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全国2013年1月高等教育自学考试 现代语言学试题 课程代码：00830 请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。 选择题部分 注意事项： 　　1.答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。 　　2.每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。 Ⅰ. Directions： Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and blacken the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (2%×10=20%) 1. Which of the following does NOT account for the fact that modern linguistics gives priority to the spoken form of language? A. Speech precedes writing. B. There are still many languages that have only the spoken form. C. People were encouraged to imitate the “best authors” for language usage. D. The spoken is used for a wider range of purposes than the written. 2. In terms of manner of articulation, the English consonants ［s］ and ［z］ are classified as ______. A. liquids B. affricates C. stops D. fricatives 3. Which of the following words has four morphemes? A. Undoubtedly. B. Instrument. C. Astonishing. D. Thermometer. 4. The word very in the phrase “very curious of the answer” is a ______ in terms of X-bar schema. A. specifier B. head C. complement D. determiner 5. According to the way synonyms differ, which group of synonyms do “lift” and “elevator” illustrate? A. Dialectal synonyms. B. Stylistic synonyms. C. Collocational synonyms. D. Semantically different synonyms. 6. In the following dialogue between a student and a teacher, which maxim under CP is violated when the conversational implicature occurs? Student： New York is in New Zealand, isn’t it, Mr. Smith? Teacher： And Rome is in Romania, I suppose. A. Quantity. B. Quality. C. Relation. D. Manner. 7. All the following items except ______ are major sound changes English has undergone in its long historical development. A. apocope B. aspiration C. epenthesis D. metathesis 8. ______ variation in a person’s speech, or writing, usually ranges on a continuum from casual or colloquial to formal or polite acco