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Part II. Multiple-choice questions. Choose the best answer for the following questions. (10%, 1% each item)The distinction between langue and parole was proposed by _____.A. JacobsonB. BloomfieldC. SaussureD. ChomskyThat it is wrong to split an infinitive is an example of _____ rules.A. prescriptive B. descriptive C. transformational D. functional Onecriteria of distinguishing different consonants is ______.A. the height of tongue raising B. manner of articulation C. obstruction of airflow D. total stopping of airWhich of the following sounds is described as “voiced bilabial stop”?___________.A. [b] B. [z] C. [g] D. [l]Which of the following words contains NO inflectional suffix?___________.A. fastest B. darken C. easier D. studiesGood: Bad is an example of _____.A. gradableantonymyB. relationalantonymyC. complementary antonymy D. complete antonymyIn the sentence “The hunter killed the lion with a gun” ,the thematic role of “a gun” is ______.A. agent B. patient C. experiencer D. instrument8. In English, the part of speech of a compound word is usually determined by ___________.A. the rightmost morpheme B. the leftmost morpheme C. bound morpheme D. free morpheme9. In terms of the place of articulation, the sounds [t], [s] and [n] share the feature of ________.A. palatalB. alveolarC.bilabialD. dental10. The absence of a word in a particular place in a semantic field of a language is called _______. A. aphasia B. lexical gap C. speech error D. semantic fieldII. True or False questions. Decide whether the following statements are True or False.(10%, 1% each item)A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language by Quirk et al. is a synchronic study of language. The word “in” is an open class word.?Chinese is a tone language.The word “above” includes 2 syllables, in which the sound [b] is the coda of the first syllable.The semantic relationship between the two sentences “John’s son is an engineer”