外国语学院语言学期末考试试题卷 .pdf

电子科技大学中山学院外国语学院考试试题卷 课程名称: 简明英语语言学教程 考试方式： 开卷 2019—20 学年第一学期期末考试 拟题人：曾跃都 日期：2019.11.15 班 级： 16 级 学 号： 姓 名： 注意事项：1.答案一律做在答题卷上。 2.请写上班级、学号和姓名。 I. Multiple choice(20%): Choose the one out of the four choices marked with A, B, C, and D that you think is the most proper explanation to complete the following sentences. Write the letter you’ve chosen on the answer sheet. 1.The famous quotation from Shakespeare’ s play Romeo and Juliet “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” well illustrates____C_. A. the universality of language B. the creative nature of language C. the arbitrary nature of language D. the big difference between human language and animal communication 2. 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__D__. A. phonemes B. phones C. allophones D. morphemes 3. Linguistics is the scientific study of____B_. A. a particular language B. human languages in general C. the English language D. the system of a particular language 4. Chomsky uses the term__A___to refer to the actual realization of a language user’s knowledge of the rules of his language in linguistic communication. A. performance B. competence C. parole D. langue 5. The description of a language as it changes through time is a_D____ study. A. comparative B. descriptive C. up-to-date D. diachronic 6. Of the following sound combinations, only_A____ is permissible according to the sequential rules in English. A. kibl B. bkil C. ilkb D. ilbk 1 7. The consonant [f] in English can be co