2004年英语语言学模拟试题.doc

外文学院2006—2007学年度第（一）学期期末考试 2004级英本《语言学概论》（必）试卷（A） 班别 姓名 学号 题号 I II III IV 总分 满分 20 10 10 60 100 得分 说明： 1、期考分笔试与论文写作（IV）两部分，这仅为笔试部分，占40%。 2、考试时间：120分钟。 Part A (30%; 40 minutes) I. Multiple choice: Choose the best answer to each of the following items. Put your response (the corresponding letter) on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 0.5 x 40 items) 1. The sentence A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. illustrates the _____ nature of language. A. symbolic B. conventional C. metaphorical D. flower 2. Which of the following is NOT one of the design features of human language? A. double articulation B. creativity C. displacement D. genetics 3. Which of the following is a front, close and short vowel? [u:] B. [a] C. [i] D. [u] 4. Which of the following forms a minimal pair? fear, pear B. tip, pit C. food, foot D. heat, hit 5. In English, if three consonants should cluster together at the beginning of a word, the combination should obey the following rules except _____: A. The first phoneme must be /s/. B. The second phoneme must be /p/ or /t/ or /k/. C. The third phoneme must be /l/ or /r/ or /w/. D. The phoneme /h/ can replace the second phoneme if it is followed by /w/. 6. Which of the following underlined parts is a bound morpheme? A. scholarship B. classroom C. policeman D. childlike 7. Which of the following words does NOT belong to the open classes? A. enjoy B. happy C. as D. beautifully 8. The word impossibility consists of _____ syllables as against _____ morphemes. A. six/three B. five/two C. six/four D. five/five 9. For the word to in It is necessary to know yourself., we can say _____. A. it has a lexical meaning B. it is an inflectional morpheme C. it is a derivational morpheme D. it has a grammatical meaning as an infinitive marker 10. In TG, S-structure represents _____ structure. A. surface B. sentence C. sp