英语语言学试卷精粹（10套题）

Ⅰ.Directions:Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A,B,C or D in the brackets.(2%×10=20%)

1.The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human language is ______.

A. arbitrary B.non-arbitrary C. logical D.non-productive

2.All the back vowels in English are pronounced with rounded-lips,i.e. rounded, EXCEPT ______.

3.The level of syntactic representation that exists before movement takes place is commonly termed the ______. A.phrase structure B.surface structure C.syntactic structure D.deep structure

4.The theory of ______ accounts for the fact that noun phrases appear only in subject and object positions. A.Case Condition B.Adjacent Condition

C.parameter D.Adjacent parameters

5.The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called ______. A.polysemy B.hyponymy C.antonymy D.homonymy

6.The utterance \already working 25 hours a day,eight days a week.\violates the maxim of ______.

A.quality B.quantity C.relation D.manner

7.In first language acquisition children usually ______ grammatical rules from the linguistic information they hear. A.use B.accept C.generalize D.reconstruct

8.Standardization known as ______ is necessary in order to facilitate communications.

A.language

interpretation

B.language

identification

C.language choice D.language planning

9.Which of the following choices is not the key biological basis for human language acquisition? ______.

A.Cerebral cortex B.Neurons C.Eyes D.Angular gyrus

10.Basically all the following categories except ______ are always missing in the children's telegraphic speech stage. A.the copula verb \ B.inflectional morphemes

C.function words D.content words 第二部分 非选择题

Ⅱ.Directions:Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word,the first letter of which is already given as a clue.Note that you are to fill in ONE word only,and you are not allowed to change the letter given.(1%×10=10%)

11.Language exists in time and changes through time. The

description of a language at some point of time is called a _s_______ study of language.

12.An essential difference between consonants and vowels is whether the air coming up from the lungs meets with any _o________ when a sound is produced.

13.The morphemes that cannot be used by themselves, but must be combined with other morphemes to form words are called _b________ morphemes.

14.XP may contain more than just X.For example,the NP \Det being the _s________,N the head and S the complement.

15.According to Searle's classification of illocutionary acts,\should fall into the category of _d________.

16.Hyponymy is the relationship which obtains between specific and general lexical items.The word that is more