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英语语言学
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1 、 单选题
How is the word “hibernate” formed, which means “to ignore friends when you
start dating a new boyfriend or girlfriend”?
A ： through blending
B ： through compounding
C ： through derivation
D ： through conversion
2 、 单选题
This phenomenon is known as _____.
A ： semantic shift
B ： semantic broadening
C ： semantic elevation
D ： semantic narrowing
3 、 单选题
Language is said to be arbitrary because there is no logical connection between _____
and meanings.
A ： sound
B ： sense
C ： ideas
D ： objects
4 、 单选题
Which of the following is an example of clipping?
A ： condo
B ： D-Day
C ： netizen
D ： ISIS5 、 单选题
Of the consonants /p/, /t/, /k/, /f/, /m/, /z/ and /g/, which has the features of voiceless
and velar?
A ： /k/
B ： /p/
C ： /g/
D ： /t/
6 、 单选题
Derivational morpheme contrasts sharply with inflectional morpheme in that the
former changes the _____ while the latter does not.
A ： meaning
B ： word class
C ： form
D ： speech sound
7 、 单选题
By saying “You have left the door wide open”, a speaker might be performing the
three acts: locutionary, 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
8 、 单选题
Which of the following words are formed by blending?
A ： girlfriend
B ： television
C ： smog
D ： bunch
9 、 单选题
According to the conversation maxim of _____ suggested by Grice, one should speak
truthfully.
A ： quantity
B ： quality
C ： relevance
D ： manner10 、 单选题
Phrase structure rules allow us to better understand _____.
A ： how people produce and recognize possible sentences
B ： what constitutes the grammaticality of strings of words
C ： how words and phrases form sentences
D ： All of the above
11 、 单选题
_____ is the smallest meaningful unit of language.
A ： phoneme
B ： syllable
C ： Morpheme
D ： vowel
12 、 单选题
Which of the following are homographs?
A ： lead, lead
B ： rest, wrest
C ： lie, lie
D ： beat, bit
13 、 单选题
Which of the following is true of an allophone?
A ： phone can be the allophone of all English vowel phonemes.
B ： There are no restrictions on the distribution of an allophone.
C ： There is no possibility of an allophone becoming a phoneme.
D ： An allophone changes the meaning of the word.
14 、 单选题
The maxim of _____ requires that a participant’s contribution be relevant to the
conversation.
A ： quantity
B ： quality
C ： manner
D ： relation
15 、 单选题
“_____” is often understood as a language system between the target language andthe learner’s native language.
A ： Input Hypothesis
B ： Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
C ： Interlanguage
D ： Contrastive Analysis
16 、 单选题
The semantic relation between vegetable and cabbage is _____.
A ： hyponymy
B ： meronymy
C ： antonymy
D ： homonymy
17 、 单选题
Which of the following words is formed by the process of blending?
A ： WTO
B ： Motel
C ： Bookshelf
D ： red-faced
18 、 单选题
They are represented by _____ respectively.
A ： synonymy, antonymy, and hyponymy
B ： synonymy, hyponymy, and antonymy
C ： antonymy, synonymy, and hyponymy
19 、 单选题
The branch of linguistics that studies the systems and patterns of speech sounds in a
language is called _____.
A ： acoustics
B ： phonology
C ： phonetics
D ： articulation
20 、 单选题
Nouns, verbs and adjectives can be classified as _____.
A ： lexical words
B ： grammatical words
C ： function words
D ： form words21 、 单选题
Of the consonants /p/, /t/, /k/, /f/, /m/, /z/ and /g/, which has the features of voiceless
and velar?
A ： /k/
B ： /p/
C ： /g/
D ： /t/
22 、 单选题
Which is not the feature of language?
A ： rbitrariness
B ： Duality
C ： reativity
D ： Replacement
23 、 单选题
Point out which item does not fall under the same category as the rest, and explain
the reason in ONE sentence.
A ： resolution
B ： resident
C ： restart
D ： resignation
24 、 单选题
Which of the following is different from the others in terms of word formation?
A ： in-born.
B ： cut-up.
C ： head-on.
D ： respectable.
25 、 单选题
_____ is made up from the first letters of the name of an organization, which has a
heavily modified headword.
A ： Category
B ： Synonoymy
C ： Antonymy
D ： Acronym26 、 单选题
_____ refers to the obstruction of the air stream caused by the tongue tip or blade and
the alveolar ridge, such as in the production of [t].
A ： Stop
B ： Dental
C ： Alveolar
D ： Glide
27 、 单选题
What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study of
meaning _____ is considered.
A ： speech act
B ： practical usage
C ： context
D ： reference
28 、 单选题
Which of the following pairs of words has the same sense relation?
A ： Vowel and consonant
B ： Mouth and tongue
C ： Lexicon and word
D ： Number and gender
29 、 单选题
_____ other than compounds may be divided into roots and affixes.
A ： Polymorphemic words
B ： ound morphemes
C ： Free morphemes
30 、 单选题
Which of the following is NOT a suprasegrnental feature?
A ： Pitch
B ： Stress
C ： Tone
D ： Intonation
31 、 单选题
_____ refers to relations of meaning that exist within the text, and that define it as atext.
A ： greement
B ： Cohesion
C ： Recursiveness
D ： Embedding
32 、 单选题
_____ construction is one whose distribution is functionally equivalent to that of one
or more of its constituents, i.e., a word or a groups of words, which serves as a
definable Center or Head.
A ： Constituent
B ： Endocentric
C ： Exocentric
D ： Connective
33 、 单选题
Syntax relations can be analysed into three kinds, namely, positional relations,
relations of substitutability and relations of _____.
A ： coherence
B ： unity
C ： co-occurrence
D ： reference
34 、 单选题
One is the signifier, the other is called the _____.
A ： significant
B ： signified
C ： sign
D ： index
35 、 单选题
According to Chomsky, which is the ideal user’s internalized knowledge of his
language?
A ： competence
B ： parole
C ： performance
D ： langue
36 、 单选题
Which of the following is NOT a process of the lexical change?A ： INVENTION.
B ： ACRONYM.
C ： LEXICON.
37 、 单选题
The part of the grammar that represents a speaker’s knowledge of the structure of
phrases and sentences is called _____.
A ： lexicon
B ： morphology
C ： syntax
D ： semantics
