[专八]专八人文知识：语言学部分精选试题.

专八人文知识：语言学部分精选试题


　　本文是根据最新专八考试大纲针对人文知识的要求，从语言学内容精选出的考前自测试题。

　　1.Which of the following statements about language is NOT true?
　　A. Language is a system B. Language is symbolic
　　C. Animals also have language D. Language is arbitrary

　　2.Which of the following features is NOT one of the design features of language?
　　A. Symbolic B. Dual C. Productive D. Arbitrary 来源：www.xuhy.com

　　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 来源：www.xuhy.com

　　5.According to Chomsky, which is the ideal user's internalized knowledge of his language?
　　A. competence B. parole C. performance D. langue

　　6.The function of the sentence "A nice day, isn't it?" is        .
　　A. informative B. phatic C. directive D. performative 来源：www.xuhy.com

　　7.Articulatory phonetics mainly studies              .
　　A. the physical properties of the sounds produced in speech
　　B. the perception of sounds
　　C. the combination of sounds
　　D. the production of sounds 来源：www.xuhy.com

　　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 来源：www.xuhy.com

　　9.Which is the branch 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. Pragmatics

　　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 is an indispensable part of a syllable?
　　A. Coda B. Onset C. Stem D. Peak 来源：www.xuhy.com

　　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 formed?
　　A. Morphology B. Syntax C. Phonology D. Semantics 来源：www.xuhy.com

　　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 来源：www.xuhy.com

　　17.Which of the following sounds does not belong to the allomorphs of the English plural morpheme ?
　　A. [s] B. [iz] C. [ai] D. [is] 来源：www.xuhy.com

　　18.All words contain a              .
　　A. root morpheme B. bound morpheme C. prefix D. suffix 来源：www.xuhy.com

　　19.The relationship between "fruit" and "apple" is
　　A. homonymy B. hyponymy C. polysemy D. synonymy

　　20.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 来源：www.xuhy.com

　　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."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, isn't it?
　　- And Rome is in Romania, I suppose.
　　The second person violates the
　　A. Quantity Maxim B. Quality Maxim C. Relation Maxim D. Manner Maxim

　　27.The maxim of requires that a participant's contribution be relevant to the conversation.
　　A. quantity B. quality C. manner D. relation









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