英语本科语言学复习资料答案.doc

英语本科语言学复习资料答案 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 blanks. (1% x 20 = 20%) 1. C 2.A 3. D 4. B 5. C 6. C 7.A 8. A 9. B 10. B 11. B 12. C 13. B 14. B 15. B 16. C 17.D 18.A 19. B 20. A 21. C 22. B 23. B 24. C 25. C 26.A? ?? ?27.B? ? 28.D 29.B 30.A 31.B 32.C II. Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in ONE word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given. (2%×5=10%) 1. coordinate? ? ?2. Interlanguage 3. synonyms 4. manner 5. inflectional 6. context 7. sound 8. Cooperative 9. allophone 10. Bound 11. descriptive 12. sense 13. compounding III Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement. (2% x 10 = 20%) 1. F. Symbol in this context refers to the linguistic elements like words or phrases. 2. F. In view of language as an effective means of communication, no single dialect, be it standard or nonstandard, is any more correct, any more logical, or any purer than any other dialect of the language. All dialects of a language are equally effective in expressing ideas. 3. F. Prefixes modify the meaning of the original word (stem), but usually do not change the part of speech. 4. T 5. F. Some utterances like Hi ! and Ouch! are not complete sentences. Good morning is an utterance, but it is not a sentence. 6. F. English is a language in which stress is free in that it is not fixed on any particular syllable of a word; its position varies from word to word. 7. T 8. T 9. F . Speech act theory is mainly studied in the field of pragmatics. 10. F. The meaning of an utterance, unlike that of a sentence, is concrete and context-dependent. 11. T 12. T 13. F.