1：[单选题]The syllabic structure of the word "children" is ______.
A:CVCCVC
B:CCVCCCVC
C:CCVCCVC
D:CVVCCVC
参考答案：A
2：[单选题]There are ______ morphemes in the word "policemen".
A: two
B:three
C:four
D:five
参考答案：B
3：[单选题]Which of the following statements is FALSE:
A:Language is just for communication.
B:Language is one of many ways in which we experience the world.
C: Language is a sign system.
D:Language is arbitrary and conventional.
参考答案：A
4：[单选题]Of the following sounds, ______ is a rounded vowel.
A:[au]
B: [u:]
C:[ju:]
D:[e]
参考答案：B
5：[单选题]_____ are produced when the nasal passage is opened by lowering the soft palate ant the back of the throat and the air is allowed to pass through it.
A:Semi-vowels
B:Affricates
C:Nasals
D:Glides
参考答案：C
6：[单选题]_____ studies the changes in language and language use with respect to social factors. A:Sociolinguistics
B:Comparative linguistics
C:Syntax
D:Computational linguistics
参考答案：A
7：[单选题]A ______ is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an affix can be added.
A:root
B:free morpheme
C:stem
D:suffix
参考答案：C
8：[单选题]Which one of the following statements does not account for the primacy of speech over writing in linguistic analysis? _______
A:Speech existed long before writing systems came into being.
B:Speech is more complex than writing.
C:Genetically children learn to speak before learning to write.
D: Written forms just represent in this way or that the speech sounds.
参考答案：B
9：[单选题]Foreign language learners’ errors may be caused by ________.
A:borrowing patterns from the mother tongue
B:extending patterns form the target language, e.g. by analogy
C:expressing meanings using the words and grammar which are already known
D:all the above three
参考答案：D
10：[单选题]Language serves the ________ function when it is used to express the speaker’s feeling or attitude or to arouse a certain feeling or attitude in the hearer.
A: phatic
B:informative
C:emotive
D:directive
参考答案：C
11：[单选题]By _____, we mean language can refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker.
A:cultural transmission
B: interchangeability
C:displacement
D:creativity
参考答案：C
12：[单选题]When language is used for establishing an atmosphere or maintaining social contact rather than for exchanging information or ideas, it serves a _____ function.
A:expressive
B:evocative
C:performative
D:phatic
参考答案：D
13：[单选题]The branch of linguistic study called _____ is concerned with how speakers use the sentences of a language to achieve effective and successful communication.
A:sociolinguistics
B:pragmatics
C:syntax
D:computational linguistics
参考答案：B
14：[单选题]_____ is the study of meaning in language.
A:Syntax
B:Applied linguistics
C:Morphology
D:Semantics
参考答案：D
15：[单选题]Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.
A：False
B：True
参考答案：B
16：[单选题]Language is said to be arbitrary because there is no logical connection between _____ and meanings.
A：sense
B：sounds
C：objects
D：ideas
参考答案：B
17：[判断题]Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive.
参考答案：错误
18：[判断题]A diachronic study of language is the description of language at some point in time. 参考答案：错误
19：[单选题]Modern linguistics regards the written language as _____.
A：primary
B：better
C：secondary
D：unchangeable
参考答案：C
20：[判断题]Modern linguistics is different from traditional grammar.
参考答案：正确
21：[判断题]The distinction between competence and performance was proposed by F. de Saussure.
参考答案：错误
22：[单选题]If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be ______.
A：prescriptive
B：analytic
C：descriptive
D：linguistic
参考答案：C
23：[单选题]Which of the following is not a design feature of human language?
A：Arbitrariness
B：Displacement
C：Duality
D：Meaningfulness
参考答案：D
1：[判断题]All normal children have equal ability to acquire their first language.
参考答案：正确
2：[单选题]In first language acquisition, imitation plays ___.
A：a minor role
B：a significant role
C：a basic role
D： no role
参考答案：A
3：[单选题]_____ are often thought to be the smallest meaningful units of language by the linguists.
A：Words
B：Morphemes
C：Phonemes
D：Sentences
参考答案：B
4：[单选题]Bound morphemes are those that ____.
A： have to be used independently
B：can not be combined with other morphemes
C：can stand as words on their own
D： have to be combined with other morphemes
参考答案：D
5：[单选题]The meaning carried by the inflectional morpheme is _____.
A：lexical
B：morphemic
C：grammatical
D：semantic
参考答案：C
6：[单选题]A ____ vowel is one that is produced with the front part of the tongue maintaining the highest position.
A：back
B：central
C：front
D：middle
参考答案：C
7：[判断题]Sense is concerned with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience, while the reference deals with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.
参考答案：错误
8：[单选题]The sound /f/ is ____.
A：voiced palatal affricate
B：voiced alveolar stop
C：voiceless velar fricative
D：voiceless labiodental fricative
参考答案：D
9：[单选题]Since /p/ and /b/ are phonetically similar, occur in the same environments and they can distinguish meaning, they are said to be _____.
A：in phonemic contrast
B：in complementary distribution
C：the allophones
D：minimal pair
参考答案：A
10：[单选题]The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by “copying” a feature of a sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones ______.
A：identical
B：same
C：exactly alike
D：similar
参考答案：D
11：[单选题]____ is a voiced alveolar stop.
A：/z/
B：/d/
C：/k/
D：/b/
参考答案：B
12：[单选题]The sounds produced without the vocal cords vibrating are ____ sounds.
A：voiceless
B：voiced
C：vowel
D：consonantal
参考答案：A
13：[单选题]According to Grice’s theory, a conversational implicature arises when the cooperative principle and its maxims are _______.
A:strictly observed
B:secretly and deliberately violated
1：[单选题]The syllabic structure of the word "children" is ______.
A:CVCCVC
B:CCVCCCVC
C:CCVCCVC
D:CVVCCVC
参考答案：A
2：[单选题]There are ______ morphemes in the word "policemen".
A: two
B:three
C:four
D:five
参考答案：B
3：[单选题]Which of the following statements is FALSE:
A:Language is just for communication.
B:Language is one of many ways in which we experience the world.
C: Language is a sign system.
D:Language is arbitrary and conventional.
参考答案：A
4：[单选题]Of the following sounds, ______ is a rounded vowel.
A:[au]
B: [u:]
C:[ju:]
D:[e]
参考答案：B
5：[单选题]_____ are produced when the nasal passage is opened by lowering the soft palate ant the back of the throat and the air is allowed to pass through it.
A:Semi-vowels
B:Affricates
C:Nasals
D:Glides
参考答案：C
6：[单选题]_____ studies the changes in language and language use with respect to social factors. A:Sociolinguistics
B:Comparative linguistics
C:Syntax
D:Computational linguistics
参考答案：A
7：[单选题]A ______ is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an affix can be added.
A:root
B:free morpheme
C:stem
D:suffix
参考答案：C
8：[单选题]Which one of the following statements does not account for the primacy of speech over writing in linguistic analysis? _______
A:Speech existed long before writing systems came into being.
B:Speech is more complex than writing.
C:Genetically children learn to speak before learning to write.
D: Written forms just represent in this way or that the speech sounds.
参考答案：B
9：[单选题]Foreign language learners’ errors may be caused by ________.
A:borrowing patterns from the mother tongue
B:extending patterns form the target language, e.g. by analogy
C:expressing meanings using the words and grammar which are already known
D:all the above three
参考答案：D
10：[单选题]Language serves the ________ function when it is used to express the speaker’s feeling or attitude or to arouse a certain feeling or attitude in the hearer.
A: phatic
B:informative
C:emotive
D:directive
参考答案：C
11：[单选题]By _____, we mean language can refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker.
A:cultural transmission
B: interchangeability
C:displacement
D:creativity
参考答案：C
12：[单选题]When language is used for establishing an atmosphere or maintaining social contact rather than for exchanging information or ideas, it serves a _____ function.
A:expressive
B:evocative
C:performative
D:phatic
参考答案：D
13：[单选题]The branch of linguistic study called _____ is concerned with how speakers use the sentences of a language to achieve effective and successful communication.
A:sociolinguistics
B:pragmatics
C:syntax
D:computational linguistics
参考答案：B
14：[单选题]_____ is the study of meaning in language.
A:Syntax
B:Applied linguistics
C:Morphology
D:Semantics
参考答案：D
15：[单选题]Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.
A：False
B：True
参考答案：B
16：[单选题]Language is said to be arbitrary because there is no logical connection between _____ and meanings.
A：sense
B：sounds
C：objects
D：ideas
参考答案：B
17：[判断题]Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive.
参考答案：错误
18：[判断题]A diachronic study of language is the description of language at some point in time. 参考答案：错误
19：[单选题]Modern linguistics regards the written language as _____.
A：primary
B：better
C：secondary
D：unchangeable
参考答案：C
20：[判断题]Modern linguistics is different from traditional grammar.
参考答案：正确
21：[判断题]The distinction between competence and performance was proposed by F. de Saussure.
参考答案：错误
22：[单选题]If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be ______.
A：prescriptive
B：analytic
C：descriptive
D：linguistic
参考答案：C
23：[单选题]Which of the following is not a design feature of human language?
A：Arbitrariness
B：Displacement
C：Duality
D：Meaningfulness
参考答案：D
1：[判断题]All normal children have equal ability to acquire their first language.
参考答案：正确
2：[单选题]In first language acquisition, imitation plays ___.
A：a minor role
B：a significant role
C：a basic role
D： no role
参考答案：A
3：[单选题]_____ are often thought to be the smallest meaningful units of language by the linguists.
A：Words
B：Morphemes
C：Phonemes
D：Sentences
参考答案：B
4：[单选题]Bound morphemes are those that ____.
A： have to be used independently
B：can not be combined with other morphemes
C：can stand as words on their own
D： have to be combined with other morphemes
参考答案：D
5：[单选题]The meaning carried by the inflectional morpheme is _____.
A：lexical
B：morphemic
C：grammatical
D：semantic
参考答案：C
6：[单选题]A ____ vowel is one that is produced with the front part of the tongue maintaining the highest position.
A：back
B：central
C：front
D：middle
参考答案：C
7：[判断题]Sense is concerned with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience, while the reference deals with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.
参考答案：错误
8：[单选题]The sound /f/ is ____.
A：voiced palatal affricate
B：voiced alveolar stop
C：voiceless velar fricative
D：voiceless labiodental fricative
参考答案：D
9：[单选题]Since /p/ and /b/ are phonetically similar, occur in the same environments and they can distinguish meaning, they are said to be _____.
A：in phonemic contrast
B：in complementary distribution
C：the allophones
D：minimal pair
参考答案：A
10：[单选题]The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by “copying” a feature of a sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones ______.
A：identical
B：same
C：exactly alike
D：similar
参考答案：D
11：[单选题]____ is a voiced alveolar stop.
A：/z/
B：/d/
C：/k/
D：/b/
参考答案：B
12：[单选题]The sounds produced without the vocal cords vibrating are ____ sounds.
A：voiceless
B：voiced
C：vowel
D：consonantal
参考答案：A
13：[单选题]According to Grice’s theory, a conversational implicature arises when the cooperative principle and its maxims are _______.
A:strictly observed
B:secretly and deliberately violated