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Ⅰ. Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A, B, C or D in the brackets.(2′*10=20) 1. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human language is ______. ??A. arbitrary? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?B. non-arbitrary??C. logical? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ???D. non-productive 3. The description of a language as it changes through time is a _______study.A. comparative? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ???B. diachronicC. up-to-date? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??? D. descriptive4.In terms of the place of articulation, the following sounds [t][d][s][z][n] share the feature of _______. A. palatal? ? B. alveolarC. bilabial? ? D. dental5. Of the following sound combinations, only _______ is permissible according to the sequential rules in English. _______.??A.kibl? ?? ?? ?? ?B.bkil? ?? ?? ?? ?C.ilkb? ?? ?? ? D.ilbk6. _______is not a suprasegmental feature. A. Aspiration? ?? ???B. IntonationC. Stress? ?? ?? ?? ?D. Tone7. The level of syntactic representation that exists before movement takes place is commonly termed the ______.??A. phrase structure? ?? ?? ?? ???B. surface structure??C. syntactic structure? ?? ?? ? D. deep structure 8. Some Southern learners of English in China tend to say “night” as “light”. This shows:??_______. ??A. They cannot pronounce/n/? ?? ???B. Interlangue interference because there is not the sound /n/in their mother tongue??C. The teachers do not have a good teaching method??D. They do not like to pronounce nasal sounds 9. What the element ‘-es’ indicates is third person singular,??present tense, the element ‘-ed’ past tense, and ‘-ing’ progressive aspect.??Since they are the smallest unit of language and meaningful, they are also _______. A. derivational?morpheme ?? ?? ?? ? ? B. free morphemes C. allophones? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ? ? D. inflectional morphemes10. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have