is abrupt
C language change is universal
D language change is extensive
对的答案:B
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32.Depending on specific contexts, "My bag is heavy", as an utterance, can mean all of the following except---- .
A “My bag is easy to carry.”
B “My bag is not easy to carry.”
C “Could you help me carry the bag?”
D “My bag is too heavy for you to carry.”
对的答案:A
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33.And today, the grammar taught to learners of a language is still basically——
A descriptive
B objective
C prescriptive
D analytical
对的答案:C
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34.Due to their recursive properties,_______generate infinite number of sentences, and sentences with infinite length.
A Phrase structure rules
B Transformational rules
C Adjacency Parameters
D Directionality Parameters
对的答案:A
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35.The fact that children acquire spoken language before they can read or write indicates that language is primary ______.
A vocal
B arbitrary
C human—specific
D written
对的答案:A
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36.Which of the following is the correct description of the English sound /k/ ?
A voiceless,velar,stop
B voiced,velar,stop
C voiceless,alveolar,stop
D voiced,alveolar,stop
对的答案:A
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37.The semantic triangle holds that the meaning of a word_______.
A is interpreted through the mediation of concept.
B is related to the thing it refers to.
C is the idea associated with that word in the minds of speakers.
D is the image it is represented in the mind.
对的答案:A
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38.When a sentence changes from a statement to a general/ special question, which movement is struc-turally required?
A NP–movement/WH-movement
B NP–movement/Aux-movement
C AUX-movement/WH–movement
D WH–movement/AUX-movement
对的答案:C
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39.What separated the period of Middle English from that of Modern English was _______.
A the Norman Conquest
B the influence of the French language
C the Europe renaissance movement
D the influence of Latin
对的答案:C
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40.The naming theory seems applicable to ________ only.
A verbs
B adjectives
C adverbs
D nouns
对的答案:D
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