專八人文知識：語言學(xué)部分精選試題

1、專八人文知識：語言學(xué)部分精選試題 本文是根據(jù)最新專八考試大綱針對人文知識的要求，從語言學(xué)內(nèi)容精選出的考前自測試題。 1.which of the following statements about language is not true? a. language is a system b. language is symbolicc. animals also have language d. language is arbitrary 2.which of the following features is not one of the design features of langu

2、age? a. symbolic b. dual c. productive d. arbitrary 3.what is the most important function of language? a. interpersonal b. phatic c. informative d. metalingual 4.who put forward the distinction between langue and parole? a. saussure b. chomsky c. halliday d. anonymous 5.according to chomsky, which i

3、s the ideal users internalized knowledge of his language? a. competence b. parole c. performance d. langue 6.the function of the sentence a nice day, isnt it? is . a. informative b. phatic c. directive d. performative 7.articulatory phonetics mainly studies . a. the physical properties of the sounds

4、 produced in speech b. the perception of sounds c. the combination of sounds d. the production of sounds 8.the distinction between vowels and consonants lies in . a. the place of articulation b. the obstruction of airstream c. the position of the tongue d. the shape of the lips 9.which is the branch

5、 of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transcription? a. phonetics b. phonology c. semantics d. pragmatics 10.which studies the sound systems in a certain language? a. phonetics b. phonology c. semantics d. pr

6、agmatics 11.minimal pairs are used to . a. find the distinctive features of a language b. find the phonemes of a language c. compare two words d. find the allophones of language 12.usually, suprasegmental features include,length and pitch. a. phoneme b. speech sounds c. syllables d. stress 13.which

7、is an indispensable part of a syllable? a. coda b. onset c. stem d. peak 14.which is the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and content? a. word b. morpheme c. allomorph d. root 15.which studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are form

8、ed? a. morphology b. syntax c. phonology d. semantics 16.lexeme is . a. a physically definable unit b. the common factor underlying a set of forms c. a grammatical unit d. an indefinable unit 17.which of the following sounds does not belong to the allomorphs of the english plural morpheme ? a. s b.

9、iz c. ai d. is 18.all words contain a . a. root morpheme b. bound morpheme c. prefix d. suffix 19.the relationship between fruit and apple isa. homonymy b. hyponymy c. polysemy d. synonymy 20.the part of the grammar that represents a speakers knowledge of the structure of phrases and sentences is ca

10、lled . a. lexicon b. morphology c. syntax d. semantics 21.which of the following items is not one of the grammatical categories of english pronouns? a. gender b. number c. case d. voice 22.the pair of words lend and borrow are a. gradable opposites b. converse opposites c. co-hyponyms d. synonyms 23

11、.big and small are a pair of opposites. a. complementary b. gradable c. complete d. converse 24.according to c. morris and r. carnap, which is studies the relationship between symbols and their interpreters? a. syntax b. semantics c. pragmatics d. sociolinguistics 25.there are deixis in the sentence she has sold it here yesterday. a. 3 b. 4 c. 5 d. 6 26.in the following conversation: - beirut is in peru, isnt it? - and rome is in romania, i suppose. the second person violates the a. quantity maxim b.