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新农大英语专业语言学考试题 1. Traditional grammar regards the ________ form of language as primary, not the spoken form. A. oral B. written C. writing D. vocal 2. The front, close, not rounded, lax vowel is _______. A. [?] B. [e] C. [i] D. [u] 3. The description of a language as it changes through time is a ______ study. A. synchronic B diachronic C. prescriptive D. comparative 4. Which of the following words is entirely arbitrary? A. tree B. crash C. typewriter D. bang 5. Hyponyms of the same ______ are co-hyponyms. A. word B. lexical item C. superordinate D. subordinate 6. A ___ in the embedded clause refers to the introductory word that introduces the embedded clause.? A. coordinator B. particle? C. preposition D. subordinator 7. The words 搒ea?and 搒ee?consist of _________.___ A. full homonyms B. complete homonyms C. homographs D. homophones 8. _______ is a typical tone language. A. French B. German C. English D. Chinese 9. _______ is not a suprasegmental feature. A. Aspiration牋牋牋牋B. Intonation C. Stress牋bedde牋牋牋牋牋D. Tone 10. The famous quotation from Shakespeares play 揜omeo and Juliet?慉 rose by any other name would smell as sweet?well illustrates _______.(???)? A. the conventional nature of language B. the creative nature of language ? C. the universality of language D. the big difference between human language and animal 11.Predication analysis is a way to analyze _______ meaning.? A. phoneme? ? ? ? ? B. word? ? ? ? ? ? C. phrase? ? ? ? ? D. sentence12.The sentence that has a NP and a VP can be shown in a _______ formula S→NP VP.(? ? ? )? A. hierarchical? ? B. linear? ? ? ? ? C. tree diagram? D. vertical 13. _______ analysis of an utterance will reveal what the speaker intends to do with it. A. pragmatic B. semantic C. syntactic D. phonetic 16. Transformational Generative Grammar was introduced by _______ in 1957. A. L. Bloomfield B. F. Saussure C. N. Chomsky